SA’s Benni McCarthy is one of the football minds entrusted with ending the Red Devils’ trophy drought.
South African football lovers have thirsted for a player in the mould of Benni McCarthy or Steven Pienaar to strut their stuff in the English top flight – the Premier League.
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“He has experience as a manager, he was a coach in the professional level and was a former striker – a really successful striker as well. He will focus on positioning and attacking. I’m not only for the strikers, but also the integration from the full-backs and midfielders,” Ten Hag said. “Hopefully this season we’re going to see a completely revived United, a hungry bunch of players and a team that’s going to be able to challenge to get into the Champions League and change the dynamics of the Manchester Citys and Liverpools,” he said.McCarthy was handed his first job as head coach by John Comitis at Cape Town City. It was a sweet reunion for the duo.
For the 2017/2018 campaign, the season-old Cape club announced McCarthy as head coach. In his first campaign he led them to the MTN8 final and a fifth-place league finish. The next season he went one better in both instances, finishing fourth in the league and winning the MTN8 to capture his first piece of silverware as a coach.
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