SOCCER PLAYER

Benni McCarthy

1977 - Today

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Benedict Saul McCarthy (born 12 November 1977) is a South African football coach and former player who was most recently a first-team coach at Manchester United. He previously worked as head coach of South African Premier Division team AmaZulu. A former forward, McCarthy is the South Africa national team's all-time top scorer with 31 goals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benni McCarthy has received more than 2,110,726 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Benni McCarthy is the 4,778th most popular soccer player (up from 4,846th in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 181st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Benni McCarthy ranks 4,778 out of 21,273. Before him are Walter Weiler, Humberto Tomasina, Lucas Ocampos, Alain Sutter, Ali Beratlıgil, and Taison. After him are Aloísio Pires Alves, Eric Dier, Atiba Hutchinson, Nelson López, Tim Howard, and Enrique Chazarreta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Benni McCarthy ranks 173. Before him are Kadri Simson, Samantha Morton, Mehdi Mahdavikia, Maitland Ward, Nicolas Kiefer, and Leo Franco. After him are Ryan Dunn, Park Yong-ha, Raúl Tamudo, Tobias Sammet, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Adam Darski.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Benni McCarthy ranks 156 out of 454. Before him are Doug Serrurier (1920), Gavin Hood (1963), Elsa Joubert (1922), J. L. B. Smith (1897), Cecil McMaster (1895), and Cariba Heine (1988). After him are Desiré Wilson (1953), Lesley-Ann Brandt (1981), Lucky Dube (1910), Yolandi Visser (1984), Candice Swanepoel (1988), and Richard Goldstone (1938).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In South Africa

Among soccer players born in South Africa, Benni McCarthy ranks 2. Before him are Bruce Grobbelaar (1957). After him are Gordon Hodgson (1904), Dimas (1969), Steven Pienaar (1982), Phil Masinga (1969), Lucas Radebe (1969), Siphiwe Tshabalala (1984), Mark González (1984), Hans Vonk (1970), Aaron Mokoena (1980), and Quinton Fortune (1977).

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