Benni McCarthy: Gun Shots And Gangster League

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Here it is: your Benni bonus, as promised. And you can believe me when I say that this one is a very, very special treat.He takes us back to his childhood in Hanover Park, a suburb of Cape Town dominated by crime. That is where it all began for Benni… and where it could all have ended, with Benni recalling the rampant gang culture and violence he grew up around.Make no mistake, this was was a dangerous place to live - and he tells the story of how his best friend, 11-year-old Reginald, was shot and killed while they played football together in the street.Benni reveals that, at first, he thought a good education - and not football - was his best chance of escape, but his sporting talent soon took over and he became a star in a newly-created Gangster League, playing “shoe-shine piano” football. Don’t worry, you’ll discover what that means.From his origin story, he ends this spectacular Big Interview by looking to the future, offering a glimpse of what Benni McCarthy the football manager will be like....

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1:06.1	riven and dominated by crime. That's the mean streets where it all began for Benny and where it could all have ended as Benny recalls the rampant gang culture and violence around which he grew up.
1:20.5	Make no mistake whatsoever this was a truly dangerous place to live and he tells the story of how his best friend 11 year old Reginald was shot and killed while they played football together in the street. That's how close Benny came to not
1:35.2	living this life and enjoying that career. He reveals that at first he thought a good education
1:40.4	not football was his best chance of escape but his sporting talent soon
1:45.5	took over and he became a star in a newly created gangster league yes you heard
1:50.7	me correctly the gangster League playing Shushine piano football.
1:56.0	Anybody? Don't worry. You will discover what that means.
2:01.0	From his origin story he ends this spectacular big interview by looking to the future
2:07.0	offering a glimpse of what Benny McCarthy the football manager might be like
2:12.0	and in our opinion that's surely when and not if he's put in
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