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Benni McCarthy missed out on playing the Fifa World Cup on home soil in South Africa in 2010.Image: ©Samuel Shivambu/BackpagePix
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Ten years since the 2010 World Cup: Benni says Parreira ‘wanted to get back at me’

Benni McCarthy has said that then-Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira made excuses to leave him out of the 2010 Fifa World Cup squad. McCarthy vehemently denied reports of the time that he and goalkeeper Rowen Fernandez had…

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