South Africa national team legend Benni McCarthy is one of the options who has expressed interest in the head coach position of the Kenya national football team, Pan-Africa Football has learned.
The talks are on and McCarthy, who has made his intentions known through his agent, is one of three options who showed interest for the role.
Alongside McCarthy other coaches have also shown interest including a former assistant coach of Nigeria, a Portuguese national, and former Harambee Stars coach Antoine Hey. Hey was most recently with the Myanmar national team and previously coached the Harambee Stars in 2009 before walking out ahead of a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Nigeria due to disputes with the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) over team selection.
Our source confirms that there is a specific team looking into this matter though the FKF has yet to announce its official decision. Many reports are declaring that McCarthy will be appointed Kenya coach to begin his duties in January but this has not been confirmed.
McCarthy, the former Bafana Bafana star striker who enjoyed his best playing years with the likes of Ajax, FC Porto and Blackburn Rovers, was most recently a first-team coach with Manchester United for two years before departing at the end of the 2023-24 English Premier League season. The 47-year-old previously managed Cape Town City and AmaZulu over a five-year spell from 2017 to 2022 in the South African Premiership.
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