South Africa’s best number 9 was snubbed for the biggest showpiece on earth in his own country back in 2010. There were numerous reasons offered for his omission but in an interview with South African Football Journalists Association , McCarthy admitted that he still feels that pain of missing out of the 2010 World Cup.
“When I had conversations with Sam Allaydyrce that’s what he told me. He wanted a 90 minutes striker, he wanted a target man and I’m more of a luxury player. He said, I was more of a number 10. The enigmatic McCarthy competed in two World Cups in his glittering career. He scored in both spectacles in France 1998 and Japan/Korea in 2002.
“I think it was to get back at me. I don’t know if you can recall, there was a period when Carlos Alberto Parreira wanted to have a three month training camp in Brazil. First, he wanted to convince the European players.“The president of the club said that there was no way in hell that was going to happen. We were going to miss three months of action.
What does he says?
He got to a stage where he thought he was bigger than the National Team, just like how both Quinton Fortune and Steven Pienaar thought. Luckily some of us still remember this.
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