Kinnah Phiri
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | October 30, 1954 | ||
Place of birth | Blantyre, Malawi | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Jwaneng Galaxy (Head coach) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1973–1981 | Big Bullets | ||
1982–1984 | Manzini Wanderers | ||
National team | |||
1973–1981 | Malawi[1] | 117 | (71) |
Teams managed | |||
2004–2006 | Big Bullets | ||
2006–2007 | Malawi (caretaker) | ||
2007–2008 | Free State Stars | ||
2009–2013 | Malawi | ||
2014 | Free State Stars | ||
2014–2015 | Free State Stars | ||
2017 | Mochudi Centre Chiefs | ||
2017– | Jwaneng Galaxy | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Kinnah Phiri (born 30 October 1954) is a Malawian football coach and former player who is the head coach of Jwaneng Galaxy.
Playing career[]
Born in Blantyre, Kinnah began playing football for local side Big Bullets F.C., and in 1982 was offered a contract by UAE club Sharjah SC. He was not allowed to leave the country, but he moved to Swaziland to play for Manzini Wanderers where he would finish his playing career.[2]
Phiri was the inspiration behind the Malawi national football team's finest hours in the late 1970s when Malawi twice won the East and Central Africa Challenge Cup. He scored 71 goals in 115 games.[3]
In his club career he stated that he had scored over 700 goals.[4]
Coaching career[]
- Bakili Bullets, Malawi (Head coach)
- Free State Stars, South African Premier Soccer League (Head coach)
- Malawi U-23 (Head coach)
- Malawi (Head coach)[5]
Career statistics[]
International[]
- Scores and results Malawi's goal tally first.
See also[]
- List of top international men's football goalscorers by country
- List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps
- List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals
References[]
- ^ Mamrud, Roberto. "Kinnah Phiri". RSSSF.
- ^ "Malawi football back on the map". Africa News. 25 November 2008. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008.
- ^ Andrews, Crispin (3 April 2017). "The 12 players who've scored more international goals than Cristiano Ronaldo". FourFourTwo. Archived from the original on 29 June 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ "How Kinnah Phiri rose from village boy to Malawi's greatest legend – Panafricanfootball".
- ^ Kinnah promises Malawians race to Angola will go right down to the wire
External links[]
- Kinnah Phiri – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Kinnah Phiri at Footballdatabase
Categories:
- 1954 births
- Living people
- People from Blantyre
- Malawi international footballers
- Nyasa Big Bullets FC players
- Manzini Wanderers F.C. players
- Free State Stars F.C. managers
- Malawi national football team managers
- Malawian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Eswatini
- Malawian expatriate sportspeople in Eswatini
- Malawian footballers
- Malawian football managers
- Expatriate soccer managers in South Africa
- 2010 Africa Cup of Nations managers
- FIFA Century Club
- Association football forwards
- Malawian football biography stubs