Kinnah Phiri (born 30 October 1954) is a Malawian
football
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coach and former player who most recently coached
Jwaneng Galaxy. He is the Deputy Director of Sports in the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
He is the all-time top goalscorer for the
Malawi national team, having scored 71 goals in 117 games.
Playing career
Born in
Blantyre
Blantyre is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with a population of 800,264 . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, Lilongwe. It is ...
, Kinnah began playing football for local side
Big Bullets
Nyasa Big Bullets is a Malawian professional association football club based in Blantyre, currently playing in the TNM Super League, the top division of Malawian football. The club was formerly known as Bata Bullets, Total Big Bullets and Bakil ...
, 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
Eswatini, formally the Kingdom of Eswatini, also known by its former official names Swaziland and the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by South Africa on all sides except the northeast, where ...
to play for
Manzini Wanderers where he would finish his playing career.
Phiri was the inspiration behind the
Malawi national 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.
In his club career, he stated that he had scored over 700 goals.
Coaching career
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Bakili Bullets, Malawi (head coach)
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Free State Stars, South African
Premier Soccer League
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(head coach)
*Malawi U23 (head coach)
*Malawi (head coach)
Career statistics
:''Scores and results list Malawi's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Phiri goal.''
See also
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List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps
In association football, a cap is traditionally awarded in international football to a player making an official appearance for their national team. This article lists all men's football players who have played in 100 or more official internat ...
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List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals
In total, 84 male Football player, footballers to date have scored at least 50 goals with their national team at senior level, according to FIFA documents, RSSSF and International Federation of Football History & Statistics, IFFHS statistics. S ...
References
External links
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1954 births
Living people
Footballers from Blantyre
Malawi men's 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 men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Eswatini
Malawian expatriate sportspeople in Eswatini
Malawian men's footballers
Malawian football managers
Expatriate soccer managers in South Africa
2010 Africa Cup of Nations managers
FIFA Men's Century Club
Men's association football forwards
Long stubs with short prose