MacDonald "Scooter" Mukansi (born 26 May 1975 in

Boksburg Boksburg is a city on the East Rand of Gauteng province of South Africa. Gold was discovered in Boksburg in 1887. Boksburg was named after the State Secretary of the South African Republic, Willem Eduard Bok, W. Eduard Bok. The R29 (South A ...

) is a former

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player who played as a forward.FIFA 2002 website
(Accessed 11 July 2007)

Career

He played for a few clubs, including

Jomo Cosmos Jomo Cosmos is a South African soccer club based in Johannesburg that plays in the ABC Motsepe League. The club is owned and coached by South African football legend Jomo Sono. At the end of the 2021–22 National First Division season, the ...

Paralimni Paralimni () is a town within the Famagusta District of Cyprus, situated on the island's east coast. Since the Turkish invasion in 1974, it has increased in size and status, primarily due to the migration of refugees fleeing from the north. Ma ...

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. ''CSKA'' is an abbreviation for ''Central Sports Club of the Army'' ...

, Lokomotiv Sofia, and Manning Rangers. He then moved to India and joined

East Bengal Club East Bengal Club, commonly referred to as East Bengal (), is an Indian professional multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. It is best known for its professional men's association football, football team that competes in the Indian ...

Kolkata Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...

for the

2007–08 I-League The 2007–08 I-League kicked off on 24 November 2007 at the Fatorda Stadium, Margao, Goa. The first match of the season was played between the two Goan clubs Dempo and Salgaocar. The top team in the I-League qualified for the qualifying ...

season. Well-travelled former Bafana Bafana winger MacDonald 'Scooter' Mukansi has completed his move to Premiership rookies Bay United on a one-year deal after impressing during recent trials.

International career

He played for the

South Africa national football team The South Africa national soccer team represents South Africa in men's international soccer and is run by the South African Football Association, the governing body for soccer in South Africa. Nicknamed Bafana Bafana (The Boys in Zulu), the ...

and was a participant at the

2002 FIFA World Cup The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea/Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial Association football, football world championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams organized by ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mukansi, Macdonald 1975 births Living people Men's association football forwards South African men's soccer players South African expatriate men's soccer players South Africa men's international soccer players Jomo Cosmos F.C. players Enosis Neon Paralimni FC players FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia players PFC CSKA Sofia players SuperSport United F.C. players S.F.K. Pierikos (football) players East Bengal Club players 2002 FIFA World Cup players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Cypriot First Division players Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in India Soccer players from Boksburg FC SKA-Khabarovsk players Manning Rangers F.C. players Bay United F.C. players Calcutta Football League players 21st-century South African sportsmen