Bafana Bafana and Burnley striker Lyle Foster has admitted that he wouldn’t mind breaking Benni McCarthy’s goal record at the national senior team.
McCarthy’s record of 31 goals still stands years after his retirement and Foster – the only South African player in the English Premier League – currently sits on nine goals in his 31 appearances for Bafana.
The 25-year-old spoke to iDiski Times senior writer Lorenz Köhler in edition 227 of the newspaper at the back of Bafana’s qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America, where he expressed his love for the Kenya national team head coach.
Foster added that though it would great to break the record, though he doesn’t go into every game with it weighing on his mind.
“Benni is the GOAT… lots of love for him,” Foster told iDiski Times.
“I can’t lie to you, you know and say I don’t think of it, I never thought of it before the skipper mentioned it to me – it’s not something I go into every game thinking about, but if it happens, it happens.
“I have started really well, thank God for that. And God willing, if it happens, it happens.
“I won’t sit here and say that it’s not something I don’t want to achieve. Everyone wants to achieve things. I have so much respect for Benni, but I’d like to follow in his footsteps as well.”
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