Manchester United’s South African icons Benni McCarthy and Quinton Fortune have come together to share a message of hope for young people living in hardship.
The duo were both born in 1997 and grew up in the ‘Cape Flats’ of Cape Town, where drugs, gangs and violence provided the backdrop to their upbringing.
Gifted footballers, Benni and Quinny played against each at all ages groups until Fortune moved to England at 13 for an opportunity with Tottenham Hotspur. McCarthy was forced to endure the ‘gangster leagues’ of South Africa, before later getting his chance to play in Spain.