Kinnah Phiri

Kinnah Phiri
Personal information
Date of birth (1954-10-30) 30 October 1954 (age 70)
Place of birth Blantyre, Malawi
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1981 Big Bullets
1982–1984 Manzini Wanderers
International career
1973–1981 Malawi[1] 117 (71)
Managerial career
2004–2005 Big Bullets
2006–2007 Malawi (caretaker)
2007–2008 Free State Stars
2008–2013 Malawi
2014 Free State Stars
2014–2015 Free State Stars
2017 Mochudi Centre Chiefs
2017–2020 Jwaneng Galaxy
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kinnah Phiri (born 30 October 1954) is a Malawian football 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.[2]

Playing career

Born in Blantyre, Kinnah began playing football for local side Big Bullets, 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.[3]

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.[4]

In his club career, he stated that he had scored over 700 goals.[5]

Coaching career

Career statistics

Scores and results list Malawi's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Phiri goal.
List of international goals scored by Kinnah Phiri
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 20 January 1974 Curepipe, Mauritius  Mauritius 2–2 Friendly
2 6 July 1974 Blantyre, Malawi  Ivory Coast 5–1 Friendly
3 31 December 1974 Blantyre, Malawi  Tanzania 3–3 Friendly
4
5 31 January 1975 Lilongwe, Malawi  Mauritius 1–1 Friendly
6 2 February 1975 Blantyre, Malawi  Mauritius 3–0 Friendly
7 23 February 1975 Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania  Tanzania 1–3 Friendly
8 27 February 1975 Zanzibar, Tanzania  Zanzibar 7–2 Friendly
9
10
11
12 29 March 1975 Blantyre, Malawi  Zambia 1–6 1976 African Cup of Nations qualification
13 13 April 1975 Lusaka, Zambia  Zambia 3–3 1976 African Cup of Nations qualification
14
15 10 July 1975 Lilongwe, Malawi  Kenya 3–1 Friendly
16
17 31 August 1975 Blantyre, Malawi  Zambia 1–1 Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics
18 1 November 1975 Ndola, Zambia  Tanzania 3–1 1975 CECAFA Cup
19
20
21 7 November 1975 Chingola, Zambia  Uganda 2–1 1975 CECAFA Cup
22 9 November 1975 Lusaka, Zambia  Kenya 2–2 1975 CECAFA Cup
23 28 February 1976 Blantyre, Malawi  Lesotho 4–1 Friendly
24 6 July 1976 Blantyre, Malawi  Kenya 3–0 Friendly
25 7 July 1976 Blantyre, Malawi  Sierra Leone 4–2 Friendly
26 4 September 1976 Blantyre, Malawi  Uganda 1–1 Friendly
27 13 September 1976 Blantyre, Malawi  Botswana 7–1 Friendly
28
29
30
31 15 September 1976 Lilongwe, Malawi  Botswana 3–0 Friendly
32
33 24 October 1976 Blantyre, Malawi  Mauritius 1–1 1978 African Cup of Nations qualification
34 31 October 1976 Curepipe, Mauritius  Mauritius 2–3 1978 African Cup of Nations qualification
35 9 November 1976 Zanzibar, Tanzania  Kenya 2–2 1976 CECAFA Cup
36 27 March 1977 Lusaka, Zambia  Zambia 1–8 Friendly
37 30 September 1977 Gaborone, Botswana  Botswana 2–0 Friendly
38 1 October 1977 Gaborone, Botswana  Botswana 5–1 Friendly
39
40
41
42
43 11 November 1977 Lilongwe, Malawi  Lesotho 3–0 Friendly
44 13 November 1977 Blantyre, Malawi  Lesotho 6–1 Friendly Friendly
45 29 November 1977 Mogadishu, Somalia  Zambia 1–0 1977 CECAFA Cup
46 8 December 1977 Mogadishu Somalia  Kenya 2–1 1977 CECAFA Cup
47 12 December 1977 Nairobi, Kenya  Kenya 1–1 Jamburi Cup
48 18 June 1978 Blantyre, Malawi  Zambia 1–2 Friendly
49 6 July 1978 Blantyre, Malawi  Sierra Leone 5–0 Friendly
50
51 18 July 1978 Alger, Algeria  Egypt 1–4 Football at the 1978 All-Africa Games
52 25 July 1978 Alger, Algeria  Nigeria 2–3 Football at the 1978 All-Africa Games
53
54 22 October 1978 Blantyre, Malawi  Algeria 1–1 Friendly
55 24 October 1978 Lilongwe, Malawi  Algeria 2–1 Friendly
56
57 5 November 1978 Blantyre, Malawi  Somalia 3–1 1978 CECAFA Cup
58 11 November 1978 Blantyre, Malawi  Zambia 2–1 1978 CECAFA Cup
59 17 November 1978 Lilongwe, Malawi  Kenya 2–0 1978 CECAFA Cup
60 19 November 1978 Blantyre, Malawi  Zambia 3–2 1978 CECAFA Cup
61 3 December 1978 Antananarivo, Madagascar  Madagascar 1–2 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
62 17 December 1978 Blantyre, Malawi  Madagascar 5–1 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
63
64 6 July 1979 Blantyre, Malawi  Kenya 1–0 Friendly
65 25 August 1979 Maseru, Lesotho  Lesotho 3–0 Friendly
66
67 7 November 1979 Mombasa, Kenya  Sudan 4–0 1979 CECAFA Cup
68 18 April 1981 Gweru, Zimbabwe  Botswana 5–2 Friendly
69
70 19 June 1981 Blantyre, Malawi  Tanzania 4–1 Friendly
71 21 June 1981 Lilongwe, Malawi  Tanzania 3–1 Friendly

See also

References

  1. ^ Mamrud, Roberto. "Kinnah Phiri". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 17 March 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  2. ^ "How a village boy became Malawi's legend". The Herald (Zimbabwe). 3 February 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Malawi football back on the map". Africa News. 25 November 2008. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "How Kinnah Phiri rose from village boy to Malawi's greatest legend – Panafricanfootball". Archived from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Kinnah promises Malawians race to Angola will go right down to the wire". Archived from the original on 15 January 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2009.


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