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PHIL MASINGA, the former South Africa and Leeds United striker who scored the goal that took his country to the World Cup for the first time, died yesterday. He was 49.
The South African Football Association said Masinga had died in a Johannesburg hospital from a “cancer-related disease” just a month after being diagnosed.
He was transferred last month from a hospital in his home town of Klerksdorp to the hospital in Johannesburg, SAFA said.
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