Regina Leader-Post

Soccer great Masinga dies of cancer at age 49

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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 Sunday. He was 49. The South African Football Associatio­n said Masinga died in a Johannesbu­rg hospital from a “cancer related disease” just a month after being diagnosed. Masinga played for South Africa at the 1998 World Cup in France.

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