Superstars don't always go on to make it as coaches. Diego Maradona is one example.

But Benni McCarthy wants to be an even better coach than he was a player. And he believes he is taking the right steps to becoming a top mentor. The former Bafana striker is currently at Scottish club Hibernian FC, where he is learning from the club's first-team coach Alan Stubbs, a former Everton defender.

McCarthy, who is currently doing his Uefa A coaching licence, believes he could be ready to sit in the hot seat in about two years.

"I have got an opportunity to expand my coaching to see if I can be a better coach than I was a player. In a year or two, once I am done, I will see where I go ... if it's back to South Africa or England, we will see," McCarthy said yesterday.

"Most of the time if you have been a top player, then you feel you know it all. So many players think they don't have to learn. So you take it from being a player into management and that's the wrong way. I am taking a different approach. I went to school and I am studying to be the best coach that I can be. I have been speaking to a lot of managers who are in the business. It's a completely different ball game and that's what many players do not understand ..."