Erroll Bennett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Erroll Bennett

Tahitian footballer

Date of Birth: 07-May-1950

Place of Birth: Papeete, French Polynesia, France

Profession: association football player

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Erroll Bennett

  • Erroll Bennett (born 7 May 1950) is a former Tahitian footballer, who spent most of his career with AS Central Sport.
  • Bennett placed fifteenth in a 1999 poll by International Federation of Football History & Statistics to find the Player of the Century for Oceania.Bennett was part of the Tahitian national squad for the 1973 Oceania Cup, the first ever Oceania-wide international soccer tournament.
  • Bennett scored three goals in the tournament, and played in the final, which Tahiti lost 2–0 to New Zealand.He joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1977 after which he refused to play football on Sundays.
  • Following Bennett's baptism, Napoléon Spitz, the head of Bennett's team, held a meeting in which he said his team would stop Sunday play and all football teams in that division agreed to move games to weeknights.
  • Bennett was also a police officer in Tahiti.
  • He is the father of Naea Bennett, who also played for Tahiti national team.

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