Giora Spiegel
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Giora Spiegel | ||
Date of birth | July 27, 1947 | ||
Place of birth | Petah Tikva,Israel | ||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1965–1973 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 176 | (68) |
1973–1978 | Strasbourg | 97 | (23) |
1978–1979 | Lyon | 43 | (9) |
1979 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 26 | (2) |
1979–1980 | Hakoah Ramat Gan | 28 | (6) |
1980–1981 | Beitar Tel Aviv | 33 | (9) |
Total | 403 | (117) | |
International career | |||
Israel U-19 | |||
1965–1980 | Israel | 44 | (18) |
Managerial career | |||
1983–1988 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | ||
1988–1989 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | ||
1989–1992 | Bnei Yehuda | ||
1993–1998 | Maccabi Haifa | ||
1999–2000 | Bnei Yehuda | ||
2000–2002 | Ironi Rishon LeZion | ||
2007–2008 | Beitar Jerusalem(general manager) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Giora Spiegel(Hebrew:גיורא שפיגל), (born July 27, 1947) is an Israeli formerfootballerand coach.[2]As a footballer, he holds therecordfor the longestIsraeli internationalcareer, spanning 14 years and 357 days.
Biography
[edit]Born inPetah Tikva,Giora Spiegel is the son ofEliezer Spiegel,who played forMaccabi Petah Tikvaand theIsrael national team.[3][4]He is Jewish.[5]Spiegel attendedHerzliya Hebrew High School.In university he studied accountancy.[6]
Playing career
[edit]As a youth, he played withMaccabi Tel Aviv,and was marked early on as a future talent. By age 17, he was leading the national U-21 side to Asian championships and by 18, he had been called up to thefull side.In the summer of 1970 he played as a forward for the Israel national team at the 1970 World Cup finals in Mexico.[7]
In 1973, he fought with Maccabi manager,Jerry Beit haLeviover transferring to a club in France. He later left for France in 1974 to play for French side Strasbourg, returning in 1979 to rejoin Maccabi.[7]
Managerial career
[edit]Spiegel began his career as a manager inHapoel Petah Tikvain the mid-1980s. After several years he moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv, which won theState Cup.After problems with some of the players and a 10–0 defeat toMaccabi Haifa,Spiegel was fired.
In 1989, he moved toBnei Yehuda,which won theIsraeli Championshipin 1990.[7]In 1993, he moved to Maccabi Haifa.[8]The team won the Israeli Championship that year[7]without losing a single game the whole season. Under his lead, Haifa won the State Cup twice, in 1995 and in 1998.
In 1999, Spiegel returned to Bnei Yehuda. After one unsuccessful season with the club, he moved toIroni Rishon LeZionfor two years.
In July 2007, after an absence of five years from the Israeli football scene, Spiegel was hired byBeitar Jerusalemas itsgeneral manager.[7]That year, the team won theDouble.In August 2008, he retired.
Honours
[edit]As a player
[edit]Maccabi Tel Aviv
- Israeli championships:1967–68,1969–70,1971–72,1978–79
- Israel State Cup:1966–67, 1969–70, 1976–77
- Asian Club Championship:1968–69,1970–71
Israel
Individual
- Member of theIsraeli Football Hall of Fame(2009)
As manager
[edit]- Maccabi Tel Aviv
- Bnei Yehuda
- Maccabi Haifa
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Giora Spiegel Bio, Stats, and Results".Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.Archived fromthe originalon 2020-04-18.
- ^"Giora Spiegel is done coaching, but he's not done".Archived fromthe originalon 2009-12-21.Retrieved2009-12-15.
- ^Wilson, Jonathan; Winner, David; Auclair, Philippe; Sandbrook, Dominic; Montague, James; Clavane, Anthony; Lowe, Sid; Lyttleton, Ben; Kuper, Simon; Smyth, Rob (26 May 2011)."The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue One".Blizzard Media Ltd – via Google Books.
- ^"Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Haifa battle to draw" - Israel News -Jerusalem Post
- ^"ISRAEL LOSES PLAYERS TEL AVIV",Jewish Post.
- ^Dawson, Jeff (16 August 2012).Back Home: England And The 1970 World Cup.Orion Publishing Group.ISBN9781409127444– via Google Books.
- ^abcde"Sporting Heroes for 60 years: No. 33 Giora Spiegel" -Jerusalem Post
- ^"Soccer / Giora Spiegel is done coaching, but he's not done" |Haaretz
- ^"The Israel Football Association".Archived fromthe originalon 2015-09-30.Retrieved2013-03-24.
External links
[edit]- Giora Spiegelat National-Football-Teams.com
- Giora Spiegel–Israel Football Associationleague player details
- Statsat Bnei Yehuda
- 1947 births
- Living people
- Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium alumni
- Israeli men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. players
- Israel men's international footballers
- 1968 AFC Asian Cup players
- 1970 FIFA World Cup players
- RC Strasbourg Alsace players
- Ligue 1 players
- Olympique Lyonnais players
- Beitar Tel Aviv F.C. players
- Hakoah Maccabi Ramat Gan F.C. players
- Israeli football managers
- Maccabi Haifa F.C. managers
- Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. managers
- Footballers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for Israel
- Footballers from Petah Tikva
- Israeli people of German-Jewish descent
- Israeli expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Israeli expatriate sportspeople in France
- Jews from Mandatory Palestine
- AFC Champions League Elite winning players