Manor Solomon
Personal information | |||
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Birth name | Manor Solomon | ||
Date of birth | 24 July 1999 | ||
Place of birth | Kfar Saba, Israel | ||
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder, winger | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Shakhtar Donetsk | ||
Number | 19 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2016–2019 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 68 | (8) |
2019– | Shakhtar Donetsk | 70 | (16) |
International career‡ | |||
2015 | Israel U16 | 1 | (1) |
2015–2016 | Israel U17 | 14 | (1) |
2016 | Israel U18 | 2 | (0) |
2017 | Israel U19 | 6 | (0) |
2017–2018 | Israel U21 | 6 | (0) |
2018– | Israel | 26 | (4) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 December 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 September 2021 |
Manor Solomon (Hebrew: מנור סולומון; born 24 July 1999) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or as a winger for FC Shakhtar Donetsk and the Israel national team.
Early life
Solomon was born in Kfar Saba, Israel, to a Jewish family.[1] His parents Ayala and Yossi Solomon are Phys Ed. teachers.[2]
Solomon served as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.[3][4]
Club career
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
On 1 October 2019, Solomon scored his first UEFA Champions League goal, when he scored in the last minutes of an away match against Atalanta that ended in a 2–1 win for his team.[5] Making him the youngest Israeli footballer to ever score in the Champions League, at the age of 20.
On 26 November 2019, Solomon scored the last goal in a Champions League away match against Manchester City, helping Shakhtar to finish it with a 1–1 draw.[6]
On 21 October 2020, Solomon scored for Shakhtar the third 2020–21 UEFA Champions League away match goal against Real Madrid, in a 3–2 win for his team.[7]
On 1 December 2020, Solomon scored the last goal in a Champions League home match against Real Madrid, helping Shakhtar to earn a 2–0 win.[8]
International career
On 18 November 2020, Solomon scored a first half goal in a UEFA Nations League match against Scotland, earning a 1–0 win for his native Israel.[9]
On 4 September 2021, he scored the first goal against Austria at a 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers match, that ended in a 5–2 home win for Israel.[10]
Career statistics
Club
- As of 23 December 2021[11]
Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Maccabi Petah Tikva | 2016–17 | Israeli Premier League | 23 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 2 | ||
2017–18 | 33 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | – | 38 | 4 | ||||
2018–19 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | – | – | 18 | 4 | ||||
Total | 68 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 2 | – | – | 83 | 10 | ||||
Shakhtar Donetsk | 2018–19 | Ukrainian Premier League | 11 | 0 | 3 | 1 | – | 2[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 | |
2019–20 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 8[b] | 3 | 1[c] | 0 | 29 | 6 | |||
2020–21 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 0 | – | 10[d] | 2 | 1[c] | 0 | 35 | 11 | |||
2021–22 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | – | 8[e] | 0 | 1[c] | 0 | 26 | 4 | |||
Total | 70 | 16 | 5 | 1 | – | 28 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 106 | 22 | |||
Career total | 138 | 24 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 28 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 189 | 32 |
- ^ Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
- ^ Five appearances and two goals in UEFA Champions League, three appearances and one goal in UEFA Europa League
- ^ a b c Appearance(s) in Ukrainian Super Cup
- ^ Six appearances and two goals in UEFA Champions League, four appearances in UEFA Europa League
- ^ Appearance(s) in UEFA Champions League
International
- As of 7 September 2021[12]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
Israel | 2018 | 2 | 0 |
2019 | 4 | 1 | |
2020 | 8 | 0 | |
2021 | 8 | 3 | |
Total | 22 | 4 |
International goals
- Scores and results list Israel's goal tally first.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | 18 November 2020 | Netanya Stadium, Netanya, Israel | Scotland | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2020–21 UEFA Nations League B |
2. | 31 March 2021 | Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău, Moldova | Moldova | 2–1 | 4–1 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
3. | 5 June 2021 | City Stadium, Podgorica, Montenegro | Montenegro | 2–0 | 3–1 | Friendly |
4. | 4 September 2021 | Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel | Austria | 1–0 | 5–2 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
Honours
Club
Shakhtar Donetsk
See also
References
- ^ "Israeli soccer's golden boy just took a huge risk. And it could catapult him to fame". Haaretz.
- ^ פורת, אבינעם (18 May 2017). "הדבר הגדול הבא?". ynet.
- ^ "Solomon's Wisdom Has Shocked Manchester City". BabaGol.
- ^ "צה"ל אישר למנור סולומון קיצור שירות אם יימכר לקבוצה באירופה - וואלה! ספורט". וואלה!News. 29 August 2018.
- ^ "Shakhtar Donetsk v Atalanta facts". UEFA. 2 December 2019.
- ^ Doyle, Paul (26 November 2019). "Manchester City 1-1 Shakhtar Donetsk: Champions League – as it happened". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ "Real Madrid 2–3 Shakhtar Donetsk". UEFA. 21 October 2020.
- ^ "Solomon made it 2-0 and forced RM to look at permutations".
- ^ "Israel-Scotland | UEFA Nations League".
- ^ "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™".
- ^ Manor Solomon at Soccerway. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- ^ Manor Solomon at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Israeli Jews
- Jewish footballers
- Israeli footballers
- Israel international footballers
- Israel youth international footballers
- Association football forwards
- Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. players
- FC Shakhtar Donetsk players
- Israeli Premier League players
- Ukrainian Premier League players
- Footballers from Kfar Saba
- Israeli expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Ukraine
- Israeli expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
- Israeli football biography stubs