Liran Strauber
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Liran Strauber | ||
Date of birth | 20 August 1974 | ||
Place of birth | Kiryat Ono, Israel | ||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Youth career | |||
Hapoel Tel Aviv | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1992–1993 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 15 | (0) |
1993–1994 | Hapoel Kiryat Ono | ||
1994–1995 | Bnei Yehuda | 29 | (0) |
1995–1996 | Ironi Ashdod | ||
1996–1997 | Bnei Yehuda | 23 | (0) |
1997–1999 | Hapoel Jerusalem | 57 | (0) |
1999–2006 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 199 | (0) |
2006–2009 | Maccabi Netanya | 96 | (0) |
2009–2011 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 65 | (0) |
2011–2012 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 30 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
1991 | Israel U17 | 6 | (0) |
1993–1995 | Israel U21 | 17 | (0) |
2002–2008 | Israel | 8 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 December 2010 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 December 2010 |
Liran Strauber (Hebrew: לירן שטראובר; born 20 August 1974) is a former Israeli football goalkeeper.[1][2] At international level, Strauber was capped at under-17 and under-21, and played eight times for Israel's senior team.[3]
Biography
In 2006, Liran Strauber married former Likud member of the Knesset, Inbal Gavrieli.[4] The two divorced in 2009. In May 2011, he married Elinor Avigadol.
Sports career
Strauber began his career in the youth club of Hapoel Tel Aviv and was promoted to the senior squad in 1992. Strauber remained in Hapoel Tel Aviv for one season before moving to Hapoel Kiryat Ono for one season too. At the next season Strauber was playing in Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv where he stayed for one year. During playing in those three clubs Strauber was also the goalkeeper of the Israel national under-21 football team and had 17 international caps.[2][3]
At the 1995/96 season Strauber was a player of Maccabi Ironi Ashdod before returning to Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv for another season. The next season, he moved to Hapoel Jerusalem and played there for two seasons. After two seasons in Jerusalem Strauber moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv where he spent 7 seasons in his career[2] and was one of the leading players in this club, winning the Israeli Championship once in 2002/03 and playing with the club in the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup. During the 2005–06 season Strauber had disputes with the fans and management[5] of Maccabi Tel Aviv, resulting in his transfer to Maccabi Netanya before the 2006–07 season. The club reached second place that season and qualified for the UEFA Cup qualifying rounds, for the first time in its history. Strauber managed to have a clean sheet for 783 minutes (9 games) from 8/12/07 to 16/2/08, which is a record in the history of Israeli football.
After three seasons in Maccabi Netanya he made his return to Maccabi Tel Aviv.[2] He was Maccabi Tel Aviv's team captain. After a poor form in the last season of Maccabi Tel Aviv He left the club as a free agent and signed for Maccabi Petah Tikva.
He retired from football after getting relegated with Maccabi Petah Tikva to Liga Leumit.[6]
Strauber made 513 appearances in the Israeli Premier League which puts him in the 6th place of the league's all-time table.
Honours
Club
- Bnei Yehuda
- Toto Cup Top Division: : 1996–97
- Maccabi Tel Aviv
- Israeli Premier League: 2002–03
- State Cup: 2001, 2002, 2005
Individual
- Israeli Premier League Beast Goalkeeper of the Year: 2007–08
See also
References
- ^ "Player Details: Strauber Liran". The Israel Football Association. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Shtrauber, Liran". National-Football-Teams.com. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
- ^ a b "National team player's details: Strauber Liran". The Israel Football Association. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
- ^ Cashman, Greer Fay (18 June 2006). "Celebrity grapevine". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
- ^ Ackerman, Assaf (27 December 2006). "Soccer / Netanya goalkeeper Strauber could be headed out after clash with coach". Haaretz. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
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External links
- Liran Strauber at National-Football-Teams.com
- Use dmy dates from May 2012
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Israeli Jews
- Jewish footballers
- Israeli footballers
- Association football goalkeepers
- Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. players
- Hapoel Kiryat Ono F.C. players
- Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. players
- Maccabi Ironi Ashdod F.C. players
- Hapoel Jerusalem F.C. players
- Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. players
- Maccabi Netanya F.C. players
- Israel international footballers
- Israel under-21 international footballers
- Liga Leumit players
- Israeli Premier League players
- Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent
- Football players from Kiryat Ono
- People from Kiryat Ono