Giora Spiegel
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Giora Spiegel | ||
| Date of birth | July 27, 1947 | ||
| Place of birth | Petah Tikva, Mandate Palestine | ||
| Height | 5-11 (181 cm)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Manager (former 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) |
| 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) | ||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of December 10, 2006 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of December 10, 2006 | |||
Giora Spiegel (Hebrew: גיורא שפיגל), (born July 27, 1947, in Petah Tikva) is a former Israeli footballer and coach.[2] As a footballer, he holds the record for the longest Israeli international career, spanning 14 years and 357 days.
Biography
Giora Spiegel is the son of Eliezer Spiegel, who played for Maccabi Petah Tikva and the Israel national football team.[3][4] He is Jewish.[5] Spiegel attended Herzliya Hebrew High School. In university he studied accountancy.[6]
Playing career
As a youth, he played with Maccabi 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 the full 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 haLevi over 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
Spiegel began his career as a manager in Hapoel Petah Tikva in the mid-1980s . After several years he moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv, which won the State Cup. After problems with some of the players and a 10–0 defeat to Maccabi Haifa, Spiegel was fired.
In 1989, he moved to Bnei Yehuda, which won the Israeli Championship in 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 to Ironi Rishon LeZion for two years.
In July 2007, after an absence of five years from the Israeli football scene, Spiegel was hired by Beitar Jerusalem as its general manager.[7] That year, the team won the Double. In August 2008, he retired.
Honours
Player
Club
- Israeli championships (4): 1967–68, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1978–79
- Israel State Cup (3): 1966–67, 1969–70, 1976–77
- Asian Club Championship (2): 1968–69, 1970–71
International
Individual
- Member of the Israeli Football Hall of Fame (2009)
As a Manager
Club
- Israeli championships (1): 1993–94
- State Cup (2): 1994-95, 1997-98
- Israeli championships (1):2007–08
- State Cup (1): 2007–08
See also
References
- ^ "Giora Spiegel Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- ^ "Giora Spiegel is done coaching, but he's not done".
- ^ 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. ISBN 9781409127444 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d e "Sporting Heroes for 60 years: No. 33 Giora Spiegel" - Jerusalem Post
- ^ "Soccer / Giora Spiegel is done coaching, but he's not done" | Haaretz
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-30. Retrieved 2013-03-24.
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External links
- Giora Spiegel at National-Football-Teams.com
- Giora Spiegel – Israel Football Association national team player details
- Stats at Bnei Yehuda
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- 1947 births
- Living people
- Herzliya Gymnasia alumni
- Jewish footballers
- Israeli footballers
- Israeli people of German-Jewish descent
- Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. players
- Israel international footballers
- Israeli expatriate footballers
- 1968 AFC Asian Cup players
- 1970 FIFA World Cup players
- RC Strasbourg Alsace players
- Ligue 1 players
- Expatriate footballers in France
- Israeli expatriate sportspeople in France
- 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 of Israel
- Football players from Petah Tikva
- People from Petah Tikva
- Association football midfielders