Baruch Dego

Baruch Dego
Personal information
Date of birth	28 March 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth	Adis Ababa, Ethiopia
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	right winger
Team information
Current team	Maccabi Ironi Ashdod
Youth career
	Maccabi Ironi Ashdod
Senior career*
Years	Team
1997–2000	Maccabi Ironi/F.C. Ashdod
2000–2005	Maccabi Tel Aviv
2005–2008	Hapoel Tel Aviv
2008	Maccabi Netanya
2008–2010	F.C. Ashdod
2010	Nea Salamis Famagusta
2010–2011	Apollon Limassol
2011–2013	Ironi Ramat HaSharon
2013	Hapoel Rishon LeZion
2013–2017	Hapoel Ashkelon
2017–	Maccabi Ironi Ashdod
International career
1999–2002	Israel U-21
2003	Israel
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 June 2017

Baruch Dego (Hebrew: ברוך דגו; born 28 March 1982) is an Ethiopian-born Israeli footballer.^[1]^[2] He currently plays for Maccabi Ironi Ashdod in the Israeli Liga Bet.

Career

Dego, who grew up in Maccabi Ironi Ashdod F.C., was transferred to Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. in 2000/01, and won a championship and three national trophies. In 2004/05, he was the only player to score for Maccabi in the UEFA Champions League group stage. He scored two goals against Ajax Amsterdam in the local win 2–1, one goal from penalty against Juventus (1–1) and another penalty goal at Bayern Munich (5–1 to Bayern).

Maccabi's fans saw Dego as one of the main reasons for Maccabi beloved captain Avi Nimni's dismissal in August 2003, and when Dego's adoptive father, David Tshuva, spoke to the press against Maccabi the fans called Dego to leave to the city rival. After the 2004/05 season, he did that and transferred to Hapoel Tel-Aviv.

After spending 3 seasons with Hapoel Tel-Aviv winning two more Israeli State Cup he moved to Maccabi Natanya that at the time was coached by German legend Lothar Matthäus where he lasted only couple of months and playing only one official match before he was released by the club and signed a two-year contract with his youth club F.C. Ashdod not able to show the same ability from the start of his career. Until at January 2010 transfer window he reunited with his former coach Nir Klinger at Nea Salamis Famagusta FC.

On 28 May Apollon Limassol announced that Dego^[3] signed a two-year contract with the club. Dego has reunited with his former Maccabi Tel Aviv attack partner Aldo Adorno with whom he played with during the 2003–2004 season.

On 6 July 2011, he joined Ironi Ramat HaSharon. He was released in the middle of the 2012–13 season, and subsequently signed a contract to play for Hapoel Rishon LeZion of Israel's second league until the end of the season, with the hope of helping them to move up a league to Israel's top league for the next season.

Personal life

Baruch's younger brother Messay is a former footballer and currently the manager of Hapoel Kfar Saba.

Honours

Club

Maccabi Tel-Aviv

Israeli Premier League (1): 2002–03
Israel State Cup (2): 2001, 2002

Hapoel Tel-aviv

Israel State Cup (3): 2005, 2006, 2007

Individual

Footballer of the Year in Israel (1): 2003

References

^ "Baruch Dego recalled to national team squad". Jerusalem Post. 2004-12-23. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
^ Bergerfreund, Doron (2005-05-31). "Dego eyes Galatasaray move Israel News". Haaretz. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
^ [1] Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

External links

Baruch Dego at Soccerway

[1] "Baruch Dego recalled to national team squad". Jerusalem Post. 2004-12-23. Retrieved 2013-09-24.

[2] Bergerfreund, Doron (2005-05-31). "Dego eyes Galatasaray move Israel News". Haaretz. Retrieved 2013-09-24.

[3] [1] Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

[1]

[2]

[3]