Itzhak Shum

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Itzhak Shum (born September 1, 1948) is a retired Israeli football player and currently a football manager.

He played for Israel national football team and was a participant at the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

In 2002/03, Shum was appointed to the manager of Maccabi Haifa replacing the next national manager Avraham Grant. With shum. Haifa became the first ever israeli team to reach the UEFA Champions League group stage. However. he lost the israeli championship to Maccabi Tel-Aviv because of better goal difference. In the end of the season he left to Greece.

He is one of Israel's most successful coaches ever working abroad, having lead Greek side Panathinaikos FC to the double in 2004 and was the first time that Panathinaikos had won the Greek championship since 1996 and the Greek cup since 1995. Nevertheless, Shum was given the sack early on in the following season. Shum has also unsuccessfully managed Bulgarian side Litex Lovech and Rusian side Alania now named FC Spartak Vladikavkaz. Not only this but Shum has also been a successful manager in his homeland. In the 2002/2003 season Shum made history by leading Maccabi Haifa to become the first Israeli team to qualify for the group phase of the UEFA Champions League. In the group phase, the team defeated Olympiacos CFP and the legendary Manchester United despite them not having there strongest team. Haifa finished the group in third place with 7 points, allowing Maccabi Haifa a place in the UEFA Cup.

Shum is currently the manager of Israeli side Hapoel Tel Aviv FC replacing the now Israeli National Football team manager Dror Kashtan. He has so far lead Hapoel into group tournament of the UEFA cup already beating Ukrainian side FC Chernomorets Odessa 4-1 on aggregate in the first round.

Preceded by Sergio Markarián	Panathinaikos manager 2003-2004	Succeeded by Zdeněk Ščasný

	Israel squad - 1970 FIFA World Cup
1 Vissoker \| 2 Bar \| 3 Bello \| 4 Primo \| 5 Rosen \| 6 Rosenthal \| 7 Shum \| 8 Spiegel \| 9 Faygenbaum \| 10 Spiegler \| 11 Borba \| 12 Schvager \| 13 Domenghini \| 14 Shmulevich-Rom \| 15 Talbi \| 16 Vollach \| 17 Ben Rimoz \| 18 Romano \| 19 Shuruk \| 20 Karako \| 21 Hameiri \| 22 Nossovsky \| Coach: Schaffer