Mordechai Spiegler

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Personal information
Motaleh Spiegler

Full name	Mordechai Spiegler
Date of birth	August 19, 1944
Place of birth	Sochi, Russia
Nickname	Motaleh
Position	Attacking Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Retired
Youth clubs
1957-1961	Maccabi Netanya
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1962-1972 1972-1974 1974-1977 1980-1981	Maccabi Netanya Paris Saint-Germain Cosmos Beitar Tel Aviv	? (?) ? (?) ? (?) ? (?)
National team
1964-1977	Israel	62 (25)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Mordechai Spiegler (Hebrew: מרדכי שפיגלר) (born 19 August 1944) is a former Israeli footballer. As a striker, he played for Maccabi Netanya along with Paris St. Germain in France and alongside Pelé for New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League in the 1970s.

He made his international debut for Israel on 2 January 1964 against Hong Kong.

In 1967, Alex Ferguson broke his nose in an international game against Scotland in Tel Aviv.

His major achievement was helping Israel qualify for the Football World Cup 1970 in Mexico. He scored Israel's lone goal in World Cup history in a 1-1 draw against Sweden.

His 32 goals for the national team (according to IFA count, FIFA counts only 25 of them) is the Israeli record. Spiegler scored 25 goals in 62 'official' internationals for the Israeli national side, he also played in 21 other 'unofficial' matches (mostly Olympic Games qualifiers) scoring seven more goals.

Spiegler captained the Olympic team at Mexico City 1968 which reached the Quarter-Finals, losing to Bulgaria by a draw after the match ended 1-1.

He was deservedly nominated as the best Israeli player of the last 50 years by the Israel Football Association in the UEFA Jubilee Awards in November 2003 ^[1].

[edit] External links

Mordechai Spiegler International Career from The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
UEFA.com - Israel's Golden Player

[edit] Notes

^ Golden Players take centre stage. UEFA.com. (Retrieved 2006-10-28).

Preceded by -	UEFA Jubilee Awards Israel	Succeeded by -

	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