Mordechai Spiegler

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Motaleh Spiegler

Full name	Mordechai Spiegler
Date of birth	August 19, 1944 (age 62)
Place of birth	Sochi, USSR
Nickname	Motaleh
Playing position	Retired (former Striker and Manager)
Youth clubs
1957-1961	Maccabi Netanya
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1963-1970 1970-1971 1971-1972 1972-1974 1974-1977 1977-1980 1980-1981 1982-1983	Maccabi Netanya Hapoel Haifa Beitar Tel Aviv Paris Saint-Germain New York Cosmos Hapoel Haifa Beitar Tel Aviv Maccabi Netanya	- (-) - (-) - (-) 52 (22) 17 (6) - (-) - (-) - (-)
National team
1963-1977	Israel	82 (32)
Teams managed
1979	Maccabi Haifa
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

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 Chazom \| 14 Shmulevich‑Rom \| 15 Talbi \| 16 Vollach \| 17 Ben Rimoz \| 18 Romano \| 19 Shuruk \| 20 Karako \| 21 Hameiri \| 22 Nossovsky \| Coach: Schaffer