Ronny Gafney
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Ronny Gafney | |
| Date of birth | March 11, 1980 (age 27) | |
| Place of birth | Unknown, USA | |
| Playing position | Left Back | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Beitar Jerusalem | |
| Number | 24 | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1997–98 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1998–2000 2000–2001 2001–2006 2006— |
Maccabi Tel Aviv Hapoel Petah Tikva Bnei Yehuda Beitar Jerusalem |
? (?) 10 (0) ? (?) 0 (0) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2006— | Israel | 1 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Ronny Gafney (Hebrew: רוני גפני) (born March 11, 1980) is an American-Israeli footballer who plays for Beitar Jerusalem. He is a new addition at Teddy Kollek Memorial Stadium, having joined from Bnei Yehuda where he served as captain and led the team to the Israel State Cup final.
Though born in the United States, his family moved back to Israel in 1988 where he started to play organized football. His developmental years were spent at Maccabi Tel Aviv, where he made his professional debut during the 1998–99 season in a match against Hapoel Tzafririm Holon. Though he couldn't break the first team on a regular basis as Dedi Ben Dayan was just coming into his own, so Gafni headed to Hapoel Petah Tikva where he languished on the bench. His move to Bnei Yehuda gave him playing time, and he even scored a game winning goal in the 2002–03 season against his future club Beitar Jerusalem. Eventually he was recognized as being one of the best left backs in all of Israel at that time. He was rewarded with an appearance at the end of the Avraham Grant send off game versus Denmark.
Gafney signed for Beitar Jerusalem during the close season under the condition that he would be the preferred left back.
| Beitar Jerusalem FC - Current Squad |
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1 Kornfine | 3 Amsalem | 4 Benado | 5 Gershon | 6 Ben-Yosef | 7 C. Schwenck | 8 Bruchyan | 9 Yitzhaki | 10 Tamuz | 11 Tuto | 12 Ben-Shushan | 13 Azriel | 14 Ziv | 15 Zandberg | 18 Afek | 19 Alberman | 20 Boateng | 21 Moyal | 22 Ivgi | 23 Mirosevic | 24 Gafney | 25 Kim | 26 Tibi | 28 J. Ramalho | 29 Bukari | 30 Shemesh | -- Sasson | Manager: Mizrahi |
