Serghei Clescenco

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Serghei Clescenco
Full name	Serghei Clescenco
Date of birth	May 20, 1972 (age 34)
Place of birth	, Moldova
Height	170 cm
Playing position	Forward
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1995-1997 1999-2001 2001-2003 2003-2004	Go Ahead Eagles Watford Maccabi Haifa Hapoel Tel Aviv Bnei Yehuda Sibir Novosibirsk	71 (29) 62 (22)
National team²
	Moldova	63 (10)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 March 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 6 March 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Serghei Clescenco is a Moldovan football player who holds the record for most international appearances for his country as well as the record for most goals scored in a single season by a foreignor in Israel.

[edit] Career in Israel

In 1999, Clescenco joined Maccabi Haifa from Moldovan club Zimbru Kishinev. It was one of the most successful starts ever for a foreignor in Israel as he bagged 22 goals in his first season topping the record set by Polish striker Andrzej Kubica for most goals scored by a foreigner in Israel in a single season. After another strong season in Haifa, he moved to Hapoel Tel Aviv where he was part of the squad that reached the quarter finals of the UEFA Cup.