Giora Spiegel

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Giora Spiegel
Personal information
Full name Giora Spiegel
Date of birth July 27, 1947 (1947-07-27) (age 60)
Place of birth    Petah Tikva, Israel
Playing position Manager (former Midfielder)
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*

1973-1978
1978-1979
1979		 Maccabi Tel Aviv
Strasbourg
Lyon
Maccabi Tel Aviv		    
National team2
1965-1980 Israel

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 10 December 2006.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 10 December 2006.
* Appearances (Goals)

Giora Spiegel (Hebrew: גיורא שפיגל), (born July 27, 1947 in Petah Tikva) is a former Israeli international footballer and is currently a manager. As a footballer, he holds the record for the longest Israel career, spanning 14 years and 357 days.

[edit] Early life

The son of Eliezer Spiegel, who was a prominent footballer during the British Mandate of Palestine. Giora attended Herzliya Hebrew High School.

[edit] Playing career

As a youth, he played at Maccabi Tel Aviv and from an early age was scouted as being a future talent. By age seventeen, he was leading the national U-21 side to Asian championships and by eighteen, he had been called up to the full side. By 1973, he had a spat with Maccabi manager, Jerry Beit haLevi over transferring to a club in France. He later left Maccabi for France and didn't come back until 1979 when he rejoined Maccabi and helped them win the league.

[edit] Managerial career

Today, Giora acts as a general manager of Beitar Jerusalem.

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Israel squad - 1970 FIFA World Cup
1 Vissoker • 2 Bar • 3 Bello • 4 Primo • 5 Rosen • 6 Rosenthal • 7 Shum • 8 Spiegel • 9 Feigenbaum • 10 Spiegler • 11 Borba • 12 Schwager • 13 Chazom • 14 Shmulevich‑Rom • 15 Talbi • 16 Vollach • 17 Ben Rimoz • 18 Romano • 19 Shuruk • 20 Karako • 21 Hameiri • 22 Nossovsky • Coach: Scheffer
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Maccabi Haifa F.C. – Managers

Schwartz (1946–47) • Taurentauer (1950–52) • Schlefenberg (1952–54) • Fuchs (1954–56) • Kisch (1956–57) • Koch (1957–59) • Farkash (1959–61) • Forbes (1961–62) • Kisch (1962) • Schlefenberg (1962–63) • Spasov (1963–65) • Halibner (1965) • Menchel (1965–69) • Smeilowicz (1969–70) • Hardy (1970–72) • Menchel (1972–74) • Weinberg (1974–75) • Shinar (1975–77) • Sasson (1977) • Fuchs (1977) • Hardy (1977–78) • Kollek (1978–79) • Spiegler (1979) • Hardy (1979–82) • Mansell (1982–83) • Scharf (1983–87) • Kashtan (1987–88) • Levkovic (1988–90) • Scharf (1990–92) • Spiegel (1993–98) • Brailovsky (1998–99) • Uhrin (1999–00) • Cohen (2000) • Grant (2000–02) • Shum (2002–03) • R. Levy (2003–08) E. Levy (2008–)