Serghei Clescenco

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Serghei Clescenco
Full name	Serghei Clescenco
Date of birth	May 20, 1972 (1972-05-20) (age 36)
Place of birth	Kriulyany, Soviet Union (now Criuleni, Moldova)^[1]
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Forward
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1990-1992 1992-1996 1996-1997 1997-1998 1998 1998-1999 1999-2001 2001-2003 2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2007-present	Nistru Chisinau Zimbru Chisinau Go Ahead Eagles Zimbru Chisinau Zenit St. Petersburg Zimbru Chisinau Maccabi Haifa Hapoel Tel Aviv Chernomorets Novorossiysk Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv Zimbru Chisinau FC Sibir Novosibirsk Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk	23 (1) 99 (39) 60 (8) 20 (25) 6 (0) 8 (0) 71 (29) 62 (22) 6 (0) 14 (1) 18 (1) 44 (8) 33 (1)
National team²
1991-2006^[2]	Moldova	69 (11)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 23, 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of May 23, 2008. * 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 foreigner 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 foreigner 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.