Giora Spiegel
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Giora Spiegel | ||
| Date of birth | July 27, 1947 | ||
| Place of birth | Petah Tikva, Mandate Palestine | ||
| Playing position | Manager (former Midfielder) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1965–1973 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 176 | (68) |
| 1973–1978 | Strasbourg | 97 | (23) |
| 1978–1979 | Lyon | 43 | (9) |
| 1979 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 26 | (2) |
| 1979–1980 | Hakoah Ramat Gan | 28 | (6) |
| 1980–1981 | Beitar Tel Aviv | 33 | (9) |
| National team‡ | |||
| Israel U-19 | |||
| 1965–1980 | Israel | 44 | (18) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1983–1988 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | ||
| 1988–1989 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | ||
| 1989–1992 | Bnei Yehuda | ||
| 1993–1998 | Maccabi Haifa | ||
| 1999–2000 | Bnei Yehuda | ||
| 2000–2002 | Ironi Rishon LeZion | ||
| 2007–2008 | Beitar Jerusalem (general manager) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of December 10, 2006. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Giora Spiegel (Hebrew: גיורא שפיגל), (born July 27, 1947, in Petah Tikva) is a former Israeli footballer and coach.[1] As a footballer, he holds the record for the longest Israeli career, spanning 14 years and 357 days.
Biography
Giora Spiegel is the son of Eliezer Spiegel, who played for Maccabi Petah Tikva and the Israel national football team. Spiegel attended Herzliya Hebrew High School.
In 2005, he was voted the 172nd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[2]
Playing career
As a youth, he played with Maccabi Tel Aviv and was marked early on as a future talent. By seventeen, he was leading the national U-21 side to Asian championships and by eighteen, he had been called up to the full side. In 1973, he fought with Maccabi manager, Jerry Beit haLevi over transferring to a club in France. He later left for France, returning in 1979 to rejoin Maccabi.
Managerial career
Spiegel began his career as a manager in Hapoel Petah Tikva in the mid-1980s . After several years he moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv, which won the State Cup. After problems with some of the players and a 10–0 defeat to Maccabi Haifa, Spiegel was fired. In 1989 he moved to Bnei Yehuda, which won the Israeli Championship in 1990. In 1993, he moved to Maccabi Haifa. The team won the Israeli Championship that year without losing a single game the whole season. Under his lead, Haifa won the State Cup twice, in 1995 and in 1998. In 1999, Spiegel returned to Bnei Yehuda and after one unsuccessful season with the club he moved to Ironi Rishon LeZion for two years.
In July 2007, after an absence of five years from the Israeli football scene, Spiegel was hired by Beitar Jerusalem as its general manager. That year, the team won the Double. In August 2008, he retired.
Honours
As a Player
- AFC Youth Championship (1):
- Israeli championships (4):
- 1967–68, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1978–79
- State Cup (3):
- 1966–67, 1969–70, 1976–77
- Asian Club Championship (2):
- 1968–69, 1970–71
- Member of the Israeli Football Hall of Fame (2009)
As a Manager
- Israeli championships (3):
- 1989–90, 1993–94, 2007–08 (as general manager)
- State Cup (4):
- 1988–89, 1994–95, 1997–98, 2007–08 (as general manager)
References
- ↑ Giora Spiegel is done coaching, but he's not done
- ↑ גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- ↑ http://football.org.il/Archive/Articles/Pages/article_28december2012.aspx
External links
- Giora Spiegel at National-Football-Teams.com
- National team stats at IFA
- Stats at Bnei Yehuda
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