Giora Spiegel

Giora Spiegel
Personal information
Full name Giora Spiegel
Date of birth (1947-07-27) July 27, 1947
Place of birth Petah Tikva, Mandate Palestine
Playing position Manager (former Midfielder)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19651973 Maccabi Tel Aviv 176 (68)
19731978 Strasbourg 97 (23)
19781979 Lyon 43 (9)
1979 Maccabi Tel Aviv 26 (2)
19791980 Hakoah Ramat Gan 28 (6)
19801981 Beitar Tel Aviv 33 (9)
National team
Israel U-19
19651980 Israel 44 (18)
Teams managed
19831988 Hapoel Petah Tikva
19881989 Maccabi Tel Aviv
19891992 Bnei Yehuda
19931998 Maccabi Haifa
19992000 Bnei Yehuda
20002002 Ironi Rishon LeZion
20072008 Beitar Jerusalem (general manager)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of December 10, 2006.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of December 10, 2006

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.

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

Club

Maccabi Tel Aviv

International

Israel Israel

Individual

Club

Maccabi Tel Aviv
Bnei Yehuda
Maccabi Haifa

(general manager)

Beitar Jerusalem

References

External links

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