Giora Spiegel

Giora Spiegel

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Personal information
Full name	Giora Spiegel
Date of birth	(1947-07-27) July 27, 1947
Place of birth	Petah Tikva, Mandate Palestine
Position(s)	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)
International career‡
	Israel U-19
1965–1980	Israel	44	(18)
Managerial career
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)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, 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. 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

As a Player

• AFC Youth Championship (1):
  • 1965
• 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)

External links

• Giora Spiegel at National-Football-Teams.com
• National team stats at IFA
• Stats at Bnei Yehuda