Mordechai Spiegler
Mordechai "Motaleh" Shpigler (Hebrew: מרדכי שפיגלר, born 19 August 1944) is an Israeli former footballer and manager. He remains Israel's record goalscorer, with 33 goals in 83 caps.[4]
 Shpigler (right) and sportscaster Yoram Arbel | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name |
Mordechai Shpigler מרדכי שפיגלר | ||
| Date of birth | 19 August 1944 | ||
| Place of birth | Sochi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.79 m) [1] | ||
| Playing position(s) | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1957–1961 | Maccabi Netanya | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1963–1971 | Maccabi Netanya | 255 | (168) |
| 1972–1973 | Paris FC | 39 | (11) |
| 1973–1974 | Paris Saint-Germain | 13 | (10) |
| 1974–1975 | Maccabi Netanya | 26 | (5) |
| 1975 | New York Cosmos | 17 | (6) |
| 1975–1978 | Maccabi Netanya | 61 | (11) |
| 1978–1979 | Hapoel Haifa | 20 | (1) |
| 1981–1982 | Beitar Tel Aviv (player-manager) | 15 | (2[2]) |
| Total | 446 | (214) | |
| National team | |||
| 1963–1977 | Israel | 83 | (33) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1979 | Maccabi Haifa | ||
| 1979–1980 | Hapoel Haifa | ||
| 1980–1982 | Beitar Tel Aviv | ||
| 1982–1984 | Maccabi Netanya | ||
| 1984 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | ||
| 1985 | Maccabi Jaffa | ||
| 1990–1992 | Maccabi Netanya | ||
| 1994–1996 | Tzafririm Holon[3] | ||
| 2013 | Maccabi Netanya (general manager) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Biography
Mordechai Shpigler was born in Sochi, Soviet Union, and is Jewish.[1][5][6][7] He moved to Netanya, Israel, when he was a boy.[8]
Playing career
Club career
As a striker, he played for Maccabi Netanya along with Paris Saint Germain in France and alongside Pelé for New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League in the 1970s.[9]
He was chosen as the Israeli Player of the Year a record four times, in 1967/68, 1968/69, 1969/70, and in 1970/71.[10]
International career
Shpigler made his international debut for Israel on 2 January 1964 against Hong Kong. He took part in the Israeli win in the 1964 AFC Asian Cup, and scored 2 goals at the tournament, which made him a joint top scorer of the tournament.[11]
His major achievement was helping Israel qualify for the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. He scored Israel's lone goal in World Cup history in a 1–1 draw against Sweden.[12]
His 32 goals for the national team (according to IFA count, FIFA counts only 25 of them)[5] is the Israeli record. Shpigler scored 25 goals in 62 'official' internationals for the Israeli national side, he also played in 21 other 'unofficial' matches (mostly Olympic Games qualifiers) scoring seven more goals.
Shpigler captained the Israeli Olympic team at Mexico City 1968 which reached the quarter-finals, losing to Bulgaria by a draw after the match ended 1–1.[13]
International
| Israel national team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 1963 | 1 | 0 |
| 1964 | 6 | 3 |
| 1965 | 5 | 0 |
| 1966 | 8 | 4 |
| 1967 | 1 | 0 |
| 1968 | 12 | 15 |
| 1969 | 8 | 3 |
| 1970 | 6 | 3 |
| 1971 | 4 | 1 |
| 1972 | 5 | 1 |
| 1973 | 6 | 1 |
| 1974 | - | - |
| 1975 | - | - |
| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| Total | 83 | 33 |
International goals
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Post-playing career
He was nominated as the best Israeli player of the prior 50 years by the Israel Football Association in the UEFA Jubilee Awards in November 2003.[15] Shpigler is a member of the Education and Publicity Committee of the IFA.[16]
In 2007, he won a lifetime contributions special award for the Israeli national team in the 1970 FIFA World Cup, determined by Yedioth Ahronoth and the Israeli football player association.[17]
Honours
Player
Club
- Israeli Premier League (2):1970–71, 1977–78
- Israel State Cup (1): 1977–78
- Israeli Supercup (2): 1971, 1978
Individual
- Israeli Premier League – Top Goalscorer (3): 1965–66, 1967–68, 1968–69
- Israeli Player of the Year (4): 1965–66, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71
- Member of the Israeli Football Hall of Fame
Manager
Club
- Beitar Tel Aviv
- Israeli Premier League (1): 1982–83
- Israeli Supercup (1): 1983
- UEFA Intertoto Cup (2): 1983, 1984
- League Cup (2): 1982, 1983
Managerial stats
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | W | D | L | Win % | ||||||
| Maccabi Haifa |  |
1979 | 1979 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | ||
| Hapoel Haifa | |
1979 | 1980 | 30 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 26.67 | ||
| Beitar Tel Aviv | |
1980 | 1982 | 65 | 28 | 21 | 16 | 43.08 | ||
| Maccabi Netanya | |
1982 | 1984 | 80 | 44 | 17 | 19 | 55.00 | ||
| Hapoel Tel Aviv | |
1984 | 1984 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12.50 | ||
| Maccabi Jaffa | |
1985 | 1985 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 41.67 | ||
| Maccabi Netanya | |
1990 | 1992 | 86 | 27 | 26 | 33 | 31.40 | ||
| Tzafririm Holon | |
1994 | 1996 | 55 | 19 | 9 | 27 | 34.55 | ||
| Total | 339 | 132 | 92 | 115 | 38.94 | |||||
See also
- Sports in Israel
- List of select Jewish association football (soccer) players
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mordechai Shpigler". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- Mordechai Spiegler at National-Football-Teams.com
- http://maccabi-haifafc.walla.co.il/?w=/392/@game
- Shpigler the scoring sensation UEFA, 21 June 2004
- Day by Day in Jewish Sports History - Bob Wechsler
- Great Jews in Sports - Robert Slater
- https://www.thejc.com/news/news-features/jewish-footballers-world-cup-2018-1.465521
- "Shpigler 60 Sporting Heroes for 60 Years: No.2 Mordechai Shpigler" - Jerusalem Post
- Mordechaï Shpigler : « J’espère une finale France-Brésil le 15 juillet » - Actualité Juive
- "Israel – Player of the Year" Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
- "Op-Ed: When Iran and Israel faced off" | JerusalemOnline
- Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?: The Story of English Football's Forgotten ... - Anthony Clavane
- "Israel’s little-known contribution to soccer history - penalty shootouts" - Haaretz
- http://www.football.org.il/NationalTeam/Pages/NationalTeamPlayerGameList.aspx?PLAYER_ID=80558&NATIONAL_TEAM_ID=3
- Golden Players take centre stage UEFA
- Committees Archived 18 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine Israel Football Association (in Hebrew)
- Lifetime Contribution Prize Archived 25 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine Israeli Football Player Association (IFPA)
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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