Eliezer Spiegel
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 20 June 1922 | ||
| Place of birth | Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1938–40 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | ||
| 1940–44 | Beitar Tel Aviv | ||
| 1946–57 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | ||
| National team | |||
| 1948–56 | Israel | 3 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1955–57 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | ||
| 1957 | Maccabi Hadera | ||
| 1957–58 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | ||
| 1959 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | ||
| 1959–60 | Maccabi Hadera | ||
| 1960–61 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | ||
| 1961–62 | Shimshon Tel Aviv | ||
| 1962–65 | Beitar Netanya | ||
| 1965–66 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | ||
| 1966–67 | Beitar Netanya | ||
| 1967–69 | Maccabi Sha'arayim | ||
| 1969–74 | Hakoah Ramat Gan | ||
| 1974–75 | Maccabi Netanya | ||
| 1977–78 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | ||
| 1978–79 | Maccabi Herzliya | ||
| 1979–81 | Hapoel Jerusalem | ||
| 1981–82 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | ||
| 1982–84 | Maccabi Jaffa | ||
| 1984–86 | Israel U-21 | ||
| 1986–87 | Hapoel Marmorek | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Eliezer Spiegel (Hebrew: אליעזר שפיגל; born 20 June 1922) is a former footballer and manager, who played for Maccabi Petah Tikva, Beitar Tel Aviv and for the Israel national football team in the 1940s and 1950s.
Spiegel started playing football as in Maccabi Petah Tikva, playing against CAM Timișoara when the Romanian team visited Palestine in winter 1939. Spiegel appeared with Maccabi Petah Tikva in the 1939 Palestine Cup final, losing to Hapoel Tel Aviv 1–2.
In 1940, Spiegel moved to Beitar Tel Aviv and reached the 1942 Palestine Cup final, scoring 8 goals in the match, in which Beitar won 12–1 against Maccabi Haifa. In 1944, Spiegel was arrested as a suspected member of the Irgun and was sent to internment in Sembel camp, Eritrea, where he stayed until June 1946. Upon his release, Spiegel returned to Maccabi Petah Tikva, with whom he stayed until his retirement in 1957, winning the State Cup with the team in 1952 and winning top goal scorer in 1953–54.
Spiegel played three official matches for the national team between 1948 and 1956. Spiegel was part of the squad in Israel's inaugural match, against the U.S.A., assisting Israel's lone goal of the match in a 1–3 defeat. and later played for the national team against Cyprus in 1949 and made his final appearance for the national team 7 years late, in Israel's final match in the Asian Cup, against South Vietnam. I addition, Spiegel played two unofficial matches for the national team, scoring one goal in an informal meeting between the national teams of Israel and Cyprus, which was billed as a match between Tel Aviv and Nicosia
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