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 82 caps.[4]

Mordechai Shpigler
Personal information
Full name Mordechai Shpigler
מרדכי שפיגלר
Date of birth (1944-08-19) 19 August 1944
Place of birth Sochi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.79 m) [1]
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
Asian Cup football 1964

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
YearAppsGoals
1963 10
1964 63
1965 50
1966 84
1967 10
1968 1215
1969 83
1970 63
1971 41
1972 51
1973 61
1974 --
1975 --
1976 30
1977 80
Total 8333

International goals

[14]

#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.2 January 1964Government Stadium, Wan Chai Hong Kong Hong Kong3–0WinFriendly
2.26 May 1964Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel Hong Kong1–0Win1964 AFC Asian Cup
3.29 May 1964Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel India2–0Win1964 AFC Asian Cup
4.28 November 1964Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel Yugoslavia2–0WinFriendly
5.6 April 1966Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel Finland7–1WinFriendly
6.6 April 1966Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel Finland7–1WinFriendly
7.15 June 1966Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel Uruguay1–2LossFriendly
8.12 October 1966Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel Yugoslavia1–3LossFriendly
9.14 February 1968Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel  Switzerland2–1WinFriendly
10.14 February 1968Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel  Switzerland2–1WinFriendly
11.17 March 1968Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel Ceylon7–0WinFriendly
12.17 March 1968Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel Ceylon7–0WinFriendly
13.17 March 1968Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel Ceylon7–0WinFriendly
14.12 May 1968Amjadieh Stadium, Tehran, Iran Hong Kong6–1Win1968 AFC Asian Cup
15.12 May 1968Amjadieh Stadium, Tehran, Iran Hong Kong6–1Win1968 AFC Asian Cup
16.10 September 1968Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel Northern Ireland2–3LossFriendly
17.15 September 1968Yankee Stadium New York City, United States United States3–3DrawFriendly
18.15 September 1968Yankee Stadium New York City, United States United States3–3DrawFriendly
19.25 September 1968Temple Stadium, Philadelphia, USA United States4–0WinFriendly
20.25 September 1968Temple Stadium, Philadelphia, USA United States4–0WinFriendly
21.25 September 1968Temple Stadium, Philadelphia, USA United States4–0WinFriendly
22.25 September 1968Temple Stadium, Philadelphia, USA United States4–0WinFriendly
23.15 October 1968Estadio Nou Camp, León, Guanajuato, Mexico El Salvador3–1Win1968 Summer Olympics
24.28 September 1969Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel New Zealand2–0Win1970 FIFA World Cup qualification
25.1 October 1969Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel New Zealand4–0Win1970 FIFA World Cup qualification
26.14 December 1969Sydney Sports Ground, Sydney, Australia Australia1–1Draw1970 FIFA World Cup qualification
27.22 March 1970Addis Ababa Stadium, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ethiopia5–1WinFriendly
28.7 June 1970Estadio Luis Dosal, Toluca, Mexico Sweden1–1Draw1970 FIFA World Cup
29.11 November 1971Lang Park, Brisbane, Australia Australia2–2DrawFriendly
30.28 March 1972Bogyoke Aung San Stadium, Yangon, Burma India1–0Win1972 Summer Olympics qualification
31.16 May 1973Seoul, South Korea Japan2–1Win1974 FIFA World Cup qualification
32.21 May 1973Seoul, South Korea Thailand6–0Win1974 FIFA World Cup qualification

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

Club
Maccabi Netanya

International
Israel

Individual

Club
Beitar Tel Aviv
Maccabi Netanya

Managerial stats
Team Nat From To Record
PWDLWin %
Maccabi Haifa 1979 1979 3 0 0 3 000.00
Hapoel Haifa 1979 1980 30 8 11 11 026.67
Beitar Tel Aviv 1980 1982 65 28 21 16 043.08
Maccabi Netanya 1982 1984 80 44 17 19 055.00
Hapoel Tel Aviv 1984 1984 8 1 3 4 012.50
Maccabi Jaffa 1985 1985 12 5 5 2 041.67
Maccabi Netanya 1990 1992 86 27 26 33 031.40
Tzafririm Holon 1994 1996 55 19 9 27 034.55
Total 339 132 92 115 038.94

See also

References
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  2. Mordechai Spiegler at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. http://maccabi-haifafc.walla.co.il/?w=/392/@game
  4. "Mordechai Spiegler". RSSSF.
  5. Day by Day in Jewish Sports History - Bob Wechsler
  6. Great Jews in Sports - Robert Slater
  7. https://www.thejc.com/news/news-features/jewish-footballers-world-cup-2018-1.465521
  8. "Shpigler 60 Sporting Heroes for 60 Years: No.2 Mordechai Shpigler" - Jerusalem Post
  9. Mordechaï Shpigler : « J’espère une finale France-Brésil le 15 juillet » - Actualité Juive
  10. "Israel – Player of the Year" Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
  11. "Op-Ed: When Iran and Israel faced off" | JerusalemOnline
  12. Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?: The Story of English Football's Forgotten ... - Anthony Clavane
  13. "Israel’s little-known contribution to soccer history - penalty shootouts" - Haaretz
  14. http://www.football.org.il/NationalTeam/Pages/NationalTeamPlayerGameList.aspx?PLAYER_ID=80558&NATIONAL_TEAM_ID=3
  15. Golden Players take centre stage UEFA
  16. Committees Archived 18 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine Israel Football Association (in Hebrew)
  17. Lifetime Contribution Prize Archived 25 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine Israeli Football Player Association (IFPA)
  18. "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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