Yossi Mizrahi

Yossi Mizrahi
יוסי מזרחי
Personal information
Full name Yosef Mizrahi
Date of birth (1953-04-04) April 4, 1953[1]
Place of birth Jerusalem, Israel
Playing position Goalkeeper
Youth career
Hapoel Jerusalem[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1974–1988 Beitar Jerusalem[1] 371 (0)
1988–1989 Hapoel Lod[1]
1989–1990 Shimshon Tel Aviv[1]
National team
1979–1981[2] Israel 9 (0[2])
Teams managed
1994 Beitar Jerusalem (assistant manager)
1994–1995 Beitar Jerusalem
1995–1999 Hapoel Jerusalem
1999–2001 Maccabi Petah Tikva
2002 Beitar Jerusalem
2002–2004 Israel (assistant manager)
2004 F.C. Ashdod
2006–2007 Beitar Jerusalem
2007 Maccabi Petah Tikva
2007–2008 Apollon Limassol
2008–2010 F.C. Ashdod
2010–2011 Maccabi Tel Aviv
2011–2013 F.C. Ashdod
2013-2015 Maccabi Netanya
2016 Bnei Yehuda
2016- Hapoel Jerusalem

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Yossi Mizrahi (Hebrew: יוסי מזרחי, born 1953) is a retired Israeli goalkeeper and manager in Israeli Premier League.

Biography

Yosef (Yossi) Mizrahi was born in Jerusalem, Israel on April 4, 1953. He grew up in Katamon and studied at Ma'aleh state religious school. As a teenager, he played on the youth team of Hapoel Jerusalem.

In 1974–1987, Mizrahi was the goalkeeper for Beitar Jerusalem. Two years after he joined the team, it won the State Cup for the first time.[3] In 1994, Mizrahi was assistant coach under Amatzia Levkovic. In 1994, Levkovic was fired four games into the season and Mizrahi was appointed head coach. He later coached Hapoel Jerusalem, Maccabi Petah Tikva, F.C. Ashdod, Beitar Jerusalem FC, Apollon Limassol (Cyprus) and worked with Avram Grant as assistant coach in Israel's 2004 European Championship qualifying campaign.[4]

Mizrahi is described as an "impeccable tactician, capable of turning wretched teams around and loved by his players." [3]

Despite him winning the Championship with Beitar Jerusalem in the end of the season of 2006/07, Mizrahi was fired from the Club and signed with Apollon Limassol in Cyprus.

On April 21, 2008, Mizrahi left Apollon Limassol and returned to manage F.C. Ashdod.[5]

On May 20, 2010, Mizrahi resigned from F.C. Ashdod.

On June 10, 2010, Mizrahi signed in Maccabi Tel Aviv.

On January 4, 2011, Mizrahi resigned from Maccabi Tel Aviv.

On April 18, 2011, Mizrahi signed in F.C. Ashdod.

References

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