Avraham Nudelman () was an Israeli footballer who played for
Hapoel Tel Aviv
Hapoel Tel Aviv () is a sports club in Israel, founded in the 1920s, and part of the Hapoel association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Tel Aviv which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as football, basketball, w ...
and
Mandatory Palestine national football team
The Mandatory Palestine national football team, also known as the ''Eretz Israel'' national football team (), represented the British Mandate of Palestine in international football competitions, and was managed by the Palestine Football Ass ...
during the
British Mandate era.
Playing career
Nudelman was born in
Menashiya
Manshiya (, ) was a residential neighbourhood of Jaffa in Mandatory Palestine.
Manshiyya was located on the border between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, on the seafront north of the harbor.Dumper & Stanley, eds. (2007). The neighbourhood was destroyed in ...
neighborhood of
Jaffa
Jaffa (, ; , ), also called Japho, Joppa or Joppe in English, is an ancient Levantine Sea, Levantine port city which is part of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, located in its southern part. The city sits atop a naturally elevated outcrop on ...
in 1910, and started playing football with local youth club Allenby Tel Aviv, which was initially affiliated with
Maccabi Tel Aviv
Maccabi Tel Aviv () is one of the largest sports clubs in Israel, and a part of the Maccabi association. Many sports clubs and teams in Tel Aviv are in association with Maccabi and compete in a variety of sports, such as football, basketball, j ...
, but its members decided to withdraw from Maccabi, due to the professional attitude towards sports and merged in 1927 with
Hapoel Tel Aviv
Hapoel Tel Aviv () is a sports club in Israel, founded in the 1920s, and part of the Hapoel association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Tel Aviv which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as football, basketball, w ...
. With Hapoel, Nudelman stayed until 1938, when he retired from football in favor of his day job as a worker in
Tel Aviv Harbor. Nudelman won 3
championships
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Championship systems
Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship.
Title match system
In this sys ...
and 4
cups
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, scoring goals in the
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris B ...
and
1938
Events
January
* January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS).
* January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
cup finals.
Nudelman was also part of the
Mandatory Palestine national football team
The Mandatory Palestine national football team, also known as the ''Eretz Israel'' national football team (), represented the British Mandate of Palestine in international football competitions, and was managed by the Palestine Football Ass ...
, and played three matches for the team, two against
Egypt
Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
in 1934, scoring the consolation goal for Mandatory Palestine in a 1–7 defeat, and one against
Greece
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in 1938, after which he retired from the national team.
Personal life
During
World War II
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, Nudelman was drafted to the
British Army
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, where he served as a driver. After the
1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war becam ...
, Nudelman was given a work as a
chauffeur
A chauffeur () is a person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicle such as a large sedan or a limousine.
Initially, such drivers were often personal employees of the vehicle owner, but this has changed to s ...
in the
Ministry of Defense
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and played for the ministry's football team.
A Nice Competition
Al HaMishmar, 25 January 1955, Historical Jewish Press
Honours
* League Championships (3):
** 1933–34, 1934–35, 1937–38
*Cup
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(4):
**1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris B ...
, 1934
Events
January–February
* January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.
* January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
, 1937
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Feb ...
, 1938
Events
January
* January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS).
* January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
External links
Avraham Nudelman
Hapoel Wiki
Nucha: The Cup Is Mine
Ya'akov Bar-On, Hadshot HaSport, 18 October 1967, via wiki.red-fans.com
Football and Merriment in… Beirut
Pinchas Zahavi, Hadshot HaSport, 10 April 1970, via wiki.red-fans.com
References
1910 births
1985 deaths
20th-century Israeli Jews
Jews from Ottoman Palestine
Jews from Mandatory Palestine
Israeli men's footballers
Mandatory Palestine men's footballers
Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. players
Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim F.C. managers
Footballers from Jaffa
Men's association football wingers
Israeli football managers
Mandatory Palestine men's international footballers
20th-century Israeli sportsmen
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