Felix Naim () is an Israeli

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manager and former player who manages Hapoel Afula.

Career

Naim was a

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player who played for Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin and for the Israel U-18 team. He turned into football when he was 18 years old when he started to play for HaTzair Haifa youth team and then moved to play for the senior side of Maccabi Neve Sha'anan, there he played with

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. He moved to France there he played a bit in the fifth tier. From 1997 til 2001 he worked as Guttman's scout, Naim was the one who brought

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to play in Israel. Later on Naim stopped working for Guttman and decided to start his career as a manager in clubs from the lower divisions in Israel.

Honours

Hapoel Kfar Saba *

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: 2013–14 *

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runner-up : 2014–15

References

1960 births Living people Jewish Israeli sportspeople Footballers from Haifa Israeli football managers Hapoel Afula F.C. managers Ahva Arraba F.C. managers Hapoel Kfar Saba F.C. managers Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. managers Bnei Sakhnin F.C. managers Israeli Premier League managers Israeli people of French-Jewish descent Men's association football players not categorized by position Israeli men's footballers 20th-century Israeli sportsmen {{Israel-footy-bio-stub