Goalkeeper
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Maccabi Haifa
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Israel
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Georgia women's national football team
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Iris Antman ( he, איריס אנטמן, , born 28 November 1975) is an Israeli football
manager
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and former player. She played as a
goalkeeper
In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting ...
for
Maccabi Haifa
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Antman started playing football at the age of 16, starting her playing career with
Maccabi Haifa
Maccabi Haifa ( he, מכבי חיפה) is one of the biggest sports clubs in Israel and a part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as Footbal ...
in the late 1990s, playing as a winger. An injury to the regular
goalkeeper
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, led her to play in that position, where she stayed. During her career she won 9 league titles and 8 cups. Despite playing as a goalkeeper, she scored a few goals, including a
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as an outfield player in a league game against Hapoel Marmorek in March 2010 and with a
penalty kick
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in the first round of the
2010–11 Israeli Women's Cup
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The competition was won by ASA Tel Aviv University who had beaten Macca ...
. The last game she played before announcing her retirement was with Maccabi Holon in the
2010–11 Israeli Women's Cup
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The competition was won by ASA Tel Aviv University who had beaten Macca ...
Final, which they lost 3–2 to
ASA Tel Aviv University
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.
During her time at Maccabi Holon, Antman was lovingly nicknamed "Grandma", due to most of the players being much younger than her. During her career, Antman averaged up to 6 goals conceded per season.
In April 2011, Antman announced her retirement from active playing. Despite this announcement, Antman stayed with the club, and two years later played in the 2012–13 Israeli Women's Cup Final, in which Maccabi Holon beat
Ramat HaSharon
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7–1, being substituted on in the 82nd minute. Before the game the
Israel Football Association
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hosted a special ceremony in honour of Antamn's retirement.
International career
Antman played for the Israeli senior national team, from 1997 to 2010. She played 40 games and has served as the team captain.
Managerial career
Following her retirement announcement, the
Israel Football Association
The Israel Football Association (IFA; he, ההתאחדות לכדורגל בישראל, ''HaHit'aḥdut leKaduregel beIsrael'', literally "The Association of Football in Israel") is the governing body of football in Israel. It organizes a varie ...
appointed Antman as a goalkeeping coaching for the Israeli youth national teams, both boys and girls.
In 2012 the Wingate Academy of Excellence opened for the first time and Iris was part of the coaching staff. From 2015 to 2019 she served as the coach of the girls 'under-16 team with which she won 6 development tournaments and at the same time also coached the under-17 girls' team of Israel, which for the first time qualified for the elite stage of the 2018 European Championship qualifiers for the top 16 in Europe. In 2019 she was appointed coach of the girls team up to the age of 19 and led her to promotion to the elite stage in the 2020 European Championship qualifiers for the top 16 in Europe.
Antman is the first woman to receive a pro coaching certificate in Israel and the first woman to coach a team in the Israel Football Association.
In 2019 Antman was accepted into the UEFA project mentor program of outstanding coaches and was accompanied for two years by the
manager
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Maccabi Kishronot Hadera
Maccabi Kishronot Hadera ( he, מכבי כשרונות חדרה) is an Israeli women's football club from Hadera competing in the Israeli First Division and the Israeli Women's Cup.
History
The club was established in 2004,Haifa Radio, broadcast on
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Galilee
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, and used to drive two hours to training in Holon. She is the sister-in-law of fellow Israeli former football goalkeeper and her trainer
Giora Antman
Giora Antman ( he, גיורא אנטמן; born 15 November 1962) is a former Israeli football player and currently the goalkeeping coach at Maccabi Haifa.
Antman was the goalkeeping coach at Maccabi Haifa for 18 years until he was replaced in 2 ...