Niv Antman (; born 2 August 1992) is an Israeli footballer currently playing in
Hapoel Haifa
Hapoel Haifa Football Club (, ''Moadon HaKaduregel Hapoel Haifa'') is an Israeli professional football club located in the city of Haifa. The club won one championship (1998–99) and 4 Israeli cups (1962–63, 1965–66 and 1973–74, 2 ...
.
Career
Antman, the son of veteran goalkeeper
Giora Antman
Giora Antman (; born 15 November 1962) is an Israeli former 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 2012 by Avi Peretz. After ...
, played in his youth career in
Maccabi Tzur Shalom and
Maccabi Haifa
Maccabi Haifa () 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 Football, Basketball, Weightl ...
, before moving to
Hapoel Haifa
Hapoel Haifa Football Club (, ''Moadon HaKaduregel Hapoel Haifa'') is an Israeli professional football club located in the city of Haifa. The club won one championship (1998–99) and 4 Israeli cups (1962–63, 1965–66 and 1973–74, 2 ...
. Antman graduated to the senior team in 2012 and got his break at the first team as replacement for an injured first goalkeeper
Tvrtko Kale
Tvrtko Kale (now Dreshler Kale, ; born 5 June 1974) is a retired Croatian-Israeli footballer who played as of July 2015 for Maccabi Kiryat Gat. The newspaper ''Slobodna Dalmacija'' rated him the best player in the Croatian First League in 2004.
...
, playing 6 full matches during the
2013–14 season. In 2015, Antman returned to the team's starting lineup.
In 2011, Antman played two matches with the
Israel U19 team, against
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...
.
Antman Niv
IFA
References
1992 births
Living people
Jewish Israeli sportspeople
Israeli men's footballers
21st-century Israeli sportsmen
Footballers from Haifa
Hapoel Haifa F.C. players
Hapoel Rishon LeZion F.C. players
FC Dordrecht players
Ironi Nesher F.C. players
Hapoel Ra'anana A.F.C. players
Sektzia Ness Ziona F.C. players
Israeli Premier League players
Liga Leumit players
Eerste Divisie players
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Israeli expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Israel men's under-21 international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
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