Tomer Ben Yosef (; born September 2, 1979) is an Israeli

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player who plays as a

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. He started playing for

Maccabi Petah Tikva Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. (; "Maccabi Avshalom Ironi Petah Tikva F.C., ) is an Israeli professional football club based in the city of Petah Tikva. It is part of the Maccabi World Union for international Jewish sports clubs. The club is the c ...

in the Youth level alongside team-mates such as

Gal Alberman Gal Alberman (; born 17 April 1983) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Club career Maccabi Petah Tikva Alberman was born in Oranit, Israel, to a Jewish family. Alberman started playing for Maccab ...

and

Omer Golan Omer Golan (; born 4 October 1982) is a former Israeli footballer. He played as a striker for his home club Maccabi Petah Tikva and for Lokeren. Club career Maccabi Petah Tikva Golan played in the youth ranks of Maccabi Petah Tikva, before b ...

. In his 10 years in Petah Tikva, Tomer won the

Toto Cup The Israel Toto Cup (, ''Gvia Ha'Toto'') is an association football tournament that features clubs in the two highest divisions in Israel: the Israeli Premier League Ligat ha'Al, Ligat Ha'Al; and the Israeli 2nd division Liga Leumit. Both of the ...

, reached 2nd place in the league and also the State Cup Final. In 2005 Ben Yosef was transferred to

Beitar Jerusalem Beitar Jerusalem Football Club (), commonly known as Beitar Jerusalem () or simply Beitar (), is an Israeli professional football club based in the city of Jerusalem, that plays in the Israeli Premier League, the top tier in Israeli football ...

. In 2006 the veteran

Arik Benado Ariel "Arik" Benado (; born 5 December 1973) is an Israeli association football, football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. Playing career Benado was a second-generation player at one of Israel's major association footbal ...

moved to Beitar. Initially, there were doubts whether Ben Yosef would stay in Beitar but eventually he stayed and maintained a consistent fixed role in the squad. In September 2012, Ben-Yosef signed at

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 ...

for one year, After being released from

Honours

* Israeli championships ** 2006–07, 2007–08 * State Cup **

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

**2003-04, 2009–10

References

External links

*http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3906732,00.html * *http://www.nrg.co.il/online/3/ART1/789/607.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20110721140457/http://sportline.co.il/?p=2083 1979 births Living people Jewish Israeli sportspeople Israeli men's footballers Men's association football defenders Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. players Beitar Jerusalem F.C. players Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. players Liga Leumit players Israeli Premier League players Footballers from Petah Tikva Israel men's international footballers {{Israel-footy-defender-stub