Abraham Bendori (June 21, 1928 - January 15, 2019) - an Israeli footballer, goalkeeper, played for Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Israeli team [1] . He later worked as a coach.
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| Full name | Abraham Bendory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 21, 1928 Tel Aviv , Palestine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | January 15, 2019 (90 years) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Israel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | goalkeeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
Bendori was born in Tel Aviv in 1928 and at the age of 13 began playing football at the Maccabi Tel Aviv Academy [2] . He was part of the Maccabi youth team, which in the mid-1940s won the youth championship [3] . In 1946, he was transferred to the main team and played in the club until the end of the 1959/60 season, winning six champion titles and six cups .
Bendori was also a player in the Israeli national football team, but played only four matches, as the main goalkeeper of the national team at that time was Yaakov Khodorov . Bendori played in the first match in the history of the Israeli national team - against the United States [4] , but then did not appear on the field in official matches until 1958, when, due to an injury, Khodorov played in two matches of the group stage of the 1958 Asian Games [5] . He played his last match for Israel against Poland in Wroclaw , in which Bendory conceded five goals and was replaced in the 64th minute. Israel lost with a score of 2: 7, and the match went down in history as the “Wroclaw shame” [6] [7] .
After leaving sports, Bendori coached several Israeli teams, but did not achieve much success [8] , and also worked as the director of the national team.
Beyond Football
At the age of 20, Bendori became a member of the Arab-Israeli war , fought in the detachment " Fox Samson ." He was wounded on the Egyptian front, near Iraq, Suwaidan, when his jeep was shelled. Bendory was hospitalized for several weeks and managed to recover before the tour of the US national team [9] [10] [11] . Playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bendory worked for the Dan bus company [12] .
Notes
- ↑ Bendori Avraham Archived December 21, 2016 by Wayback Machine IFA (Hebrew)
- ↑ The Goalkeeper Who Left Few Holes in the Net (unopened) // Hadshot HaSport. - 1955. - April 10 ( vol. 1 , No. 54 ). - S. 6 .
- ↑ The Football Team Took Off to Belgrade (link not available) Lifa Leviathan, Herut, 19 August 1949, Historical Jewish Press (Hebrew)
- ↑ The First Independence Team on Tour to the USA Archived March 3, 2016 at Wayback Machine Asher Goldberg, May 9, 2011, IFA (Hebrew)
- ↑ Bendori in the Israeli Goal Against Persia (Neopr.) // Hadshot HaSport. - 1958. - 26 May ( t. 4 , No. 404 ). - S. 1 . (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Poland Had Beaten Israel 7: 2 (3: 1) (link not available) Herut, 22 June 1959, Historical Jewish Press (Hebrew)
- ↑ So I Have Removed the Wrocław Shame David Assaf, 11 July 2013, Oneg Shabat (Hebrew)
- ↑ Hapoel Ramat Gan vs. Maccabi Jaffa 1971 Yaron Bar Lev, Shlomo Mann and Elisha Shohat, HaMakhtesh (Hebrew)
- ↑ Goalkeeper and Warrior: When Avraham Bendori Came Up for Defense Tomer Ganor, April 25, 2012, Ynet (Hebrew)
- ↑ Four, Four on the Thundering Jeep Doron Bar, April 14, 2013, Ma'ariv (Hebrew)
- ↑ "Get Up Mongol, We're Going to the USA Archived December 20, 2016 at Wayback Machine Asher Goldberg, September 25, 2012, IFA (Hebrew)
- ↑ Once Players Drove Differently Asher Goldberg, December 1, 2004, Walla! (Hebrew)