Personal information | |||
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Full name | Yohanan Sukenik | ||
Date of birth | 1909 | ||
Place of birth | Łódź, Russian Poland | ||
Date of death | 18 January 1986 75–76) | (aged||
Place of death | Israel | ||
Position(s) | Half back | ||
Youth career | |||
1923–1927 | Nordia Tel Aviv | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1927–1940 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | ||
International career | |||
1934–1938 | Eretz Israel | 4 | (1) |
Managerial career | |||
1945 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Yohanan Sukenik (Hebrew: יוחנן סוקניק) was a Jewish footballer, who played for Hapoel Tel Aviv and Mandatory Palestine national football team.[1]
Biography
Sukenik was born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Empire and immigrated to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1923.[2] A keen footballer, he joined Maccabi Tel Aviv's youth team, Nordia. In 1927 he moved to Hapoel Tel Aviv, with whom he played until retiring in 1940.[2] With the Hapoel Tel Aviv, Sukenik won 4 championships and 5 cups.
Sukenik was also part of the Mandatory Palestine national football team, playing four matches for the team, two against Egypt in 1934, scoring the consolation goal for Mandatory Palestine in a 1–4 defeat,[3][4] and two against Greece in 1938, including appearing as a substitute the first match between the teams.[5]
Sukenik retired in 1940, as he felt that playing football was damaging his feet and settled in Ramat Gan, where he worked as a builder. He tried his hand in coaching Hapoel Ramat Gan, but quit the position as he considered his players weren't making the effort to train properly and quit football altogether.[2]
Honours
References
- ↑ National Team Player Details – Sukenik Yohanan IFA (in Hebrew)
- 1 2 3 "5 Years I Haven't Seen Hapoel T.A…." Hadshot HaSport, 10 February 1957 (in Hebrew)
- ↑ Photographic Memory Asher Goldberg, 30 June 2002, Haaretz (in Hebrew)
- ↑ 1934 – Egypt Football Team in Tel Aviv Asher Goldberg, 2 January 2012, IFA (in Hebrew)
- ↑ An Historic Correction: The Line-Up Against Greece in 1938 Archived 2010-11-22 at the Wayback Machine Asher Goldberg, 22 November 2010, IFA (in Hebrew)