{{Short description|Israeli footballer (born 1947)}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Giora Spiegel<br>גיורא שפיגל | image = Giora Spiegel 2.jpg | caption = Spiegel in 1991 | fullname = Giora Spiegel | height = 5 ft 11 in<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sp/giora-spiegel-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418102728/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sp/giora-spiegel-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18|title=Giora Spiegel Bio, Stats, and Results|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1947|7|27}} | birth_place = [[Petah Tikva]], [[Israel]] | currentclub = | position = [[Midfielder]] | years1 = 1965–1973 | years2 = 1973–1978 | years3 = 1978–1979 | years4 = 1979 | years5 = 1979–1980 | years6 = 1980–1981 | clubs1 = [[Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]] | clubs2 = [[RC Strasbourg|Strasbourg]] | clubs3 = [[Olympique Lyonnais|Lyon]] | clubs4 = [[Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]] | clubs5 = [[Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan F.C.|Hakoah Ramat Gan]] | clubs6 = [[Beitar Tel Aviv F.C.|Beitar Tel Aviv]] | caps1 = 176 | caps2 = 97 | caps3 = 43 | caps4 = 26 | caps5 = 28 | caps6 = 33 | goals1 = 68 | goals2 = 23 | goals3 = 9 | goals4 = 2 | goals5 = 6 | goals6 = 9 | totalcaps = 403 | totalgoals = 117 | nationalyears1 = | nationalteam1 = [[Israel national under-19 football team|Israel U-19]] | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = | nationalyears2 = 1965–1980 | nationalteam2 = [[Israel national football team|Israel]] | nationalcaps2 = 44 | nationalgoals2 = 18 | manageryears1 = 1983–1988 | manageryears2 = 1988–1989 | manageryears3 = 1989–1992 | manageryears4 = 1993–1998 | manageryears5 = 1999–2000 | manageryears6 = 2000–2002 | manageryears7 = 2007–2008 | managerclubs1 = [[Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C.|Hapoel Petah Tikva]] | managerclubs2 = [[Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]] | managerclubs3 = [[Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C.|Bnei Yehuda]] | managerclubs4 = [[Maccabi Haifa F.C.|Maccabi Haifa]] | managerclubs5 = [[Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C.|Bnei Yehuda]] | managerclubs6 = [[Hapoel Ironi Rishon LeZion F.C.|Ironi Rishon LeZion]] | managerclubs7 = [[Beitar Jerusalem F.C.|Beitar Jerusalem]] ([[General manager#Sports teams|general manager]]) }}
'''Giora Spiegel''' ({{langx|he|גיורא שפיגל}}; born July 27, 1947) is an Israeli former [[Association football|footballer]] and coach.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128744.html|title=Giora Spiegel is done coaching, but he's not done|access-date=2009-12-15|archive-date=2009-12-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091221133540/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128744.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> As a footballer, he holds the [[Israel national football team records|record]] for the longest [[Israel national football team|Israeli international]] career, spanning 14 years and 357 days.
==Biography== Born in [[Petah Tikva]], Giora Spiegel is the son of [[Eliezer Spiegel]], who played for [[Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C.|Maccabi Petah Tikva]] and the [[Israel national football team|Israel national team]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=njDXBQAAQBAJ&q=Giora+Spiegel&pg=PT16|title=The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue One|first1=Jonathan|last1=Wilson|first2=David|last2=Winner|first3=Philippe|last3=Auclair|first4=Dominic|last4=Sandbrook|first5=James|last5=Montague|first6=Anthony|last6=Clavane|first7=Sid|last7=Lowe|first8=Ben|last8=Lyttleton|first9=Simon|last9=Kuper|first10=Rob|last10=Smyth|date=26 May 2011|publisher=Blizzard Media Ltd|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>[https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Sports/Maccabi-Tel-Aviv-Hapoel-Haifa-battle-to-draw-515281 "Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Haifa battle to draw" - Israel News - ''Jerusalem Post''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He is Jewish.<ref>[https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=JPOST19680816-01.1.6 "ISRAEL LOSES PLAYERS TEL AVIV"], ''Jewish Post''.</ref> Spiegel attended [[Herzliya Hebrew High School]]. In university he studied accountancy.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5N8zAgAAQBAJ&q=Giora+Spiegel&pg=PT101|title=Back Home: England And The 1970 World Cup|first=Jeff|last=Dawson|date=16 August 2012|publisher=Orion Publishing Group|isbn=9781409127444|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Playing career== As a youth, he played with [[Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]], and was marked early on as a future talent. By age 17, he was leading the national U-21 side to Asian championships and by 18, he had been called up to the [[Israel national football team|full side]]. In the summer of 1970 he played as a forward for the Israel national team at the 1970 World Cup finals in Mexico.<ref name=autogenerated1>[https://www.jpost.com/Sports/Sporting-Heroes-for-60-years-No-33-Giora-Spiegel "Sporting Heroes for 60 years: No. 33 Giora Spiegel" - ''Jerusalem Post''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
In 1973, he fought with Maccabi manager, [[Jerry Beit haLevi]] over transferring to a club in France. He later left for France in 1974 to play for French side Strasbourg, returning in 1979 to rejoin Maccabi.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
==Managerial career== Spiegel began his career as a manager in [[Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C.|Hapoel Petah Tikva]] in the mid-1980s . After several years he moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv, which won the [[Israel State Cup|State Cup]]. After problems with some of the players and a 10–0 defeat to [[Maccabi Haifa F.C.|Maccabi Haifa]], Spiegel was fired.
In 1989, he moved to [[Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C.|Bnei Yehuda]], which won the [[List of Israeli football champions|Israeli Championship]] in 1990.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> In 1993, he moved to Maccabi Haifa.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180704005931/https://www.haaretz.com/1.5221978 "Soccer / Giora Spiegel is done coaching, but he's not done" | ''Haaretz''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The team won the Israeli Championship that year<ref name=autogenerated1 /> without losing a single game the whole season. Under his lead, Haifa won the State Cup twice, in 1995 and in 1998.
In 1999, Spiegel returned to Bnei Yehuda. After one unsuccessful season with the club, he moved to [[Hapoel Ironi Rishon LeZion F.C.|Ironi Rishon LeZion]] for two years.
In July 2007, after an absence of five years from the Israeli football scene, Spiegel was hired by [[Beitar Jerusalem F.C.|Beitar Jerusalem]] as its [[General manager#Sports teams|general manager]].<ref name=autogenerated1 /> That year, the team won the [[Double (association football)|Double]]. In August 2008, he retired.
==Honours==
===As a player=== '''Maccabi Tel Aviv''' *[[List of Israeli football champions|Israeli championships]]: [[Liga Leumit 1966–68|1967–68]], [[Liga Leumit 1969–70|1969–70]], [[Liga Leumit 1971–72|1971–72]], [[Liga Leumit 1978–79|1978–79]] *[[Israel State Cup]]: 1966–67, 1969–70, 1976–77 *[[AFC Champions League|Asian Club Championship]]: [[Asian Club Championship 1969|1968–69]], [[Asian Club Championship 1971|1970–71]]
'''Israel''' *[[AFC U-19 Championship|AFC Youth Championship]]: [[1965 AFC Youth Championship|1965]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://football.org.il/Archive/Articles/Pages/article_28december2012.aspx |title=The Israel Football Association |access-date=2013-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930222716/http://football.org.il/Archive/Articles/Pages/article_28december2012.aspx |archive-date=2015-09-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
'''Individual''' * Member of the [[Israeli Football Hall of Fame]] (2009)
===As manager=== ;Maccabi Tel Aviv *[[Israel State Cup|Israeli state cup]]: [[1987–88 Israel State Cup|1988]] ;Bnei Yehuda *[[List of Israeli football champions|Israeli league championship]]: [[1989–90 Liga Leumit|1989–90]] ;Maccabi Haifa *[[List of Israeli football champions|Israeli league championship]]: [[1993–94 Liga Leumit|1993–94]] *[[Israel State Cup|Israeli state cup]]: [[1992–93 Israel State Cup|1993]], [[1994–95 Israel State Cup|1995]]
==See also== *[[List of Jews in sports#Football (Association; Soccer)|List of select Jewish association football (soccer) players]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{NFT player|20577}} *{{IFA league player|id=80768}} *[https://archive.today/20110721135057/http://www.fc-bnei-yehuda.co.il/cgi-bin/SheepWool/sheepwool.pl?%D7%92%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%90_%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%92%D7%9C Stats] at Bnei Yehuda
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