Almog Cohen

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Almog Cohen
Cohen, Almog Ingolstadt 17-18 (3) WP.jpg
in the jersey of Ingolstadt (2017)
Personnel
Surname אלמוג כהן
birthday September 1, 1988
place of birth Be'er Sheva ,  Israel
size 170 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1998-2006 Beitar Tubruk
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2006-2010 Maccabi Netanya 89 0(8)
2010-2013 1. FC Nuremberg 58 0(2)
2013 →  Hapoel Tel Aviv  (loan) 12 0(1)
2013-2019 FC Ingolstadt 04 126 (11)
2019– Maccabi Netanya 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2007-2010 Israel U21 12 0(0)
2010– Israel 23 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of June 21, 2019

2 As of December 19, 2017

Almog Cohen ( Hebrew אלמוג כהן, Born September 1, 1988 in Beersheba ) is an Israeli soccer player who is under contract with Maccabi Netanja .

Career

societies

Beginning in Israel

Cohen started his career at Beitar Tubruk and moved to Maccabi Netanja in 2006 . In 2007 he made the jump to the U21 national team.

1. FC Nuremberg

In spring 2010 he signed a three-year contract with Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg . In the first half of the 2010/11 season he was used regularly and played his first 90-minute game on the last first half of the season . In the second half of the season he almost always started from the beginning. On January 29, 2011 (30th matchday) he scored his first competitive goal for 1. FC Nürnberg in the league game against Hamburger SV with the goal to make it 2-0. In April 2011, Cohen extended his contract to June 30, 2014.

Loan to Hapoel Tel Aviv

At the beginning of February it was announced that Cohen would be loaned to the Israeli football club Hapoel Tel Aviv at his own request until the summer of 2013 .

Almog Cohen 2011

FC Ingolstadt 04

The loan contract lasted only five months, as Cohen opted for the second division club FC Ingolstadt 04 , which provided him with a three-year contract. Despite the relegation of his club to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2017 , he extended the contract period by three years ahead of time until June 30, 2021.

Return to the Homeland

After relegation from the 2nd Bundesliga, team captain Cohen prematurely terminated his contract after six years in Ingolstadt in the summer of 2019 and returned to his first professional club Maccabi Netanja.

National team

On September 2, 2010 Cohen was appointed to the senior national team of Israel for the first time . He made his debut that day (over 90 minutes) in the European Championship qualifier against the Maltese national team , which ended with a 3-1 win for Israel; since then he has been regularly appointed to the Israeli selection.

successes

Style of play

Because of his aggressive duel and his outward appearance, he is also called Gattuso of Israel , based on the Italian footballer Gennaro Gattuso . In fact, Cohen calls Gattuso his idol and has had a hairstyle and beard cut similar to the Italian.

Others

With 109 Bundesliga appearances (9 goals), Cohen is the most frequently used player from Israel. (Status: end of season 2018/19)

His start in Germany was difficult due to a lack of knowledge of German. As a devout Jew, he was able to eat almost exclusively vegetarian in the first few months, as it was difficult for him to find kosher meat. He later found a source of supply in Frankfurt am Main .

As fans of Cohen to its support for the first leg against the April 26, 2015 1. FC Union Berlin in the stadium flag of his native Israel showed in charge ordered police leader for security to the curling of the flag. Because of the large Palestinian community in Berlin, no political statement in the stadium is desired. When Cohen asked whether flags of other countries were also banned, he was replied that this only concerned the Israeli flag. The Berlin police chief later apologized for the incident. Apart from this incident in Berlin, Cohen says he has encountered neither anti-Semitism nor hatred .

Since he is actually not allowed to work on the Sabbath , but this crosses with the Bundesliga match days, he does not use electronic devices to compensate. He describes İlkay Gündoğan and Mehmet Ekici as his two best friends in Nuremberg .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthäus congratulates Cohen , kicker.de
  2. ↑ 2: 0 - Club brings HSV to its knees ( Memento from February 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Official confirmation of the contract extension by Nuremberg
  4. ↑ At your own request: Cohen is loaned out
  5. ↑ Press release ( memento of October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the association's homepage
  6. ↑ message to Kicker .com
  7. ↑ The captain disembarks, donaukurier.de, accessed on June 20, 2019
  8. ↑ Back to the roots , donaukurier.de, accessed on June 21, 2019
  9. ↑ Israel-Malta 3: 1 ( Memento of September 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (The Israel Football Association)
  10. ↑ He plays like Gattuso - Israel celebrates club star Cohen . The picture.
  11. ↑ A little Matthew, a little Gattuso . World online ; Retrieved February 18, 2011.
  12. ↑ Police apologize for removing Israel flag . Time online , April 27, 2015
  13. ↑ Is one treated differently as a Jewish footballer in Germany, Almog Cohen? | VICE Sports . In: VICE Sports . ( vice.com [accessed December 16, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Almog
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Beer Sheva