Schmuel Rosenthal
| Schmuel Rosenthal | ||
 Schmuel Rosenthal (1968)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | April 22, 1947 | |
| place of birth | Petach Tikwa , Israel | |
| size | 177 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1965-1972 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 201 (8) |
| 1972-1973 | Borussia Monchengladbach | 13 (1) |
| 1973-1976 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 89 (3) |
| 1976-1988 | Beitar Tel Aviv | |
| 1978 | Oakland Stompers | 18 (0) |
| 1979 | Hapoel Lod | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1965-1973 | Israel | 30 (1) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Schmuel Rosenthal ( Hebrew שמואל רוזנטל, also known as Sam Rosenthal , born April 22, 1947 in Petach Tikwa ) is a former Israeli national soccer player. With Israel he took part in the soccer tournament of the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. At Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1972 he was the first player in his country to play professionally in Europe.
societies
Rosenthal began his playing career in 1965 with the Israeli first division club Hapoel Petach Tikwa . After his first season, he and Mordechai Spiegler were named the second footballer of the year in Israel .
Due to the friendship between Gladbach's manager Helmut Grashoff and Israel's national coach Emanuel Schaffer , he was signed by Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1972 and thus became the first Israeli footballer to receive a professional contract in Europe. The defender scored in the first half of the 1972/73 season in 13 league games a goal for the "foal", although they were at that season only fifth in the German championship, but the DFB Cup won and also the final of the UEFA Cup reached .
On September 16, 1972, the first match day of the 1972/73 season, Rosenthal made his debut in the 4-3 home win of Mönchengladbach against MSV Duisburg in the Bundesliga. He was not used in the DFB Cup, but he was in the UEFA Cup against FC Aberdeen and the Copenhagen suburb Hvidovre IF in the first two rounds of the game. At Borussia he usually played Libero , a role that, according to club history, he interpreted "often too carelessly".
After a season with Mönchengladbach, he returned to Hapoel. In the 1975/76 season he was part of the Hapoel team, which was relegated from the first division for the first time. Rosenthal then signed on to Beitar Tel Aviv FC . In 1978 he played in the United States with the Oakland Stompers in the then sensational North American Soccer League . But this was the only season in which the team from California participated in the NASL. Rosenthal therefore returned to Beitar in 1979. After only one season he moved on to the lower class club Hapoel Lod FC where he ended his career in 1983.
National team
Between 1965 and 1973 Rosenthal also played 43 times for the Israeli national soccer team and scored 2 goals for them - if strictly interpreted without, for example, Olympic qualifications, the number of games is reduced to 30 with one goal. In 1968 he took part with the national team at the Summer Olympics in Mexico and made it to the quarter-finals, where Israel was eliminated after a draw after extra time due to a draw against Bulgaria . A penalty shoot-out to make the final decision on the game was not planned at the time.
In the so far only participation of Israel in a soccer world championship, he played in 1970 at the side of the captain and soccer national hero of Israel Mordechai Spiegler and took part in all three games of the team. Israel was eliminated after the preliminary round, but with a draw against Sweden and the eventual runner-up Italy, two respectable successes were achieved.
Condemnation
In 1997, Rosenthal was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Israel for being a member of a cocaine smuggling gang .
literature
- Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup . Agon-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4
- Holger Jenrich: The Borussia Mönchengladbach Lexicon . Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-585-3
Web links
- Schmuel Rosenthal in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Schmuel Rosenthal in the database of weltfussball.de
- Schmuel Rosenthal in the database of fussballdaten.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The bus driver remains unarmed . In: Die Welt , August 18, 2007
- ^ Israel National Team - Appearances and Goalscoring . rsssf.com
- ↑ Karsten Kellermann: Drug allegations against Marcelo Pletsch: A story that already existed. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rosenthal, Shmuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosenthal, Shmuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Petach Tikva |