Yogev Ohayon

Yogev Ohayon
Player information
birthday	April 24, 1987
place of birth	Safed, Israel
size	189 cm
position	Point guard
Club information
society	Maccabi Tel Aviv
league	Ligat ha'Al
Jersey number	12
Clubs as active
2004–2008 Hapoel Galil Elyon 2008–2009 Ironi Naharija 2009–2011 Hapoel Jerusalem Since 2011 Maccabi Tel Aviv 0
National team
Since 02010	Israel

Yogev Ohayon ( Hebrew יוגב אוחיון; Born April 24, 1987 in Safed ) is an Israeli basketball player . The national player has been playing for the record champions Maccabi Tel Aviv since 2011, with whom he also won the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 in connection with the national double as a Triple Crown .

Career

Ohayon began his career as a teenager in 2004 with Hapoel Galil Elyon near his hometown on the edge of the Golan Heights . There he played together with Lior Eliyahu and was used by coach Oded Kattash in the first championship games of the top division Ligat ha'Al . In 2008 Galil Elyon merged with Hapoel Gilboa and moved to a larger hall in Gan Ner . While coach Kattash returned to the fusion club after a year with record champions Maccabi Tel Aviv in northern Israel, Ohayon, who averaged the most ball wins per game of all top division players in the 2007/08 season, left the team and moved to the coast Ironi from Nahariya . Ironi, who was fourth in the preseason, reached only a seventh place at the end of the main round and was eliminated in three games in the eight-team play-offs against Hapoel from Jerusalem . The opposing team would also be Ohayon's new club the following season.

With Hapoel Jerusalem Ohayon also played internationally in the Eurocup 2009/10 , where they were eliminated in the quarter-finals against the later German finalists ALBA Berlin . In the national championship, in which they had defeated Master Maccabi Tel Aviv in the final of the League Cup at the beginning of the season , they reached second place after the regular season, but failed in the Final Four semi-finals to Ohayon's former team Gilboa Galil, which then Maccabi in the final took off the championship title. Then Hapoel Jerusalem signed Gilboa's master coach Kattash for the following season, while the previous coach Guy Goodes returned to Maccabi Tel Aviv as an assistant. In the 2010/11 season they reached third place after they failed again in the Final Four to Gilboa Galil. In the Eurocup 2010/11 , Hapoel Jerusalem was eliminated after the group stage. After the former youth and junior national player Ohayon had successfully qualified for the 2011 European Championship finals with the Israeli men's national team , Ohayon was represented there for the first time in a final squad. At the final tournament itself, after a bitter opening defeat against Germany and three defeats in the first three games , Israel was not enough to qualify for the second round.

For the 2011/12 season, Ohayon finally moved to record champions Maccabi in Tel Aviv , where Ohayon's former teammate Eliyahu had been playing with interruptions since 2006. With Maccabi, Ohayon successfully defended their national double after only two defeats this season in national competitions and won the ABA League 2011/12 as a visiting team . In the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 , the previous finalist failed this time in the quarter-final play-offs in just five games against defending champion Panathinaikos Athens . Before the beginning of the following season, Ohayon wanted to move to the Russian club Lokomotive Kuban Krasnodar , but Maccabi with coach David Blatt , who was still the national coach of the Russian team at the time, insisted that the existing contract be adhered to and a new three-year agreement was finally reached . In the ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 Maccabi failed in the quarter-final play-offs in three games against Real Madrid . After successfully defending the title in the national cup competition, they surprisingly lost the championship final against Maccabi Haifa . The 2013 European Championship finals also ended sobering for Ohayon with the Israeli national team when they again lost to Germany in the last group game and were eliminated after the preliminary round after only one win in five games. In the 2013/14 season they defended the title in the national cup competition one more time and this time reached the Final Four tournament in the ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 , in which they surprisingly won PBK CSKA Moscow with one point difference and in the Real Madrid final after extra time could defeat. At the end of the season, they won the national championship title back against defending champion Maccabi Haifa in the final and won a triple crown .

Web links

Commons : Yogev Ohayon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• OHAYON, Yogev - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Yogev OHAYON (ISR) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Allon Sinai: Maccabi Tel Aviv, Yogev Ohayon reach deal. The Jerusalem Post , September 23, 2012, accessed May 24, 2014 . 
2. ^ Igor Petrinović: Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv is the new king of Europe! ULEB , May 18, 2014, accessed on May 20, 2014 (English, match report).