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unusual facts about Maccabi



2000–01 Liga Leumit

3. Before the start of the season, Maccabi Acre moved to Kiryat Ata and were renamed Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata.

2002–03 ABA Goodyear League

Crvena Zvezda finished top of the table in regular season, although the club didn't play its last round match against Maccabi, since the Israeli club didn't travel to Belgrade due to the state of emergency proclaimed following the March 2003 assassination of Serbian prime minister Zoran Đinđić.

2009–10 Israeli Final Four

The contestants were Maccabi Tel Aviv, the 2008–09 Israeli League champion and the 2009–10 Israeli State Cup winner, Hapoel Jerusalem, Gilboa/Galil and Elitzur Maccabi Netanya.

Alain Masudi

On 26/06/2008 he decided to join Daniel Jammer's Maccabi Netanya after having troubles with officials from Maccabi Tel Aviv.

David Blu

Following his release from Sacramento, he received an offer from the Russian team Dynamo Saint Petersburg that just signed David Blatt, who was the coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv during the time that Blu was there.

F.C. Ashdod

The unorthodox name of the team (no association, i.e. Hapoel, Maccabi, Beitar etc.) is the result of the union of two city rivals, Hapoel Ashdod and Maccabi Ironi Ashdod.

Gonzalo Garcia

Gonzalo García García (born 1983), Spanish footballer who currently plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.

Idan Tal

The fact that he had acquired a European passport, along with his contract with Maccabi being due to expire at the end of the season, allowed him to renegotiate a return to Europe on a free transfer, where he would not count as a foreign player.

Jason Molins

In 2008, Molins was named along with Mark Bott and Darren Gerard to the Maccabi GB cricket team to represent the United Kingdom at the 2009 Maccabiah Games.

Leonard Krupnik

After leaving Maccabi Herzliya, Krupnik joined Bnei Sakhnin for the second half of the 2006–07 season and helped the club gain promotion to the Israeli Premier League.

Maccabi Brinkford Tbilisi

Maccabi Brinkford Tbilisi is the Georgian professional basketball club, that is based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Maccabi HaShikma Ramat Hen F.C.

Maccabi HaShikma Ramat Hen Football Club (Hebrew: מועדון כדורגל מכבי השקמה רמת חן) is an Israeli football club based in Ramat Gan.

Maccabi Neve Sha'anan Eldad F.C.

During his reserve duty in the IDF, Maccabi Neve Sha'anan player Eldad Regev was abducted by Hezbollah forces.

Miki Berkovich

In 1977 helped Maccabi to win its first European Championship, defeating Mobilgirgi Varese 78:77 in the final held in Pionir Hall, Belgrade and CSKA Moscow 91:79 in semifinal group game held in Virton, Belgium, an achievement that produced Tal Brody's famous sentence "We are on the map, not only in basketball".

Omri Ben Harush

Ben Harush started the season well, after giving a chance in the first team line-up due to an injury of Maccabi's original left-back, Mané.

Roberto Colautti

On 1 August 2010, Colautti scored his first goal at Maccabi Toto Cup win against Maccabi Netanya.

Then, in the group stage, Colautti secured a 3–1 victory over the French side AJ Auxerre at home, scoring Maccabi Haifa's third goal in the 58th minute, with Colautti rounding the Auxerre goalkeeper Fabien Cool, before slotting the ball home from a tight angle.

Roei Dayan

However the proposed deal to bring him to St. Mirren has fallen through because of the 400,000 price tag that Maccabi Tel Aviv placed on Dayan.

UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole

UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole (commonly known as UJA Alfortville or simply Alfortville) is a French association football club based in Alfortville, a suburb of Paris.

Vayer

Adam Vayer (born 1987), Israeli footballer currently playing for Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata


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