Mu'nas Dabbur (sometimes Moanes Dabour or Muanes Dabur, ar, مُؤَنَّس دَبُّور, he, מואנס דאבור; born 14 May 1992) is an

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professional

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who plays as a

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for German

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club

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Early life

Dabbur was born in

Nazareth Nazareth ( ; ar, النَّاصِرَة, ''an-Nāṣira''; he, נָצְרַת, ''Nāṣəraṯ''; arc, ܢܨܪܬ, ''Naṣrath'') is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". In ...

, Israel, to an Arab-Muslim family of Palestinian descent. His brother

Anas Dabbur Anas Dabour ( ar, أَنَس دَبُّور, he, אנס דאבור; born 29 April 1991) is an Arab-Israeli professional footballer who plays a midfielder or winger for Israeli Liga Leumit club Ihud Bnei Shefa-'Amr. Early life Dabbur was born ...

is also a footballer, who currently plays as a

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for Maccabi Ahi Nazareth. Dabbur's father Kasam died in a car accident in 2009.

Club career

Dabbur started his career in the Israeli Maccabi Nazareth and Maccabi Tel Aviv youth academies.

Maccabi Tel Aviv

He made his senior debut with Israeli Premier League club Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2011. In the 2011–12 season, he participated in 26 league matches for Maccabi, scoring eight goals. In the 2012–13 Israeli Premier League season, he was part of Maccabi Tel Aviv's squad that has become champions after a ten-year drought spell, providing the team with 10 goals in 26 matches. Dabbur started the season providing two important goals on 27 August 2011 against Maccabi Haifa, goals that were described as "extremely crucial" for the rest of the season in the tight race for achieving the title. Dabbur ended the season after being injured for a one-month period during the warm up to the

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match against

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on 6 April 2013.

Grasshoppers

On 4 February 2014, Dabbur confirmed his transfer to the

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after its club

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paid a transfer fee of $425,000 to his previous Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv. On 16 February 2014, he had his first appearance at Zurich, when he came on from the bench in the second half scoring two goals and assisting once in a 5–1 win against St. Gallen. Dabbur finished his debut season at Grasshoppers with nine goals and four assists in 15 league matches. The 2014–15 season was comparatively less successful with Dabbur scoring 13 times in the league and five in the cup. He also provided 8 assists in the league, reaffirming his position as one of Grasshoppers' best and most valuable players. During the summer of 2015, several clubs were rumoured to be interested in Dabbur, including German club Werder Bremen and Italian club

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. However, the only two clubs to bid for him were the aforementioned Palermo and his previous Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv. Both bids were rejected and Dabbur signed a new, greatly improved contract with Swiss club Grasshoppers. Dabbur enjoyed a good start to the 2015–16 Swiss Super League season, scoring eight and assisting eight goals in his club's first eight games including a goal and a hat-trick of assists in Grasshoppers' opening game against

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Red Bull Salzburg

In May 2016, Dabbur signed with

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club Red Bull Salzburg for five years. During the 2017–18 season, Salzburg finished top of their Europa League group, for a record fourth time, before beating

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and

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thus making their first ever appearance in the UEFA Europa League semi-final. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals as

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played out a 2–1 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. In February 2017, Dabbur was loaned mid-season back to his previous Swiss club of

, until the end of the season.

Sevilla

On 17 January 2019, Dabbur agreed terms to join Spanish

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club Sevilla. He agreed to a four-year contract, but stayed with his previous

club Red Bull Salzburg until the end of the campaign. Dabbur made his debut with Sevilla during the

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matchweek 16, coming on as a substitute for

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in the 78th minute, in a 1–1 tie at

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1899 Hoffenheim

On 7 January 2020, it was disclosed that Dabbur had signed a contract until 2024 with German

club

for a reported fee of 12 million euros.

International career

In 2013, Dabbur was part of the Israel U-21 national team that played in the

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that was hosted in

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. Dabbur started in two out of three matches during the group stage of the tournament, against the U21 national teams of

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and

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. In May 2014, Dabbur was named by coach

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in the senior

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's 25-man squad to play two

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against

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and

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. He made his senior debut against Honduras in a 4–2 victory on 1 June 2014. He scored his first goal for the national team against

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in a 4–0 victory on 3 September 2015, in

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. Dabbur announced his retirement from Israel, on 26 July 2022.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Israel's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dabbur goal.''

Honours

Maccabi Tel Aviv * Israeli Premier League:

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Red Bull Salzburg *

: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 *

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: 2018–19 Sevilla *

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: 2019–20 Individual *

Top goalscorer: 2015–16 * Swiss Super League Top assist provider: 2015–16 * Swiss Super League Team of the Year: 2015–16 *

Top goalscorer: 2017–18, 2018–19 *

Player of the Year: 2018–19 * Austrian Bundesliga Team of the Year: 2017–18, 2018–19 *

Top assist provider: 2016–17

References

External links

*
Dabour profile
on Maccabi Tel Aviv official website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dabour, Moanes 1992 births Living people People from Nazareth Arab citizens of Israel Arab-Israeli footballers Israeli footballers Association football forwards Maccabi Ahi Nazareth F.C. players Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. players FC Red Bull Salzburg players Grasshopper Club Zürich players Sevilla FC players TSG 1899 Hoffenheim players Footballers from Nazareth Israeli Premier League players Swiss Super League players Austrian Football Bundesliga players La Liga players Bundesliga players Israel youth international footballers Israel under-21 international footballers Israel international footballers Israeli expatriate footballers Israeli people of Palestinian descent Expatriate footballers in Switzerland Expatriate footballers in Austria Expatriate footballers in Spain Expatriate footballers in Germany Israeli expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Israeli expatriate sportspeople in Austria Israeli expatriate sportspeople in Spain Israeli expatriate sportspeople in Germany Israeli Muslims