Mordechai "Motaleh" Shpigler ( he, מרדכי "מוטל'ה" שפיגלר; born 19 August 1944) is a retired

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, and manager. Shpigler is placed second in Israel's all time goalscoring list, with 32 goals in 83 caps.

Early life

Mordechai Shpigler was born in

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, Soviet Russia, and is

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, when he was a boy.

Playing career

Club career

As a

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, he played for

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along with Paris Saint Germain in France and alongside

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for New York Cosmos of the

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in the 1970s. He was chosen as the Israeli Player of the Year a record four times, in 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, and in 1970–71.

International career

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Shpigler made his international debut for

on 2 January 1964 against

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. He took part in the Israeli win in the

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, and scored 2 goals at the tournament, which made him a joint top scorer of the tournament. His major achievement was helping Israel qualify for the

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in Mexico. He scored Israel's lone goal in World Cup history in a 1–1 draw against

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. His 32 goals for the national team (according to

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counts only 24 of them) was the Israeli record up until 2021. Shpigler scored 24 goals in 62 'official' internationals for the Israeli national side, he also played in 21 other 'unofficial' matches (mostly Olympic Games qualifiers) scoring eight more goals. Shpigler captained the Israeli Olympic team at

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which reached the quarter-finals, losing to

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by a draw after the match ended 1–1.

Post-playing career

Spiegler was nominated as the best Israeli player of the prior 50 years by the Israel Football Association in the UEFA Jubilee Awards in November 2003. Shpigler is a member of the Education and Publicity Committee of the

. In 2007, he won a lifetime contributions special award for the

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national team in the

, determined by '' Yedioth Ahronoth'' and the Israeli football player association.

Career statistics

Club

International

International goals

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

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Maccabi Netanya * Israeli Premier League: 1970–71, 1977–78 *

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: 1977–78 * Israeli Supercup: 1971, 1978 Israel *

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: 1964 *

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Individual * Israeli Premier League top goalscorer: 1965–66, 1967–68, 1968–69 * Israeli Player of the Year: 1965–66, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71 * Member of the Israeli Football Hall of Fame

Manager

Beitar Tel Aviv * Second Division: 1980–81 Maccabi Netanya * Israeli Premier League: 1982–83 * Israeli Supercup:

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* League Cup:

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