Yohanan Sukenik ( he, יוחנן סוקניק) was a

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footballer, who played for Hapoel Tel Aviv and

Mandatory Palestine national football team The Mandatory Palestine national football team, also known as the ''Eretz Israel'' national football team ( he, נבחרת ארץ ישראל בכדורגל, Nivheret Eretz Yisrael Bekhadurgel, lit=Land of Israel national football team), repre ...

Biography

Sukenik was born in

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, then part of the

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and immigrated to

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...

with his family in 1923."5 Years I Haven't Seen Hapoel T.A…."
Hadshot HaSport, 10 February 1957 A keen footballer, he joined

Maccabi Tel Aviv Maccabi Tel Aviv ( he, מכבי תל אביב) is one of the largest sports clubs in Israel, and a part of the Maccabi association. Many sports clubs and teams in Tel Aviv are in association with Maccabi and compete in a variety of sports, such ...

's youth team, Nordia. In 1927 he moved to Hapoel Tel Aviv, with whom he played until retiring in 1940. With the Hapoel Tel Aviv, Sukenik won 4 championships and 5

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. Sukenik was also part of the

, playing four matches for the team, two against

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in 1934, scoring the consolation goal for Mandatory Palestine in a 1–4 defeat, and two against

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in 1938, including appearing as a substitute the first match between the teams.An Historic Correction: The Line-Up Against Greece in 1938
Asher Goldberg, 22 November 2010, IFA Sukenik retired in 1940, as he felt that playing football was damaging his feet and settled in

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, where he worked as a builder. He tried his hand in coaching Hapoel Ramat Gan, but quit the position as he considered his players weren't making the effort to train properly and quit football altogether.

Honours

* League Championships (4): ** 1933–34, 1934–35, 1937–38,

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(5): **

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhan ...

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maxi ...

, 1937, 1938, 1939

References

1909 births 1986 deaths 20th-century Israeli Jews Jewish men's footballers Mandatory Palestine men's footballers Mandatory Palestine men's international footballers Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. players Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim F.C. managers Sportspeople from Łódź Men's association football midfielders Israeli football managers Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine {{Israel-footy-bio-stub