Avraham Nudelman (Hebrew: אברהם נודלמן) was an Israeli footballer who played for Hapoel Tel Aviv and Mandatory Palestine national football team during the British Mandate era.[1]

Avraham Nudelman
Personal information
Full name Avraham "Nucha" Nudelman
Date of birth (1910-10-05)5 October 1910
Place of birth Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
Date of death 1 February 1985(1985-02-01) (aged 74)
Place of death Israel
Position(s) Left wing
Youth career
1924–1925 Nordia Tel Aviv
1925 HaGibor Tel Aviv
1925–1927 Allenby Tel Aviv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1927–1938 Hapoel Tel Aviv
International career
1934–1938 Eretz Israel 3 (1)
Managerial career
Hapoel Kiryat Shalom
Maccabi Bat Yam
Hapoel Ramat Gan
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

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Nudelman was born in Menashiya neighborhood of Jaffa in 1910, and started playing football with local youth club Allenby Tel Aviv, which was initially affiliated with Maccabi Tel Aviv, but its members decided to withdraw from Maccabi, due to the professional attitude towards sports and merged in 1927 with Hapoel Tel Aviv.[2] With Hapoel, Nudelman stayed until 1938, when he retired from football in favor of his day job as a worker in Tel Aviv Harbor. Nudelman won 3 championships and 4 cups, scoring goals in the 1928 and 1938 cup finals. Nudelman was also part of the Mandatory Palestine national football team, and played three matches for the team, two against Egypt in 1934, scoring the consolation goal for Mandatory Palestine in a 1–7 defeat,[3] and one against Greece in 1938, after which he retired from the national team.

Personal life

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During World War II, Nudelman was drafted to the British Army, where he served as a driver. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Nudelman was given a work as a chauffeur in the Ministry of Defense and played for the ministry's football team.[4]

Honours

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References

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  1. ^ National Team Player Details - Nudelman Avraham Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine IFA (in Hebrew)
  2. ^ 85 Years to Hapoel Allenby Tel Aviv Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Asher Goldberg, 6 June 2012, IFA (in Hebrew)
  3. ^ The Match in Which The National Team's Legacy of Failures Began Arie Livnat, 13 March 2012, Haaretz (in Hebrew)
  4. ^ A Nice Competition[permanent dead link] Al HaMishmar, 25 January 1955, Historical Jewish Press (in Hebrew)