Yossi Mizrahi
Yossi Mizrahi (Hebrew: יוסי מזרחי, born 1953) is a retired Israeli goalkeeper and is a current manager.
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Yosef Mizrahi | ||
| Date of birth | April 4, 1953[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Jerusalem, Israel | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Beitar Jerusalem | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Hapoel Jerusalem[1] | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1974–1988 | Beitar Jerusalem[1] | 371 | (0) |
| 1988–1989 | Hapoel Lod[1] | ||
| 1989–1990 | Shimshon Tel Aviv[1] | ||
| International career | |||
| 1979–1981[2] | Israel | 9 | (0[2]) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1994 | Beitar Jerusalem (assistant manager) | ||
| 1994–1995 | Beitar Jerusalem | ||
| 1995–1999 | Hapoel Jerusalem | ||
| 1999–2001 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | ||
| 2002 | Beitar Jerusalem | ||
| 2002–2004 | Israel (assistant manager) | ||
| 2004 | F.C. Ashdod | ||
| 2006–2007 | Beitar Jerusalem | ||
| 2007 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | ||
| 2007–2008 | Apollon Limassol | ||
| 2008–2010 | F.C. Ashdod | ||
| 2010–2011 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | ||
| 2011–2013 | F.C. Ashdod | ||
| 2013–2015 | Maccabi Netanya | ||
| 2016 | Bnei Yehuda | ||
| 2016 | Hapoel Jerusalem | ||
| 2016–2018 | F.C. Ashdod (sports director) | ||
| 2017 | F.C. Ashdod (caretaker manager) | ||
| 2018 | F.C. Ashdod | ||
| 2019 | Hapoel Katamon | ||
| 2021–2022 | Beitar Jerusalem | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Early life
Yosef (Yossi) Mizrahi was born in West Jerusalem on April 4, 1953. He grew up in Katamon and studied at Ma'aleh state religious school. As a teenager, he played on the youth team of Hapoel Jerusalem.
Career
In 1974–1987, Mizrahi was the goalkeeper for Beitar Jerusalem. Two years after he joined the team, it won the State Cup for the first time.[3] In 1994, Mizrahi was assistant coach under Amatzia Levkovic. In 1994, Levkovic was fired four games into the season and Mizrahi was appointed head coach. He later coached Hapoel Jerusalem, Maccabi Petah Tikva, F.C. Ashdod, Beitar Jerusalem FC, Apollon Limassol (Cyprus) and worked with Avram Grant as assistant coach in Israel's 2004 European Championship qualifying campaign.[4]
Mizrahi is described as an "impeccable tactician, capable of turning wretched teams around and loved by his players."[3]
Despite him winning the Championship with Beitar Jerusalem in the end of the season of 2006/07, Mizrahi was fired from the Club and signed with Apollon Limassol in Cyprus.
On April 21, 2008, Mizrahi left Apollon Limassol and returned to manage F.C. Ashdod.[5] He resigned from F.C. Ashdod on May 20, 2010.
On June 10, 2010, Mizrahi signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv. He resigned from the team on January 4, 2011. He subsequently signed with F.C. Ashdod on April 18, 2011.