Yohanan Sukenik

Yohanan Sukenik (Hebrew: יוחנן סוקניק‎) was a Jewish footballer, who played for Hapoel Tel Aviv and Mandatory Palestine national football team.[1]

Yohanan Sukenik
Personal information
Full name Yohanan Sukenik
Date of birth 1909 (1909)
Place of birth Łódź, Russian Poland
Date of death 18 January 1986(1986-01-18) (aged 75–76)
Place of death Israel
Playing position(s) Half back
Youth career
1923–1927 Nordia Tel Aviv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1927–1940 Hapoel Tel Aviv
National team
1934–38 Eretz Israel 4 (1)
Teams managed
1945 Hapoel Ramat Gan
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Biography

Sukenik was born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Empire and immigrated to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1923.[2] A keen footballer, he joined Maccabi Tel Aviv's youth team, Nordia. In 1927 he moved to Hapoel Tel Aviv, with whom he played until retiring in 1940.[2] With the Hapoel Tel Aviv, Sukenik won 4 championships and 5 cups.

Sukenik was also part of the Mandatory Palestine national football team, playing four matches for the team, two against Egypt in 1934, scoring the consolation goal for Mandatory Palestine in a 1–4 defeat,[3][4] and two against Greece in 1938, including appearing as a substitute the first match between the teams.[5]

Sukenik retired in 1940, as he felt that playing football was damaging his feet and settled in Ramat Gan, 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.[2]

Honours
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References
  1. National Team Player Details – Sukenik Yohanan IFA (in Hebrew)
  2. "5 Years I Haven't Seen Hapoel T.A…." Hadshot HaSport, 10 February 1957 (in Hebrew)
  3. Photographic Memory Asher Goldberg, 30 June 2002, Haaretz (in Hebrew)
  4. 1934 – Egypt Football Team in Tel Aviv Asher Goldberg, 2 January 2012, IFA (in Hebrew)
  5. An Historic Correction: The Line-Up Against Greece in 1938 Asher Goldberg, 22 November 2010, IFA (in Hebrew)
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