Shmuel Rosenthal
Shmuel Rosenthal on returning from the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico in 1968
Shmuel Rosenthal (Hebrew: שמואל רוזנטל, also known as Sam Rosenthal, born April 22, 1947 in Petah Tikva ) is a former Israeli national football team. With Israel he took the football tournament of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games and the Football World Cup 1970 in Mexico part. With Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1972 he was the first player in his country, who played professionally in Europe.
Clubs
Rosenthal began his playing career in 1965 with the Israeli first division team Hapoel Petah Tikva. After his first season, he was chosen along with Mordechai Spiegler for the second player of the year in Israel.
In 1972 he was obliged Borussia Mönchengladbach Through the friendship of Gladbach manager Helmut Grashof to Israel's national trainer Emanuel Schaffer, becoming the first Israeli footballer, who received a professional contract in Europe. The defender scored in the first half of the 1972/73 season in 13 league games a goal for the " foal ", although only fifth in the German championship were in that season, but won the DFB Cup and the final of the UEFA Cup reached.
On 16 September 1972 the first matchday of the 1972/73 season, Rosenthal made his debut in a 4-3 home victory against Mönchengladbach MSV Duisburg in the Bundesliga. In the DFB-Pokal, he did not play, whereas he was in the UEFA Cup against FC Aberdeen and the Copenhagen suburb of Hvidovre IF club in the first two rounds of the party. When Borussia he usually played Libero, a role that he, according to club history, " often too careless " interpreted.
After a season in Mönchengladbach, he returned to Hapoel. In the 1975/76 season he was part of the Hapoel team that descended for the first time from the first division. Rosenthal then hired on with Beitar Tel Aviv FC. In 1978 he played in the U.S. at the Oakland Stompers in his time sensational North American Soccer League. However, this was attended by the team from California to the NASL the only season. Rosenthal, therefore, returned in 1979 to Beitar back. But after one season he moved on to unterklassigen club Hapoel Lod FC where he ended his career in 1983.
National
Between 1965 and 1973, Rosenthal also played 43 times for the Israeli national football team and scored 2 goals for this - a strict interpretation without, for example, Olympic qualifications reduces the number of games to 30 with a gate. In 1968 he participated with the national team at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico and penetrated even into the quarter-finals, where Israel to a draw after extra output due to a loose- sealed oath eliminated against Bulgaria. A penalty shoot- final match decision was not provided at that time.
In the only previous Israeli participation at a World Cup he played in 1970 on the side of the captain and footballing National Hero's of Israel Mordechai Spiegler and participated in all three of its matches. Israel already retired after the first round of, but get a draw against Sweden and how it has been runner-up Italy two notable successes.