Emmanuel Scheffer

Emmanuel Scheffer
Personal information
Full name Emmanuel Scheffer
Date of birth (1924-02-01)1 February 1924
Place of birth Berlin, Weimar Republic
Date of death 28 December 2012(2012-12-28) (aged 88)
Place of death Ramat Hasharon, Israel
Position(s) Defender[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1947–1950 Pionier Wrocław
1950–1951 Hapoel Haifa
1951–1954 Hapoel Kfar Saba[3] (9)
International career
Israel B[2] 1 (0)
Managerial career
1957–1960 Hapoel Kfar Saba
1960–1961 Hapoel Marmorek Rehovot
1961–1962 Hapoel Ra'anana
1962–1963 Bnei Yehuda
1963–1967 Israel U-19
1967 Maccabi Netanya
1968–1970 Israel
1978–1979 Israel
1979–1980 Beitar Jerusalem
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Emmanuel Scheffer (Hebrew: עמנואל שפר‎; 1 February 1924 – 28 December 2012) was an Israeli football player and coach who was born in Germany.[4]

He was twice the manager of the Israel national football team (1968–70, 1978–79), and led the team at the 1968 Summer Olympics,[5] and led the team to their only appearance in the World Cup, in 1970.[4][6]

Scheffer died on 28 December 2012.[7] He was 88.

  1. ^ "Emmanuel Scheffer". footballdatabase.eu (in French). Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  2. ^ "The Israel Football Association". Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  3. ^ "הפועל כפר סבא | עונת 1953-1954 | דריבליסט". Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  4. ^ a b Bekerman, Eitan (12 November 2008). "The Last Word / Long live the foreign coach". Haaretz. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  5. ^ "Tournaments: Men's Olympic Football Tournament: Mexico City 1968: Israel". FIFA. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  6. ^ "1970 FIFA World Cup Mexico: Israel". FIFA. Archived from the original on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  7. ^ "Former Israel national team manager Emmanuel Scheffer has died" (in Hebrew). ONE. 28 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.