Shmuel 'Chuchko' Levy played for Maccabi Jaffa and the Central Command team in the IDF Championship under coach Yosef Marimovich. His wife Rachel passed away six months ago.
"She left great sadness and pain in the family. The family misses Rachel," he says. "I was a first-year boy's player at the time," says Levy. "As a child I loved to watch Shneor and Shia Glazer and from Tel Aviv, but I connected with Maccabia" "I remember almost every goal of Baruch Cohen and Moshe Miranda," he adds. "It was an exciting celebration for the people of aliyah" "Football was inherent in their family, they saw me as a boy playing for children and for the boys," says the widower of eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. "When I was 11, I started in family games with my father, I saw all his games, he was my first role model"