The comeback is complete: Eran Zehavi signed for Maccabi Tel Aviv for two years
As first reported in Walla!
Sports: The long-awaited return has finally become official.
The 34-year-old striker returns to the yellow uniform after four seasons at Guangzhou R&F and another two years at PSV Eindhoven, and will try to return the championship to Kiryat Shalom
Yaniv Tuchman
26/06/2022
Sunday, 26 June 2022, 16:10
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Eran Zehavi, PSV Eindhoven striker, presents his shirt to Maccabi Tel Aviv fans (Sport1)
Two weeks after the official announcement of the return of Vladan Ivic, and after months of courtship, the dream of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans came true.
As first reported in Walla!
Sport, after four wonderful years at Guangzhou R&F and two more seasons at PSV Eindhoven, Eran Zehavi decided to return to the yellow uniform and signed for a second term in the yellow ranks on a two-year contract.
Zehavi, who will celebrate 35 in about a month, will try to bring the team back to the championship fight in the media, won three championships, and chose them over the offer from the Brazilian Botafogo.
Zehavi, who will earn a million euros net per season as part of the agreement, told the club's official website: "I am excited to join Maccabi Tel Aviv again and would like to thank Mitch Goldhaar, Jack Angelidis and Barak Yitzhaki for making it happen. I also want to thank Maccabi fans, I could not disappoint him, and the heart did not let me choose anything else. I have the opportunity to repay you for the love along the way. Throughout my career I have always set myself not simple challenges, challenges that match those of the club - striving for excellence and group and individual achievements. "Everything to help my teammates and everyone involved in the club achieve the goals and success we all wish for!"
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Zehavi (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)
Owner Mitch Goldhaar said: "I am happy to have Eran back at Maccabi. His achievements speak for themselves. Eran's competitive instinct is in line with the club's hunger to succeed. ".
The director of the football department, Barak Yitzhaki, added: "During the time Eran played for Maccabi, he not only achieved professional achievements, but also set a personal example of approach and conduct physically and mentally in training and games. We are happy that Eran returns to Maccabi and believe that together we can achieve our goals this season. ".
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Zehavi was acquired by R&F from Maccabi Tel Aviv in the summer of 2016 for 7.2 million euros and immediately repaid banknotes.
In his first half of the season in China he scored 11 goals in 15 league games and the following season, his first full season in the domestic league, found the net 27 times.
In the 2019 season Zahavi reached his peak with 29 conquests, an all-time record for goals in one season in the Chinese league.
The veteran striker finished as the king of league goals in 2017 and 2019 and although he failed to march his team to a title fight, he was selected in these two seasons for the team in the Chinese league this season.
In total, Zahavi scored 91 goals in 106 appearances in the Chinese league, while in all competitions his number in R&F stands at 103 goals in 117 appearances.
In two seasons at PSV Eindhoven, Zehavi has scored 36 goals and netted 16 more in 78 official appearances.
He helped the team win the Dutch Cup after beating Ajax in the final, but saw the team from Amsterdam win the championship twice and settle for runners-up.
In the European arena, last year PSV and Zahavi were relegated by Olympiacos in the last 32 rounds of the Europa League and this season they lost to Leicester in the quarter-finals of the Conference League.
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Eran Zehavi (Photo: GettyImages, ANP)
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Zehavi graduated from Hapoel Tel Aviv in 2006 and was loaned to Hapoel Ramat Hasharon for one season between 2007/8.
In 2011 he moved to Palermo from Hapoel Tel Aviv and after a year and a half he returned to Israel to Maccabi Tel Aviv.
With the Yellows, Zahavi has won three championships in a row (2015-2012), the Cup and the Toto Cup, finishing three times as the king of league goals.
He also won a double with Hapoel Tel Aviv in 2009/10 and won another cup with it in 2010/11, when he also finished as the king of the league.
Zehavi holds the record for goals in one season in the senior league in Israel with 35 such in the 2015/16 season and also the record for goals in one season in the Chinese league with 29 in the 2019 season.
Zahavi has 70 appearances for the team and 33 goals, which places him at the top of the conquerors' table in the history of the team.
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