And the Oscar goes to ...: The actors who left for Europe early

Sassi and Dahan, Guy Assulin, Yossi Benyon and more.

While Oscar Gluch is debating whether to go to Europe right now, Ron Amikam recreates some early ascents and recalls the bottom line of their careers

Ron Amikam

09/07/2022

Saturday, July 09, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

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Oscar Gluch's hair in the final of the European Youth Championship against England (Sport1)

The reader Oscar Gluch is invited to look for a seat, because the next section is read when the ground is stable.

Did you sit?

lets start.

A few weeks ago, Guy Assouline signed with Onpomation, a team that reached the relegation from Serie D at the end of last season, ie the first amateur league in Italy.

He moved to it after parting ways with Karma, another team from this league.

He is already 31 years old, this is the 13th stop - if we have not mistaken the count - in his deteriorating career.

On average he has 46 minutes per game, and the average goes down as the football to which he belongs goes down in rank.

On 28 October 2009, when Assouline was 18, Pep Guardiola decided to put him in the squad for Barcelona's Cup match against Leonez.

Beside him on offense opened Bojan Karcic and Pedro;

In the link came Saido Keita and Yaya Toure;

Sergio Busquets opened as a brake.

In the 56th minute, Asulin replaced Arik Avidel.

It was Assouline's first and last game for Barcelona's first team.

In the reserve he also played alongside Jonathan Soriano.

When they parted ways, Assouline went to the Manchester City reserve, Soriano became Red Bull Salzburg's goal monster.

Assouline has since switched teams like socks: he played for Brighton even before Hemed and Kiel made his way there, played for Racing Santander, long after Benyon was not there, came to Almaty in Kazakhstan and the Romanian border to play for Yaash, and he concludes his career so far with 15 goals and eight assists , And even six games at Hapoel Tel Aviv, with Eli Gutman, mainly as a replacement for Ramzi Spori.

there were days.

Guy Assouline in Barcelona uniform (Photo: GettyImages, Jasper Juinen)

Assouline, it is worth saying, started his career as a 12-year-old boy from Nahariya who came to the tests in Barcelona, ​​and made an amazing impression.

He once had a website where there were videos from boys' games at Barça, where he did things that only Messi could do.

Dror Kashtan's Israeli team even rushed to include him in a friendly match against Chile, just so that he would not choose to play for the Spanish team.

He was then less than 17 years old.

Like Assouline - but not really like him - there were several actors here, who hurried out of Israel.

Some succeeded in the end, some less so, and some disappeared as they came.

Eli Zizov, for example, was born in the same yearbook of Assouline, made a similar path, started his way at the football school of Maccabi Tel Aviv, toyed with the idea of ​​joining Barcelona, ​​maybe Chelsea, at the end he started his way at Levski Sofia. Blavsky was already at the age of 16, alongside Dimitar Talkisky. Shayonir was fired until Hapoel Acre paid NIS 50,000 to join it.

In contrast, Nir Bitton signed at the age of 21 at Celtic and played there until this summer for 9 full seasons.

He has 18 titles: 8 championships, 3 trophies, 4 league trophies, 3 Super Cup trophies.

He is the second Israeli by nature with the largest number of degrees in history.

Only Dror Kashtan has more.

An amazing success story.

Gives performances.

Abda (Photo: Reuters)

Yossi Benyon is also a European success story.

He has played for Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea - three of the six biggest clubs in the Premier League.

When he left Ajax at the age of 16 to join its academy, after leading (in 1996) the boys' team to third place in the European Championship, he returned after six months because he had difficulty adjusting.

And went out again only when he was mature, at the age of 22, and even then to Racing Santander, a mediocre team minus in the Spanish league and from there he had only where to climb.

His second chapter is considered the greatest success of an Israeli actor abroad.

A year after the European Junior Championships, Benyon led the youth team to a historic participation in the European Under-18 Championships, held in Iceland.

From this championship, Borussia Dortmund from Maccabi Netanya defeated Amos Sassi and Shlomi Dahan.

The two returned to Maccabi Haifa after two years, Sassi played 6 games, and Dahan only one.

Sassi returned to Dortmund, played in the 65-game team uniform, returned to Netanya, moved to Ramat Hasharon and from there to Maccabi Los Angeles.

Dahan did not even try abroad anymore, played very quickly in the lower leagues and ended his career at Maccabi Hasharon Netanya.

The most successful career abroad. Benyon (Photo: GettyImages)

Elevator of the type Gluch - still sitting?

- was Roni Calderon, who is said to be the greatest talent he has ever trodden on the football fields in the country.

Really flashy summary: At the age of 17 he brought a championship to Hapoel Tel Aviv, was after a six-month suspension for playing fake, before the closure stuck him for another six months, he has 53 games in the Hapoel Tel Aviv uniform, 3 goals, 15 assists, 3 reds.

At 25 he was relegated to the Second Division, at 27, already sitting in jail.

At the age of 18, in the middle of the World Cup in Mexico where the Israeli team played (without him), he went out to join Johan Cruyff's Ajax.

Everything was already closed, the legendary Rhinos Michals wanted him, but in Israel they did not release him.

Another attempt to play at Feyenoord failed, one last attempt to play at FC Paris was successful, but that's about it.

Ben Shehar's career, some say, is a bit controversial.

In the end, Ben Shehar played abroad, and how he played - 11 teams according to the last count.

Even before he turned 17, Chelsea bought him from Hapoel Tel Aviv for half a million euros.

That summer, he led Israel's youth team to the European Championships and was a partner in Crimea's relegation of Crimea Benzema.

Even before 17 and a half, Jose Mourinho put him in for 9 minutes instead of Arian Ruben, in the 0: 4 victory game over Wigan.

On the field were alongside him Claude McLellan, Michael Ballack, Frank Lampard, Michael Asien, and Didia Drogba.

At the end of the season Mourinho gave him a few more minutes against Manchester United and Everton.

Mourinho's replacement, Abraham Grant, no longer let him play and he began to wander.

Shahar eventually has a goal in La Liga, 5 in the second German league, 12 in the Dutch league and even a goal in the Champions League, Lyon.

In the end, he is still an active player (almost 33 more), with almost 150 goals in all competitions.

More on Walla!

Most Wonderful, Most Disturbed: The Story of Roni Calderon

To the full article

Roni Calderon - Rare Documentation

There are of course Manor Solomon and Liel Abda, clear examples of leaving at a young age and dizzying success.

Solomon signed at the age of 19 and a half in Shakhtar Donetsk, scored in the Champions League twice against Real Madrid and once against Manchester City, and immediately signed in the big volume at Fulham.

If he hurries, he might replace Boris Johnson.

Abda signed at the same age at Celtic, last summer, closing out his first season in the Scottish Champions League uniform with a championship, League Cup, 15 goals and 11 assists.

An exception for the rookie season.

There is also Ilai Almkeys, who grew up in Betar Nahariya, moved to Maccabi Haifa and from there to the academy in Zinsheim, Germany. After receiving a Bundesliga minute in Hoffenheim's win over Hertha Berlin, he was loaned to Dutch brother Dan, played a number of games, was injured and finished the season. Thai

Abed

, on the other hand, who has accumulated many shares in the European Youth Championship, alongside Gluch, moved last summer from Hapoel Tel Aviv to the PSV Eindhoven youth team.

He played 12 games this season, scored three goals, and it's too early to assess where it will develop.

Where will it go?

Go after the goal against England (Photo: Reuters)

In any case, the examples are varied.

Some were revealed to the Israeli public late, some came out of the stars, and some succeeded under the radar.

Oscar, you may get up.

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