Alternative stars: the ten greatest scorers in the Toto Cup - voila! sport

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Some of them took advantage of every opportunity in the secondary enterprise, others were also excellent league strikers. The Toto Cup returns next week, and Ron Amikam mentions which players used to flourish in it the most

Alternative stars: the ten greatest scorers in the Toto Cup

Some of them took advantage of every opportunity in the secondary enterprise, others were also excellent league strikers.

The Toto Cup returns next week, and Ron Amikam mentions which players used to flourish in it the most

Ron Amikam

07/23/2022

Saturday, July 23, 2022, 1:00 p.m

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Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Maccabi Netanya 0:0 (5:4 on penalties) (Sport1)

Next Saturday, the season will resume in full force with the entry of the other 10 teams into the Toto Cup round of games.

With the exception of two seasons in history (once due to a strike and once due to Operation Solid Cliff), this is an enterprise that has been running continuously since the 1984/5 season, sometimes in a tedious format - which encompassed some of the second league teams, and sometimes also in a short-term format, as in recent years: between 3 and 6 games, which end in September at the latest.

Even though it is a title, you lift a cup, and you make money, in the Toto Cup, more probationers and youth players play than regular league players, so the identity of the greatest goal scorers in the history of the enterprise does not necessarily correspond to the identity of the greatest scorers in the league (also because some of those who scored goals in the league retired before the Toto Cup enterprise began ...).

If we mention that Ofer Talkar - a right defender - once scored six goals in one game in the Toto Cup, it will only emphasize the deviation.

And yet, whoever scores in bunches in the league, will also do so in the Toto Cup.

So why talk too much, here are the top ten.

7. Ofer Shatrit, Avi Nemani, Ofir Haim and Idan Shariki - 25 goals 21

the bomb

Ofir Haim (Photo: Maariv, Adi Avishi)

Sheetrit played between 1987 and 2010, even at the age of 40, and the number of goals in his career (217 in a professional setting) is tremendous by any standard.

He is ranked among the top 50 scorers in both the first and second leagues and his 25 goals in the Toto Cup he scored for seven teams: Ironi Ashdod, Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Petah Tikva, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Beitar Jerusalem, Bnei Yehuda and Maccabi Kfar Kana

Avi Nemani needs no introduction. Although he is considered a superstar, he played in the Toto Cup, scored 25 goals, and won two Toto Cups.

Ofir

Haim, the hero fresh out of his hat as coach of the youth team, won the Toto Cup once as a Maccabi Tel Aviv player in the 1998/9 season, And scored his goals in the factory also in the uniform of Hapoel BS and Maccabi Netanya.

Idan Shariki scored his 25 goals only in the uniform of MS Ashdod and Maccabi Netanya.

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6. Reuven Atar - 26 goals

Among his 167 goals in teams from the top league, the 26 goals in the Toto Cup occupy a respectable place, close to a sixth of his goals were scored in the Kakioni factory.

Atar did this in the uniforms of all the teams he played for, with the exception of Beitar Jerusalem: Maccabi and Hapoel Haifa, Hapoel Petah Tikva and Maccabi Netanya.

His famous goal in the Toto Cup was scored in the uniform of Maccabi Haifa, against Beitar Jerusalem at Teddy Stadium, with a spectacular scissor kick.

5. Esi Tobi - 29 goals

Underrated.

Esi Tobi (Photo: Maariv, Danny Maron)

Did you know that Esi Tobi has 245 goals in his professional career?

He didn't know either.

One of the most underrated strikers in the history of Israeli football, a player that Eyal Berkovic would say is one of the two best strikers he played with in Israel, and Berkovic has an understanding of strikers.

Tobi scored 29 goals in the Toto Cup (in the first league. He has 11 more in the second league), in the uniforms of 9 teams: Shimshon Tel Aviv, Tzafririm Holon, Hapoel KPS, Hapoel Jerusalem, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Maccabi Tel Aviv, M. S. Ashdod, Hapoel Nazareth Elite (today Nof HaGalil) and Maccabi Ahi Nazareth.

This earned him only one victory in the Toto Cup in the uniform of Maccabi Pat.

4. Hazi Shirazi - 30 goals

under the radar

Shirazi (Photo: Maged Gozni)

Another player who went a bit under the radar, with only one appearance in the national team uniform, but with countless goals - 165 by our count.

Shirazi scored his 30 Toto Cup goals in the uniforms of 3 teams, Bnei Yehuda, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa.

3. Shay Holtzman - 34 goals

Conquering with supreme grace.

Shai Holtzman (Photo: Maariv, Adi Avishai)

Holtzman is one of the greatest scorers in Israeli football of all time: he ranks fifth among the scorers of the Premier League with 169 goals, and another 71 goals in the other establishments, without having played at all in the second division, in Israel or abroad. This in itself is extremely impressive. And still his 34 goals in the Toto Cup, More than 14 percent of all his goals indicate expertise, even though he has one win in the Toto Cup and that too in the uniform of a team in which he did not really leave a mark Beitar Jerusalem.

He scored his goals in the Toto Cup in the uniforms of all 8 teams he played for: Maccabi Netanya, Maccabi Haifa, Tzafririm Holon, Hapoel BS, Beitar Jerusalem, Maccabi Petah Tikva, Ironi Rashlatz and MS Ashdod.

2. Amir Turgeman - 39 goals

the shell

Turgeman (photo: Barney Ardov)

39 goals in the uniforms of five teams only in the Toto Cup?

Amazing, certainly for a player who is ranked only 20th in the all-time greatest scorers table in the first league.

Another player who was the top scorer but left less of a mark on the team (only 3 goals), and despite that he reached a considerable amount of 238 goals in his professional career.

His 39 goals didn't win him even once in the Toto Cup, but he has two championships and a state cup.

1. Alon Mizrahi - 42 goals

Not one but two.

Mizrahi and Atar (Photo: Flash 90, Moshe Shai)

Well, did you think there would be someone else in first place?

Aeron was serious wherever he played.

His 42 goals in the Toto Cup are barely 12.5 percent of his total goals in his career (336), and in any case, he scored these 42 goals in the uniforms of 5 teams: Bnei Yehuda, Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Tel Aviv (yes yes...), Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel KPS. It is impossible that the Toto Cup did not occupy a central place in his life with 3 wins out of the 6 team titles he won. Twice in the Bnei Yehuda uniform and once in the Maccabi Haifa uniform.

So next Saturday it starts, but it is hard to believe that anything will move in the great conquerors table of The factory. The most senior active player is Shuval Gozlan who is ranked 45th with 13 goals in the Toto Cup in the first league. And if we wrote first, in just one sentence: the three biggest scorers for the factory in the second league are Ofer Degami (21), Eli Ben Amu (19) and Yossi Gordana (18).

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