In honor of Benny Tabak's 58th birthday and the Israel National Team's crucial match against Bosnia this coming Friday evening, it was only fitting to reminisce about the F-15's 4-goal performance for the Blue-and-White when they played Liverpool.
Tabak who played 17-years for Maccabi Tel Aviv FC, was one of the club's most prolific scorers of all-time, notching 118 goals over the course of his illustrious career.
In 1983, Tabak along with the Israel National team played a friendly against one of the most well-known football club's in the world, Liverpool from England. The match at Ramat Gan Stadium turned out to be one of the greatest performances for any player as Tabak proved to be a one man wrecking crew!
The first goal was headed in by Tabak off a beautiful cross by the Beitar Jerusalem great Ori Malmillian and his second of the match came off a deep ball by Gili Landau that Tabak slotted in right off of left post to make it 2:0 Israel.
The second half against Liverpool began just as the first half had as Tabak scored his third goal of the match! Zahi Armeli gave Tabak another deep ball as he pounced on the pass and pounded the ball into the left corner of the goal behind Liverpool 'keeper Bruce Grobbelaar.
If anyone thought that Tabak would be finished with a hat-trick, well they were just wrong as the F-15 made sure to save the best for last heading the ball into the right side of the goal for his 4th of the day giving the National Team a 4:3 victory. Tabak's 4-goal performance back in 1983 will be celebrated in the annals of history just as his hat-trick against Portugal was in 1982 during World Cup qualifying.
