Archives: Players
Oscar Gloukh
Gloukh (18) a product of Maccabi’s Youth Academy, made his senior debut at the age of 17 in a Toto Cup match against Hapoel Jerusalem in the 2020/21 season. Gloukh then scored on his senior league debut during a 1-1 draw against Maccabi Haifa at Bloomfield in April 2022.
Oscar continued to shine with the first team in 21/22 at the end of which he led Israel’s youth national side to the UEFA European Under-19 Championship finals where Israel finished in the runners up spot after losing to England in the final.
In the 2022/23 season Oscar continued to play a key role at Maccabi’s senior side, scored this 6 goals and assisted in 8 others during the 23 appearances in all competitions. he also earned a call up to the Israel national for which he made 2 international appearances and scored 1 goals.
Overall Oscar made a total of 35 appearances in Maccabi’s Yellow and Blue colours scoring 10 goals.
Orel Baye
Bar Lin
Stipe Perica
Born in Zadar, Perica began his playing career at the Youth Academy of his boyhood club where he made his senior debut in September 2012 and scored during that season in the Croatian league 8 goals in 20 appearances.
After becoming the youngest player to represent and score for his country during the FIFA U-20 World Cup which took place in Turkey, Perica was bought in the summer of 2013 by Chelsea who loaned him out to NAC Breda. The Croatian striker scored 9 goals in 35 appearances for the Dutch side where he played until January 2015 before joining Udinese on loan. Having scored 3 goals in 20 appearances for Udinese, Perica made his transfer to the Italian side permanent and added a further 7 goals in 49 appearances until 2018.
The following season Perica spent on loan with Frosinone before switching to Turkey for another loan spell at Kasimpasa and Belgian outfit Mouscron for which he scored 7 goals in 15 appearances during the 2019/20 season. Last season, Perica scored a goal in 16 appearances for Watford in the Championship and helped the Hornets return to the Premier League.
Perica made 16 international appearances for Croatia’s young national teams scoring 9 goals between 2013-2016.
Eden Shamir
The midfielder, 185cm, began his playing career at Hapoel Haifa’s youth academy before switching to Kiryat Shmona in 2012. Shamir made his senior debut for Kiryat Shmona at a league match against Hapoel Ra’anana in November 2013 and at the end of that season won the State Cup.
This season Shamir played once for Liege in the league against Genk as well as one pre-season friendly match against Mechelen. Last season Shamir made 23 appearances for Liege in all competitions including featuring for the Belgian club in the Europa League group stages.
Roei Amedi
Yakir Zilberman
Osama Khalaila
Khalaila, played for Bnei Sachnin’s U-19’s team, made his senior debut in May 2017 against Beitar Jerusalem. Since then he scored 25 goals in 107 appearances for Sachnin in all competitions. Khalaila scored 2 goals in 11 appearances for Israel’s Youth team before adding 8 more appearances for Israel’s U-21’s. Earlier this month (June 2021), Khalaila made his full international debut for Israel in a friendly against Portugal.
Idan Nachmias
The central defender who made his first footballing footsteps at Kiryat Shmona’s Youth Department has been playing with in the first team for the past four years and scored 6 goals in 140 appearances in all competitions.
Nachmias made his senior international debut for Israel against Slovakia in October 2020 and scored 1 goal in 10 appearances for the U21’s as well as 16 international appearances for the young national teams.







