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Yossi Benayoun
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Israeli association football player (born 1980)
Key facts
- 1995
- Israel U16
- 2012
- → West Ham United (loan)
- 2019
- Beitar Jerusalem
- Full name
- Yossi Shai Benayoun
- Date of birth
- ( 1980-05-05 ) 5 May 1980 (age 46)
- Place of birth
- Dimona , Israel
- Height
- 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
- Position
- Midfielder
- 1989 1992
- Hapoel Dimona
- 1992 1995
- Hapoel Be'er Sheva
- 1995 1996
- Ajax
- 1996 1997
- Hapoel Be'er Sheva
- Years
- Team
- 1997 1998
- Hapoel Be'er Sheva
- 1998 2002
- Maccabi Haifa
- 2002 2005
- Racing Santander
- 2005 2007
- West Ham United
- 2007 2010
- Liverpool
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Right Wing
- Nationality
- Israel
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Place of birth
- Dimona
- Occupation
- sporting director
- Languages spoken
- Modern Hebrew
- Native language
- Hebrew
- Religion
- Judaism
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Beitar Jerusalem F.C.
- Position played
- midfielder
- League
- Israeli Premier League
- Country for sport
- Israel
- Mass
- 70
- Image
- Yossibenayounch.jpg
- Height
- 178
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- Commons category
- Yossi Benayoun
- date of birth
- 1980-05-05
- birth name
- יוסי שי בניון
- name in native language
- יוסי בניון
- start of work period
- 1997-00-00
- social media followers
- 341358
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Encyclopedic overview
Yossi Shai Benayoun (Hebrew: יוסי שי בניון; born 5 May 1980) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his career in Israel and England and captained the Israel national team. Born in Dimona, he is sometimes nicknamed "The Diamond from Dimona" in Israel. As of 2023, he has been the sporting director of the Israel national team.
Benayoun played for Hapoel Be'er Sheva and Maccabi Haifa before moving to Racing de Santander in Spain. Three years later he moved to the Premier League with West Ham United, and later Liverpool. In 2010, he signed for Chelsea, where he was used rarely, being loaned to Arsenal and back to West Ham, but nonetheless won the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League. After that, he was released by the club and spent a season in the Football League Championship with Queens Park Rangers before returning to Maccabi Haifa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yossi Benayoun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.