Crazy_Yank
17 Nov 2003, 10:22 PM
What is the standard of the national league? Is it professional? Who are the best teams/players? Most well known Israeli player?
Kappa18
18 Nov 2003, 09:04 AM
Originally posted by Crazy_Yank
What is the standard of the national league? Is it professional? Who are the best teams/players? Most well known Israeli player?
Iraeli?!?!?!? :)
The National Leauge is called Liga Leumit. That is actually 2nd division. The top leauge or the premier leauge is called Liga A'hal! That is the premier leauge.
Yes, it is professional!!! Most players get anm average or above average salary in israel and the teams compete in the highestl evel of footballl.
Most players get a salary of around 120,000 USD. Some players can even make around 1,000,000! Players who are around 21 and under usually make around 40 to 60,000 and some make 80,000.
If you are a good player it can be in the uproot of 400,000 to 600,000 USD a year.
Though i may remind you, that most israeli teams, have a budget of a full year at around 8-15 million USD!!!
The best teams in Israel are: Hapoel Tel Aviv, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Beitar Jerusalem, Maccabi Haifa and as we speak Bnei Yehuda (Tel Aviv).
The best players in Israel are Yaniv Katan, Nir Davidovitch, Haim Revivo, Yossi Benayoun, Pini Balili and the list goes on.
The most famous players to be or play in israel are:
Avi Cohen - Played in Liverpool & Glasgow Rangers in 80's.
Ronni Rozenthal - Played in Liverpool & Tottenham
Eyal Berkovic - Played in Southampton, Celtic, Man City, and West Ham..