List of Jewish footballers [R], part II

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  1. MHaifa1913

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    Dec 21, 1998
    New York, NY, USA
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    Maccabi Haifa FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  2. daniloni

    daniloni Member+

    Tottenham Hotspur
    United States
    Jul 17, 2013
    Oakland, CA
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It looks like Nicolaievsky recently transferred from Gimnasia La Plata to Almagro. According to Wikipedia, he had nine senior appearances for Gimnasia, who play in the first division. However, Almagro is in the third division, so quite a step down for him.

    Kuzniecka is in the Boca academy, nowhere near the first team, so I don't think he should be included in this list. Here is something I found from a Jewish community newspaper in Argentina:

    http://diariostampa.com.ar/le-mete-presion/
     
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  3. MHaifa1913

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  4. Gilbertsson

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    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    #379 Gilbertsson, Oct 9, 2016
    Last edited: Oct 9, 2016
    Cvit means Flower in Croatian Dalmatian language. Several Croatian surnames with the root Cvit: Cvitanovic (footballers), Cvitesic (actress), Cvitkovic.
    Also, roots Cvet, Cvjet - have the same meaning Flower. His origins are from island of Brac.

    Some other people with the same surname:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakša_Cvitanić
    https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cvitani
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16493497 (both surnames are Croatian)

    https://books.google.hr/books?id=aIBmjEJePAgC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=cvitanic wikipedia&source=bl&ots=xfBcPLRuWD&sig=NkE6h0bOzwFgcsOuNlockeuzJ0o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOvIfl1M3PAhXrJZoKHaROCnk4FBDoAQgZMAA#v=onepage&q=cvitanic wikipedia&f=false

    Wikipedia is not so reliable, other sources would be much more helpful.

    You can check the Transfermarkt website, many players in the new world have double citizenship or both surnames. Solid starter to begin with.:cool:

    Potential players:

    Felipe Fritz, birthplace Coronel (often Jewish surname)
    http://www.transfermarkt.com/felipe-fritz/profil/spieler/386439

    Angelo Sagal
    http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/angelo-sagal/profil/spieler/190941

    Ricardo Noir Meyer
    http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ricardo-noir/profil/spieler/74688

    David Llanos Almonacid
    http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/david-llanos/profil/spieler/89785
     
  5. ICohen5

    ICohen5 New Member

    May 10, 2016
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    Maccabi Haifa FC
    Igor Filipenko (Ex-Malaga) has recently received citizenship and now plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv.
     
  6. Gilbertsson

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    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
  7. Gilbertsson

    Gilbertsson Member+

    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
  8. Gilbertsson

    Gilbertsson Member+

    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
  9. Gilbertsson

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    Barcelona
    Spain
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    Geneva
    Club:
    Toronto Croatia
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
  10. EvanJ

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    Manchester United
    United States
    Mar 30, 2004
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    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  11. Gilbertsson

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    Geneva
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    Switzerland
    #388 Gilbertsson, Jun 22, 2017
    Last edited: Jun 22, 2017
    I am aware of that. Sometimes surname talks louder than the person. For example, Argentine-Croatian tennis coach Daniel Orsanic has Jewish grandmother (Ivana Berger), she is from Croatia also. They got married and left in Argentina cca 1945.

    This is his grandfather: https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Oršanić

    Daniel Orsanic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Orsanic

    Surname Orsanic is Croatian for sure.

    By the way, nice link you posted, simple and easy to use.
     
  12. sportaddict

    sportaddict New Member

    Liverpool FC
    Australia
    Jul 3, 2017
  13. Gilbertsson

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    Barcelona
    Spain
    Apr 1, 2012
    Geneva
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    Switzerland
  14. Scotty

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    Dec 15, 1999
    Toscana
  15. MHaifa1913

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    I’ve never found anything for him. But Matt Turner is of Jewish descent on his father’s side and would qualify for Israeli citizenship.
     
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  16. Scotty

    Scotty Member+

    Dec 15, 1999
    Toscana
    Tanner Tessmann?
     
  17. MHaifa1913

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    Highly unlikely. Surname is not a known Jewish one and he grew up in Alabama which has so few Jews.
     
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  18. sportaddict

    sportaddict New Member

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    There are a few in Australia at the moment. Jordi Swibel at Western Sydney. Zac Sapsford and Jake Girdwood-Reich in the Sydney FC youth team. Jacob Muir in the Perth Glory youth team.
     
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  19. FootyFan365

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    Jun 23, 2008
    Indy
    Club:
    FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
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    Ukraine
    Yari Maier? Young goalie for Valladolid B, moved from Ukraine @ 5 years old...
     
  20. Scotty

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  21. MHaifa1913

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    United States
    Yeah...no way. Community is tiny. Mostly from Spain and Portugal so typically they'd have a Latino or Hebrew last name.
     
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  22. MHaifa1913

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    United States
    From Wikipedia: The name is also very popular in Turkey, where the meaning of Kaplan is tiger. When the Turks adopted surnames after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's surname reform, animals as surnames such as lion (Aslan) and tiger (Kaplan) were very common.
     
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