Israel
- Qualification:
- Finished top of Asia and Oceania second round group 2, and top of the final round
- Position:
- Finished 4th in Group 2
- Scorers:
- 1 Goal: Mordechai Spiegler
- Fifa Ranking:
- 13th
World Cup Mexico 70: Israel
Feiwel Bar
Meir Barad
Menachem Bello
Yeshoshua Feigenbaum
Yachiel Hameiri
David Karako
Mordechai Lubetsky
David Primo
Shmuel Rosenthal
Emmanuel Scheffer
Giora Spiegel
Mordechai Spiegler
Itzhak Schum
Aharen Shuruk
Itzhak Vissoker
Yochanan Wallach
Kosher 🙂
Can anyone think of much to say about Israel, the only Middle Eastern side in the event ? No I wouldn’t have thought so, did they only manage to hold Italy to a draw due to the latter’s defensive style of play ? And the one all draw with Sweden hardly gave them much to shout about, teams like Stoke City, West Ham or QPR would’ve fared better than them.
Italy did score a goal which was unjustifiably cancelled.
In the other hand, Israel vs Sweden, Israel was as good as Sweden and this was a great achievement to Israeli football to be equal to one of the best football teams in the world,
Dont forget that in order to qualify, all Israel had to do was to beat Australia and since then, all that mattered to Israeli squad was not to concede 5 -7 each game and they achieved that goal !