Gal Mesika

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Gal Mesika
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Personal information
Full name Gal Mesika
Date of birth (1988-06-29) June 29, 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Herzliya, Israel
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Maccabi Herzliya [1]
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2007–2009 Maccabi Herzliya 4 (0)
2007–2008 Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan (loan) 1 (0)
2009–2010 Maccabi Kafr Kanna 25 (0)
2010 Hapoel Kfar Shalem 1 (0)
2010–2011 Shimshon Bnei Tayibe 10 (0)
2011–2012 Hapoel Bnei Lod 22 (0)
2012–2013 Hapoel Ra'anana 2 (0)
2014 Amishav Petah Tikva 15 (1)
2014–2015 F.C. Kafr Qasim 16 (0)
2015 Maccabi Netanya 0 (0)
Total96(1)
International career
2006 Israel U-18 2 (0)
2006–2007 Israel U-19 [2] 15 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Gal Mesika
Born:29 June 1988
Herzliya, Israel
Career information
Position(s) Placekicker
Height5 ft 11.3 in (181 cm)
Weight165 lb (75 kg)

Gal Mesika (born June 29, 1988) is an Israeli American football and association football player.

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Biography

Gal Mesika was born in Herzliya to a Tunisian-Jewish family. His father was also a footballer who played for Maccabi Herzliya and also served as the CEO of the club from 1996 to 2009. [3]

Sports career

In association football he is a goalkeeper who has played for many teams including Hapoel Ra'anana in 2013-2014 Maccabi Netanya in 2015. He was the also previously the starting goalkeeper for the Israel national under-19 football team. [4]

In 2015, Mesika made the transition into playing American football, and joined the Israel national American football team as a placekicker. [5] After seeing Mesika play, Robert Kraft stated he expected to soon see an Israeli play in the NFL. [6] In February 2016 Mesika was invited to be the first ever Israeli to try out for the NFL. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ http://eng.football.org.il/Leagues/Pages/PlayerDetails.aspx?PLAYER_ID=6329&SEASON_ID=16
  2. ↑ "The Israel Football Association". Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  3. ↑ "שמעון מסיקה סיים את תפקידו במכבי הרצליה" (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  4. ↑ "Israeli soccer player earns tryout with NFL" . Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  5. ↑ "Israeli soccer player trying out for the NFL". The Canadian Jewish News. 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  6. ↑ "Israeli soccer-turned-football star Mesika headed to US tryout". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  7. ↑ Terry, Erica (2016-02-17). "Israeli Soccer Player Gal Mesika to Try Out with NFL". Jspace News. Archived from the original on February 21, 2016. Retrieved 2018-05-10.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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