Amnon Harlap
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 December 1909 | ||
| Place of birth | Rehovot, Ottoman Palestine | ||
| Date of death | 29 May 2006 (aged 96) | ||
| Place of death | Israel | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1925 | Nordia Tel Aviv | ||
| 1925 | HaGibor Tel Aviv | ||
| 1925–1927 | Allenby Tel Aviv | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1927–1930 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | ||
| 1930–1931 | ARA La Gantoise 2 (0) | ||
| 1931–1935 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | ||
| 1935–1937 | Hapoel Rehovot | ||
| International career | |||
| 1934 | Eretz Israel | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Amnon Harlap (Hebrew: אמנון חרל"פ; 13 December 1909 – 29 May 2006) was an Israeli footballer, who played for Hapoel Tel Aviv and the Mandatory Palestine national football team.[1]
Playing career
[edit]Harlap was born in Rehovot in 1909, and started playing football with friends in his hometown. At high-school age, he attended the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv, where he joined local youth club Allenby Tel Aviv, which was initially affiliated with Maccabi Tel Aviv, but its members decided to withdraw from Maccabi, due to the professional attitude towards sports and merged in 1927 with Hapoel Tel Aviv.[2] Harlap stayed with Hapoel until 1935, but in loan one year to Belgium by ARA La Gantoise where he play two games in Second Division. When he was forced to retire from football due to injury.[3] Harlap won 2 championships and 2 cups, scoring the first goal in the 1934 cup final. Harlap was also part of the Mandatory Palestine national football team, and played two matches for the team, against Egypt in 1934.[3][4]
Personal life
[edit]After retiring, Harlap lived in Rehovot, where he worked at the family's business, a construction materials shop. He was also a board member of Hapoel Rehovot.[5] He was brother-in-low of Yitzhak Katz, who married Harlap's sister, Bat-Sheva.[6] His great-nephew is singer and actor Gidi Gov.[3]
Honours
[edit]External links
[edit]- Amnon Harlap Hapoel Wiki (in Hebrew)
References
[edit]- ^ National Team Player Details – Harlap Amnon IFA (in Hebrew)
- ^ 85 Years to Hapoel Allenby Tel Aviv Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Asher Goldberg, 6 June 2012, IFA (in Hebrew)
- ^ a b c Eretz Israel Was Beaten Thoroughly Ron Amikam, 17 September 2001, NRG (in Hebrew)
- ^ Amnon Harlap RIP Archived December 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine 5 June 2006, Wingate Institute
- ^ Between Egypt, Turkey, Tel Aviv and Rehovot: The Way of Amnon Harlap Archived December 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine 5 June 2006, Wingate Institute (in Hebrew)
- ^ Tidhar, David (1947). "Amnon Harlap" יצחק כץ. Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel (in Hebrew). Vol. 11. Estate of David Tidhar and Touro College Libraries. p. 3722.