Reuven Atar
Reuven Atar (Hebrew: ראובן עטר; born January 3, 1969) is a retired Israeli football player who was mostly known for his career in Maccabi Haifa and now he works as the manager of Bnei Lod. As a manager, he is mostly known for his work with Maccabi Netanya.
Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Professional career
- 3 Coaching career
- 4 Honours
- 4.1 Player
- 4.2 Manager
- 5 career statistics
- 5.1 Club
- 5.2 International
- 5.3 International goals
- 6 Managerial stats
- 7 References
- 8 External links
Early life
Atar was born in Tirat Carmel, Israel, to Sephardic Jewish immigrant parents from Morocco. During his adolescence, he played football for the Maccabi Haifa youth club. For many, he is one of the greatest players to ever wear the Haifa colors.
Professional career
After playing eight seasons for Maccabi Haifa and winning three *les for the club (The Toto Cup, and the Israeli Cup twice – one of which as both a Cup and a championship *le at the same year), he joined the local rival team – Hapoel Haifa for four seasons, before being signed off to Beitar Jerusalem. At Beitar he played only one match before being injured, which rendered him unable to play during the rest of the season.
In the next season, Atar moved to Hapoel Petah Tikva for a single season, before moving back to Hapoel Haifa and a few months later back to Beitar Jerusalem, where he became one of the most popular players. In 2000, he returned to Maccabi Haifa, winning two championships. Atar left Haifa for Maccabi Netanya before the 2002/03 season, the last team in his professional career as a player.
Coaching career
During the season in Netanya, Atar was injured and decided to retire from his career as a player. He quickly signed as *istant coach in Netanya, first alongside Gili Landau and later on Eli Cohen. At the end of the 2003/04 season, Cohen has left the club, and Atar was chosen as the club's head-coach. Even though the M.C Netanya was relegated at the end of that season to the second league in Israel, "Liga Leumit", Atar remained in his position and helped the club return to the Premier League after only one season. In 2006, Atar was sent home by Netanya's new manager, Eyal Berkovich, and proceeded to move and coach Maccabi Herzliya, from which he was fired after only 8 league games before returning to Netanya, later guiding the club to the second place in the Israeli Premier League, and the UEFA Cup Qualifying rounds.
Atar was later dismissed from Netanya, after team's owner Daniel Jammer signed Lothar Matthäus.
In September 2008, he signed for Beitar replacing Shum. Later that year he won the Israeli Cup, but was dismissed and replaced by Shum.
On September 29, 2009, Atar returned once again to Maccabi Netanya, making it his 3rd stint as the manager of the club. On May 7, 2011, he broke Netanya's undefeated streak from 1971 as he managed the team for 16 straight games without losing a single game.
On April 23, 2012, he signed a two years contract for his home club of Maccabi Haifa. In November 13 he was sacked from Haifa.
On March 19, 2013, he returned to Maccabi Netanya for his 4th stint as the manager of the club.
In the start of the 2014–15 season he worked as the manager of Hapoel Haifa. He was fired after 4 months on the job.
On November 6, 2015, Atar returned to Maccabi Netanya for his 5th stint as the manager of the club.
Honours
Player
Maccabi HaifaWinner
- Israeli Premier League:: 1988–89, 1990–91, 1993–94, 2000–01, 2001–02
- State Cup:: 1991, 1993
- Toto Cup:: 1993–94, 2001–02
Runner-up
- State Cup:: 1987, 1989, 2002
Runner-up
- Israeli Premier League:: 1994–95, 1995–96
Manager
Maccabi Netanya- Toto Cup (Leumit): Winner:: 2004–05
- Israeli Second Division:: Runner-up:: 2004–05
- Israeli Premier League: Runner-up:: 2006–07, 2007–08
- State Cup:: Winner:: 2009
career statistics
Club
International
International goals
Managerial stats
References
External links
- Reuven Atar at National-Football-Teams.com