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Eli Fuchs

Eli Fuchs was an Israeli football player and coach who played for Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Israel national team and later coached clubs in Israel, South Africa and Cyprus.

1924 to 1992Captain of Maccabi Tel AvivIsrael national team playerCoaching Maccabi Haifa

Born: 15 January 1924, Tel Aviv
Died: 21 March 1992
Occupation: association football player, association football coach

Eli Fuchs was born in 1924 in Tel Aviv

Eli Fuchs was born in Tel Aviv on January 15, 1924. Coach Egon Pollak discovered him, and he joined Maccabi Tel Aviv in 1941. His younger brother Yona also played for the club.

Fuchs played as a half back and captained Maccabi Tel Aviv for many years. With the club he won 5 championships and 4 cups. He played 9 games for the Israel national team between 1948 and 1954, some as captain.

In 1954 he left Maccabi Tel Aviv after a dispute with the management and coach Jerry Beit haLevi. He became player-coach at Maccabi Haifa, where he brought an attacking style of play. In 1959 he was announced as national team coach, but the Israel Football Association appointed Gyula Mándi instead, and Fuchs refused to be his assistant.

He later coached many Israeli clubs, including Hapoel Tel Aviv, Maccabi Netanya and Beitar Jerusalem. Abroad he coached in South Africa and Cyprus, winning a league title in each. In 1960 his Omonia Nicosia team lost the title by 1 point after an appeal by Anorthosis Famagusta.

In the late 1980s he wrote sports columns for the newspaper Hadashot. After leaving football he worked in maintenance at Arkia. He died of cardiac arrest on March 21, 1992, and was buried at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery.