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Felix Naim

Felix Naim is an Israeli football manager and former player who coached Hapoel Kfar Saba in the Israeli Premier League.

born 1960Coaching Hapoel Kfar SabaDiscovering Đovani RosoScouting for Eli Guttman

Born: 9 May 1960, Israel
Occupation: association football coach, association football player

Felix Naim was born in 1960 in Israel

Felix Naim was born in Israel on May 9, 1960. As a young man he played handball and was part of Israel's youth national team.

He started playing football at 18 with the youth team of HaTzair Haifa, then played for Maccabi Neve Sha'anan alongside Eli Guttman. After his army service he lived with his brother in Paris and played for an amateur team in the French fifth tier.

Back in Israel he turned to coaching. In 1997 Guttman named him scout of Hapoel Be'er Sheva, where he found Đovani Roso, and he kept working with Guttman at Hapoel Haifa and Beitar Jerusalem before going on his own in the lower leagues.

In 2013 he became coach of Hapoel Kfar Saba and led it up 2 leagues to the Premier League, but he was fired in January 2016. He later coached Hapoel Petah Tikva, returned to Kfar Saba in 2017, and coached Bnei Sakhnin until January 2018.