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Gadi Kinda

Gadi Kinda was an Israeli footballer who played as an attacking midfielder for clubs in Israel and the United States and for the Israel national team.

1994 to 2025Attacking midfielder for F.C. AshdodPlaying for Sporting Kansas CityGoal on Israel national team debut

Born: 23 March 1994, Addis Ababa
Died: 20 May 2025, Haifa
Occupation: association football player

Gadi Kinda was born in 1994 in Addis Ababa

Kinda was born in 1994 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to an Ethiopian-Jewish family. At age 3 he moved to Israel with his family, and they lived in Ashdod.

He came up through the youth ranks of F.C. Ashdod and made his senior debut in 2011. The club fell to the second tier after the 2014/2015 season, and he helped it return to the Premier League. In February 2019 he joined Beitar Jerusalem, where he won the Toto Cup.

In 2020 he moved to Sporting Kansas City in Major League Soccer and scored in his first game. A knee operation kept him out for the whole 2022 season. In 2024 he returned to Israel and signed with Maccabi Haifa.

He first played for the senior national team on 5 June 2021, in a friendly against Montenegro. He came on as a substitute and scored in a 3-1 win.

In April 2025 he was found to have pancreatic cancer. He died on 20 May 2025 and was buried in Ashdod. He left his wife Liran and two daughters, and F.C. Ashdod named its youth team after him.