Guy Goodes

Guy Goodes was born in 1971 in Haifa

Guy Goodes was born in Haifa on 13 March 1971 and grew up in Kiryat Bialik. His father Yitzhak played basketball and coached him from a young age, and his mother was born in Britain. His two older sisters also played basketball.

He began his career at Hapoel Haifa and played in the first division at age 15. With his school team, ORT Kiryat Bialik, he won the Israeli high school title in 1987 and a world school championship in 1989. In 1990 he moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv and soon became the team's main point guard.

Knee injuries in 1992 and 1995 kept him out for long periods. In 1998 he joined Juvecaserta in Italy, the first Israeli player there, and later played for Cantabria in Spain. He played for the national team from 1995 to 1999 and retired in 2004.

He coached Maccabi Rishon LeZion and Hapoel Jerusalem, where he won 2 Winner Cups. As an assistant at Maccabi Tel Aviv he won the 2014 EuroLeague, then became head coach until his dismissal in November 2015. He later led Rishon LeZion to the 2019 league final.

In 2021 he became head coach of the Israel national team, and in 2022 he also took over Hapoel Holon. He won the Israeli championship with Holon.