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Omer Atzili

Omer Atzili is an Israeli footballer from Holon who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger and was named Israel's Footballer of the Year.

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Born: 27 July 1993, Holon
Occupation: association football player

Omer Atzili was born in 1993 in Holon

Atzili was born in Holon in 1993 and grew up there, in a family of Romanian Jewish descent. He holds a Romanian passport. He married Or Ben-David in 2018, and the couple have a son and a daughter.

He began in the Maccabi Tel Aviv youth system in 2002 and moved to Hapoel Rishon LeZion in 2010. He scored his first Israeli Premier League goal in 2012, and the club was relegated that season.

In 2013 he joined Beitar Jerusalem, where he later served as captain. In 2016 he had a dispute with the club, and that year he moved to Granada in Spain's La Liga.

He returned to Israel with Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2017, played briefly for APOEL in Cyprus, and joined Maccabi Haifa in 2021. In 2022 he scored twice in a Champions League win over Juventus.

In 2023 he signed with Al Ain in the UAE, the first Israeli Jew to play in an Arab country. He played for Israel's national team from 2016 to 2022 and later returned to Beitar Jerusalem.