Yair Nossovsky

Yair Nossovsky was born in 1937 in Israel

Yair Nossovsky was born on 29 June 1937 and grew up in Tel Aviv. His parents came from Poland and Lithuania in 1925. He grew up in the Motzkin neighborhood near Gan Meir and attended the Tel Nordau school.

He played in the boys' team of Hakoah Ramat Gan and moved to the youth team Gadna Yehuda in 1953. In 1955 he joined the senior team of Hapoel Kfar Saba as a backup goalkeeper.

He played for Hapoel Kfar Saba until 1971 and again from 1973. In between he played for Hapoel Beersheba and Hakoah Ramat Gan, and won the league title with Hakoah. In 1975 he won the State Cup with Kfar Saba, and he scored 4 goals as a goalkeeper.

He was a backup goalkeeper for the Israel national team. He played against England's under-23 team in 1961, Bulgaria in 1965 and Ethiopia in 1970, and was in the squad for the 1970 World Cup. After retiring as a player he became team manager of Hapoel Kfar Saba.

He is retired from the Egged company and lives in Hod HaSharon. He has two children from his first marriage and a daughter from his second. His son Ofer also played as a goalkeeper for Hapoel Kfar Saba.