George Borba
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Giorgio Borba | ||
Date of birth | 12 July 1944 | ||
Place of birth | Macerata, Marche, Italy | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1965–1972 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | ||
1972–1973 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | ||
1973–1974 | Maccabi Netanya | ||
International career | |||
Israel | 37 | (7) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
George Borba (Hebrew: ג'ורג' בורבה; born on 12 July 1944 in Italy), is a former Israeli international footballer who was part of the squad that competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics[1] and the 1970 FIFA World Cup, Israel's only world cup appearance. His family was Libyan Jew from Tripoli (Libya).
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]- AFC champions league (1): 1967
- Israeli Premier League (3): 1965–66, 1968–69, 1973–74
- Israel Super Cup (1): 1970
- Israel State Cup (1): 1972
References
[edit]- ^ "George Borba Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 24 May 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
Categories:
- 1944 births
- Libyan Jews
- 20th-century Italian Jews
- Living people
- Israeli men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Israel men's international footballers
- 1968 AFC Asian Cup players
- 1970 FIFA World Cup players
- AFC Champions League Elite–winning players
- Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. players
- Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim F.C. players
- Maccabi Netanya F.C. players
- Footballers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for Israel
- Italian emigrants to Israel
- Libyan emigrants to Israel
- Italian people of Libyan-Jewish descent
- Footballers from Tel Aviv
- Sportspeople from Macerata
- Footballers from the Province of Macerata
- Israeli football biography stubs