Marco Balbul

Marco Balbul

Personal information
Full name	Marco Balbul
Date of birth	July 13, 1967
Place of birth	Tirat Carmel, Israel
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current team	Maccabi Haifa (Manager)
Youth career
	Maccabi Haifa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1986-1998	Maccabi Haifa	213	(2)
1998-2000	Maccabi Tel Aviv	-	(-)
2000-2002	Maccabi Haifa	3	(0)
National team
1990-1995	Israel	9	(0)
Teams managed
2002-2003	Maccabi Haifa (assistant)
2006	Maccabi Netanya (assistant)
2007-2008	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
2008-2009	Maccabi Tel Aviv (assistant)
2009-2010	Bnei Sakhnin
2011	Maccabi Petah Tikva
2012	FK Partizan (assistant)
2013-2014	Bnei Sakhnin
2014	BEC Tero Sasana (assistant)
2014-2015	Maccabi Haifa
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Marco Balbul, (Hebrew: מרקו בלבול‎; born July 13, 1967), is a former Israeli football defender.

Early life

Marco is the last child of Jewish immigrants from Egypt who arrived in Israel in 1950 and settled in Tirat Carmel. Aged 9, he was accepted to the youth system of Maccabi Haifa. Reuven Held, a coach of one of the youth teams, sent him to train in front of Lazar Steinberg, who allegedly said, on seeing him play, that both Balbul and Ofer Mizrahi would play for the full squad.

Managing career

on 28 December Marco Balbul was declared as the new manager of Maccabi Haifa Football Club, replacing Alexander Stanoyevic who was resigned from the job.

Honours

• Israeli Premier League (3):
  • 1988-89, 1990–91, 1993–94
• State Cup (3):
  • 1991, 1993, 1995

External links

• Profile of Marco Balbul at Maccabi Haifa's official website
• National team stats at IFA