Bryan Man (Hebrew: בריאן מן; born December 8, 1983) is an Argentine-Israeli professional football (soccer) player.

Bryan Man
בריאן מן
Personal information
Date of birth (1983-12-08) 8 December 1983 (age 40)
Place of birth Argentina
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
Maccabi Buenos Aires
Youth career
Hapoel Ra'anana
Maccabi Tel Aviv
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2002 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2 (0)
2002–2003 Hapoel Ra'anana - (-)
2004–2005 Quilmes Atlético Club
2005 Bnei Yehuda 0 (0)
2006 Hapoel Ramat Gan 1 (0)
2006–2007 Hapoel Ra'anana 17 (2)
2007–2008 Maccabi HaShikma Ramat Hen 30 (8)
2008–2010 Hapoel Ashkelon 56 (13)
2011 – ? Maccabi Buenos Aires - (?)
International career
1999 Israel U16 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 08:49, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 08:49, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Biography edit

Early life edit

Man made aliyah with his family in 1998 under the Law of Return. His parents had a difficult time adapting to live in Israel, so they returned to Argentina. Bryan and his sister Michelle returned to Israel though.[1]

Playing career edit

After going through the ranks of Maccabi Tel Aviv's youth academy, Man did not get a lot of playing time under Nir Klinger. Man himself attributes this to Klinger's preference of foreign strikers and not domestic strikers from the youth ranks.[1] Later he played with small scale clubs, and in June 2010 was released from Hapoel Ashkelon. He is a free agent and lives in Ashkelon.

National team career edit

Man made his debut for a national side when he appeared for the Israel national under-16 football team on December 29, 1999, when they played their Swiss counterparts in a locally organized tournament. He ended up playing two more games in the following two days against the Turkish and Austrian sides. He is eligible to play for Israel and Argentina national teams.

Personal life edit

Man has five tattoos, including a tattoo of the number 7 (his preferred shirt number) and of the crest of his favorite football club and he has a group of friends that once every two weeks they have lunch in Tigre Morado, a good sushi place in Argentina, but lately they are not going, and that is sad., Boca Juniors.Es muy bostero y a veces de Velez. Se lo conoce como el Chileno. [1]

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ a b c Levi, Eli (2008-07-24). הארגנטינאי החדש של הפועל אשקלון (in Hebrew). Yedioth Ahronoth. Retrieved 2008-10-10.