Omri Glazer

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Omri Glazer
Glazer playing for Maccabi Haifa in 2016
Personal information
Full name Omri Glazer[1]
Date of birth (1996-03-11) 11 March 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Tel Aviv, Israel
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
Red Star Belgrade
Number 18[1]
Youth career
2006–2013 Maccabi Tel Aviv
2013–2016 Hapoel Ra'anana
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2016 Hapoel Ra'anana 7 (0)
2016–2021 Maccabi Haifa 57 (0)
2019–2020Sektzia Ness Ziona (loan) 33 (0)
2021–2023 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 66 (0)
2023– Red Star Belgrade 24 (0)
International career
2014 Israel U19 4 (0)
2015–2018 Israel U21 9 (0)
2017– Israel 12 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 March 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13 March 2024

Omri Glazer (Hebrew: עומרי גלזר; born 11 March 1996) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serbian SuperLiga club Red Star Belgrade and the Israel national team.

Early and personal life[edit]

Glazer was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, to an Israeli family of Ashkenazi Jewish (Romanian-Jewish) descent.[2][3][4][5][6]

He also holds a Romanian passport, on account of his Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors, which eases the move to certain European football leagues.[5][6]

Club career[edit]

Glazer started his career in the youth department of Maccabi Tel Aviv, and at the age of 17 he joined the youth team of Hapoel Ra'anana.[7] On 16 May 2015, he made his senior debut, when he started in a 4–2 loss to Hapoel Petah Tikva in the last round of the 2014–15 season.

On 23 June 2016, Glazer signed for Maccabi Haifa.[8] He initially served as a substitute goalkeeper for Ohad Levita, before becoming the first goalkeeper following the latter's injury. In July 2019, he was loaned out to Sektzia Ness Ziona.[9]

In June 2021, he signed a three-year contract with Hapoel Be'er Sheva.[10] In the 2022 Israel State Cup final, he managed to save three penalties during the shootouts to win the title against his former club Maccabi Haifa. Afterward that year, he saved another two penalties in a 4–3 victory in the shootouts against the same opponent during the Israel Super Cup.

On 22 June 2023, Glazer signed a three-year contract with Red Star Belgrade.[11] Later that year, on 19 September, he managed to hold the record for most saves in a single UEFA Champions League game, with 13 saves for Red Star Belgrade in a 2023–24 group stage match against Manchester City, despite an eventual 3–1 defeat.[12]

International career[edit]

In November 2016, he was first called-up to the senior Israeli squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup European qualifiers, ahead of the match against Albania.

Honours[edit]

Maccabi Haifa

Hapoel Be'er Sheva

Individual

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Omri Glazer". playmakerstats.com.
  2. ^ "Omri Glazer on Instagram: "התחלה חדשה❤️ כמה כיף להתחיל את העונה עם ניצחון 💪 שבת שלום! #55"".
  3. ^ "Omri Glazer on Instagram: "שבת שלום.💚"".
  4. ^ "חג גדול לדרומיים!". September 2023.
  5. ^ a b אלבז, שמעון (20 June 2017). "שלב ההוכחות של עומרי גלזר". Ynet.
  6. ^ a b "בידיים בטוחות: בנבחרת סומכים על גלזר". 23 March 2023.
  7. ^ "משוך בגלזר: עומרי גלזר מבוקש במכבי חיפה, מכבי תל אביב שוב תצטער?". sports.walla.co.il (in Hebrew). 16 April 2016.
  8. ^ "עומרי גלזר עבר למכבי חיפה תמורת כמיליון שקל". one.co.il (in Hebrew). 23 June 2016.
  9. ^ "גלזר הושאל לנס ציונה, ג'וש כהן במו"מ מתקדם". sport5.co.il (in Hebrew). 18 July 2019.
  10. ^ "עומרי גלזר חתם לשלוש שנים בהפועל ב"ש". one.co.il (in Hebrew). 15 June 2021.
  11. ^ "Omri is red-and-white". FK Crvena Zvezda. 22 June 2023.
  12. ^ "UEFA Champions League: 2023/24 group stage in numbers". UEFA. 18 December 2023.
  13. ^ "הרים את הכפפה: עומרי גלזר שוער העונה בליגה". ONE. 11 May 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  14. ^ "כפפת הזהב: עומרי גלזר שוער העונה בליגת העל". ONE. 18 May 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.

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