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Gai Assulin
Israeli professional footballer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gai Yigaal Assulin (Hebrew: גיא יגאל אסולין; born 9 April 1991) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a winger or an attacking midfielder. He last played for Serie D club Crema.
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![]() Assulin with Barcelona in 2009 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Gai Yigaal Assulin[1] | ||
Date of birth | (1991-04-09) 9 April 1991 (age 33) | ||
Place of birth | Nahariya, Israel | ||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Winger, attacking midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1997–1999 | Hapoel Haifa | ||
1999–2003 | Beitar Nes Tubruk | ||
2003–2007 | Barcelona | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2007–2010 | Barcelona B | 67 | (13) |
2009–2010 | Barcelona | 0 | (0) |
2010–2012 | Manchester City | 0 | (0) |
2012 | → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) | 7 | (0) |
2012–2013 | Racing Santander | 25 | (3) |
2013–2014 | Granada | 0 | (0) |
2013–2014 | Mallorca | 32 | (3) |
2014–2015 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 6 | (0) |
2015–2016 | Sabadell | (0) | |
2018 | Kairat | 6 | (0) |
2019–2021 | Politehnica Iași | 14 | (2) |
2021 | Crema | ||
International career | |||
2008–2013 | Israel U21 | 22 | (0) |
2008 | Israel | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 February 2021 |
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As a teenager, he was registered at Barcelona and Manchester City, but did not make a league appearance for either team. He subsequently became a journeyman, spending short spells at a variety of teams mostly in Spain.
Assulin was capped 22 times by the Israel national under-21 team and once in 2008 by the senior team, becoming their youngest player of all-time.