Barak Bakhar
![]() Bakhar in 2014 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Barak Bakhar | ||
Date of birth | 21 September 1979 | ||
Place of birth | Tzrufa, Israel | ||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
F.C. Neve Yosef | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1998–2002 | Hakoah Ramat Gan | ||
2002–2004 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 50 | (0) |
2004–2011 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | 156 | (2) |
Teams managed | |||
2011–2012 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona (assistant) | ||
2012–2015 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | ||
2015–2020 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | ||
2020– | Maccabi Haifa | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Barak Bakhar (Hebrew: ברק בכר; born 21 September 1979) is an Israeli association football manager and former footballer.
Early and personal life[]
Bakhar was born in moshav Tzrufa, Israel, to a Turkish-born father of Sephardic Jewish descent, and to an Israeli-born mother of Ashkenazi Jewish (Polish-Jewish) descent. His uncle was the Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam "Gandhi" Ze'evi, who was assassinated by Palestinian terrorists.[1]
He is married, has three children, and resides in Holon, Israel.
Playing career[]
After going through the ranks of the youth system of , Bakhar transferred to Liga Artzit side, Hakoah Ramat Gan.[2] After four seasons in the second tier of Israeli football, he made the jump to Hapoel Petah Tikva.
In 2004, Bakhar joined Liga Leumit side, Ironi Kiryat Shmona. He established himself in the starting line up on the right side of their defense and helped them gain promotion to Israeli Premier League, the highest tier of Israeli football. During the 2007–08 season, Bakhar played all but one league match for Kiryat Shmona, due to yellow card accumulation.
In October 2008, Bakhar was called up by national team manager, Dror Kashtan for the FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Luxembourg and Latvia. His call up was canceled though, being that he never completed his service in the IDF, a requirement of all Jewish players in order to represent Israel on the national side, and Eyal Meshumar was called up in his place.[3]
Bakhar cited that the IDF did not suit him as to why he did not complete his service. He told Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth, "they wanted to send me to a combat unit in the armor corps." Additionally, Sport 5 pointed out that Bakhar was not match fit and was expected to undergo surgery soon. This in turn embarrassed the Israel Football Association that they had missed all these items before announcing the pool of players called in for the qualification matches[4]
Managerial career[]
On 3 October 2012, Bakhar was appointed as the manager of Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona.[5] On 14 May 2015, he ended his contract. In the 2015–16 season, he was appointed of manager of Hapoel Be'er Sheva. He got Be'er Sheva to win the Israeli League for the first time in forty years after a 3–1 win against Bnei Sachnin. By winning the league, Be'er Sheva got in the UEFA Champions League for the first time and will start in the second qualifying round. He got Be'er Sheva into the third qualifying round of 2016–17 UEFA Champions League in a 3–2 win on aggregate against Sheriff Tiraspol. Then, he got Be'er Sheva secured a Europa League group stage position by stunning Greek side Olympiacos 1–0 on aggregate, the furthest they ever reached. In the playoff qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League, Badkar's Be'er Sheva lost 5–4 on aggregate to Celtic despite winning 2–0 at Turner Stadium. In the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, Be'er Sheva made it in the round of 32 in the Europa League in second place behind Sparta Prague in Group K by getting famous results against Southampton and Inter Milan. Bakhar also won the Toto Cup for Be'er Sheva on 28 December 2016 beating his former club Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona 4–1.
Managerial statistics[]
As of 14 February 2022
Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
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G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||
Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona | ![]() |
3 October 2012 | 14 May 2015 | 114 | 56 | 28 | 30 | 49.12 |
Hapoel Be'er Sheva | ![]() |
24 May 2015 | 6 January 2020 | 144 | 90 | 33 | 21 | 62.50 |
Maccabi Haifa | ![]() |
8 July 2020 | Present | 86 | 55 | 15 | 16 | 63.95 |
Total | 344 | 201 | 76 | 67 | 58.43 |
Honours[]
As a player[]
Hakoah Maccabi Ramat Gan
Ironi Kiryat Shmona
As a manager[]
- Israel State Cup (1): 2014
- Israeli Premier League (4): 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2020–21
- Israel Super Cup: (3): 2016, 2017, 2021
References[]
- ^ Sardis, Adi (6 October 2008). ברק בכר: מוצדק לא לזמן שחקנים שהשתמטו (in Hebrew). Yedioth Ahronoth. Archived from the original on 9 October 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2008.
- ^ Up until 1999, the top division of Israeli football was the Liga Leumit; since then, it has been Israeli Premier League.
- ^ Sardis, Adi (5 October 2008). זימונו של ברק בכר בוטל, בגלל שלא השלים צבא: זימונו של ברק בכר בוטל (in Hebrew). Yedioth Ahronoth. Archived from the original on 8 October 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
- ^ Shifchotzky, Motti (5 October 2008). ברק בכר נכלל בסגל של דרור קשטן למרות שלא שירת בצה"ל (in Hebrew). Sport 5. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
- ^ אלבז, שמעון (10 March 2012). "שרצקי: "דברים ביני לבין גילי לא עבדו". צפו" – via Ynet.
External links[]
- Barak Bakhar's profile on Ironi Kiryat Shmona's official website
- ברק בכר (in Hebrew). One.co.il. Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2008.
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Israeli people of Turkish-Jewish descent
- Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Israeli footballers
- Association football defenders
- Hakoah Maccabi Ramat Gan F.C. players
- Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. players
- Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona F.C. players
- People from Tzrufa
- Liga Leumit players
- Israeli Premier League players
- Israeli football managers
- Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona F.C. managers
- Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C. managers
- Maccabi Haifa F.C. managers
- Israeli Ashkenazi Jews
- Israeli Sephardi Jews
- Israeli Mizrahi Jews