Personal information | |||
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Full name | Yoav Pini Gerafi | ||
Date of birth | 29 August 1993 | ||
Place of birth | Tel Mond, Israel | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Hapoel Haifa | ||
Number | 1 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010–2014 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 5 | (0) |
2014–2023 | F.C. Ashdod | 180 | (0) |
2014–2015 | → Hapoel Ra'anana (loan) | 2 | (0) |
2019–2020 | → Hapoel Tel Aviv (loan) | 22 | (0) |
2023– | Hapoel Haifa | 25 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2022– | Israel | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 April 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 September 2022 |
Yoav Pini Gerafi (sometimes Jarafi or Jerafi,[2][3] Hebrew: יואב פיני ג'ראפי; born 29 August 1993) is an Israeli footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Israeli Premier League club Hapoel Haifa and the Israel national team.
Gerafi was born in Tel Mond, Israel, to a family of Mizrahi Jewish (Yemenite-Jewish) descent.[citation needed]
Gerafi made his professional debut for Hapoel Ra'anana in the Israeli Premier League on 14 February 2015, coming on as a substitute in the 14th minute for Shoval Gozlan after starting goalkeeper Daniel Lifshitz was sent off in the 11th minute. The match finished as a 2–1 win for Hapoel Ra'anana.[4]
On 11 June 2023 signed for two seasons in Hapoel Haifa.[5]
In March 2019, Gerafi was first called up to the senior Israel national team ahead of the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying matches against Slovenia and Austria.[6] He made his debut on 27 September 2022 in a friendly game against Malta.[7]