Avi Nimni
Avi Nimni (born 26 April 1972) is an Israeli football player, and Maccabi Tel Aviv's highest ever scorer. He is regarded as one of Maccabi Tel Aviv's greatest players ever. Until 2006, he served as the captain of the Israeli national football team. His number 8 shirt has become so symbolic (despite him wearing the number sixteen as a youth, because Uri Malmilian wore the number 8) that the club has retired the number at the end of his active football.
Football career
Early years
When Nimni was approximately seven years old when he joined Maccabi Tel Aviv's training facility Kiriat Shalom. Nimni played for every Maccabi youth team and also featured for the Israeli national youth sides.
At 17 he played his first game in the Liga Leumit and was a regular for Maccabi's first team at 18. Whilst at Maccabi Nimni experienced much success becoming one of the most important players in side during this period.
In 1998 he inherited the Maccabi captaincy when the previous longserving captain Nir Klinger retired through injury. Klinger went on to become assistant coach at Maccabi.
Podcasts:
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by Sex Gang Children
Oh Funny Man
by: Sex Gang ChildrenLet the dynasty die it's so hard,
it's hard..
let sleeping dogs lie,
just in time so well out of line to insult
the hand that feeds you,
I am the gift that paid a thousand bribes.
Please treat them kindly oh funny little man,
come and see the clown with your stick and your hat,
walk like a cat with your stick and your hat
..walk like a cat,
champagne for the horses sucked on by rats!
Never part of the idle class
always gave them a great big kick in the arse,
this funny little man who showed me alabaster..
have you ever seen a shrunken head?
Shake in your bed!
No telephone calls today all my friends gone away,
when you're out of fashion
it's a lonely price you pay..
fat boys should be flogged with your thin white cane.
It is only the dreamers who ever move mountains,
it's where my real audience waits.
It's like talking to my pig about the opera days,
reminisce like the mass that follows anything that
moves!
Orinoco, Satorico.. just like Pablo!
I sat in the house with my gun on the table..
Conquistador of the useless
lives in the past..
there's something missing..
oh but then how he fills me,
it's all in my face.
The dice is thrown for life!
No telephone calls today all my friends gone away,
when you're out of fashion
it's a lonely price you pay..