Ilay Madmon[2] (or Madmoun,[3][4] Hebrew: איליי מדמון; born 23 February 2003) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a center-midfielder for Israeli Premier League club Beitar Jerusalerm and captains the Israel national under-19 team.[5][3][4]
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Date of birth | (2003-02-23) 23 February 2003 (age 19) | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Ein HaBesor, Israel[1] | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Center-midfielder | |||||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||||
Current team | Beitar Jerusalem | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
Hapoel Be'er Sheva | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2020– | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 23 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2021–2022 | → Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv (loan) | 34 | (2) | |||||||||||||
2022– | → Beitar Jerusalem (loan) | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2018 | Israel U16 | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2019–2020 | Israel U17 | 16 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2021– | Israel U19 | 13 | (1) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 September 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 June 2022 |
Madmon was born in moshav Ein HaBesor, Israel, to a family of Mizrahi Jewish (Yemeni-Jewish) and Sephardic Jewish descent.[1][6][7] His father Moshe Madmoun hails from a local agricultural family who mainly specializes in growing tomatoes.[1]
He also holds a Spanish passport, which eases the move to certain European football leagues.[6][7]
Madmon made his senior debut with Israeli Premier League club Hapoel Be'er Sheva on 4 July 2020, as well as in the opening line-up against Hapoel Haifa, in a home match that ended in a 3–1 win for his team.[8]
Madmon made his senior debut in the (2020–21) UEFA Europa League against German side Bayer Leverkusen on 26 November 2020, coming in as a 81' minute for substitute in a 1–4 away loss for his Israeli side.[9]
Since 2021, he plays for as well as captains the Israel national under-19 team during the 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship first qualifiers and all its way to the Final against England U-19 on 1 July 2022.[10] He also scored against Austria U-19 during the group stage.[11] Thanks to that, the Israel U-19 has also qualified to the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[12]
Club | Season | League | State Cup | Toto Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 2019–20 | Israeli Premier League | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
2020–21 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 0 | ||
2021–22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
2022–23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
Total | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 34 | 0 | ||
Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv | 2021–22 | Liga Leumit | 34 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 37 | 3 | |
Total | 34 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 37 | 3 | |||
Beitar Jerusalem | 2022–23 | Israeli Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Career total | 57 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 71 | 3 |
Beitar Jerusalem F.C. – current squad | |
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