Background
Giora Spiegel is the son of Eliezer Spiegel, who played for Maccabi Petah Tikva and the Israel national football team
Giora Spiegel is the son of Eliezer Spiegel, who played for Maccabi Petah Tikva and the Israel national football team
Spiegel attended Herzliya Hebrew High School.
As a football player, he holds the record for the longest Israeli career, spanning 14 years and 357 days. As a youth, he played with Maccabi Tel Aviv and was marked early on as a future talent. By seventeen, he was leading the national U-21 side to Asian championships and by eighteen, he had been called up to the full side.
In 1973, he fought with Maccabi manager, Jerry Beit haLevi over transferring to a club in France.
He later left for France, returning in 1979 to rejoin Maccabi. Spiegel began his career as a manager in Hapoel Petah Tikva in the mid-1980s.
After problems with some of the players and a 10–0 defeat to Maccabi Haifa, Spiegel was fired. In 1993, he moved to Maccabi Haifa.
In 1999, Spiegel returned to Bnei Yehuda and after one unsuccessful season with the club he moved to Ironi Rishon LeZion for two years.
In July 2007, after an absence of five years from the Israeli football scene, Spiegel was hired by Beitar Jerusalem as its general manager. In August 2008, he retired. As a Player As a Manager.
Member of the Israeli Football Hall of Fame (2009).