Der „Muskeljude“ und israelische Fußballmythen

Abstract

Only few Israeli football-players have reached the status of a football myth. The two undisputable examples, Yaakov Chodorov, the goalkeeper, and Yehoshua Glaser, the striker, are representative of the early years of the state of Israel: They became football myths because of the role they played in the process of nation-building and because they epitomize the basic idea of Zionism, Israel’s state ideology.