nationalcaps birth_date currentclub pcupdate years youthyears caps goals nationalyears image name caption fullname ntupdate birth_place nationalteam height nationalgoals youthclubs clubs position article_title
9 12 20 march 1985 maccabi netanya 18 january 2013 2000 -- 04 2013 -- 2014 2014 -- 2000 -- 04 237 14 20 41 1 1 2005 -- 2007 2006 -- 2008 עמית בן שושן קפטן בית '' ר ירושלים.png amit ben shushan ben shushan with beitar jerusalem in 2013 amit ben shushan 16 november 2013 jerusalem , israel israel u-21 israel 1.77 m on 1 2 beitar jerusalem beitar jerusalem anorthosis famagusta maccabi netanya striker / winger amit ben shushan

amit ben shushan

amit ben shushan -lrb- ; born march 20 , 1985 in jerusalem -rrb- is an israeli football player .
he is currently playing maccabi netanya .
ben shushan can play as a striker or as a supporting forward on the wing .
he made a name for himself after his series of goals during beitar 's intertoto campaign in 2005 .
he made his debut for the israel national football team vs estonia on september 2 , 2006 when he came in as a sub for fellow team-mate michael zandberg .
in the next match vs andorra he played for 90 minutes scoring his first senior goal for his country and assisting for 2 more goals .
on october 7 , ben shushan scored israel 's only goal in the away match against russia securing a draw that could have turned vital for israel .
ben shushan is part of a group of young players who helped transform beitar jerusalem 's youth into a leading israeli soccer academy .
at the time he joined beitar , city rival hapoel jerusalem was still the leading youth team in jerusalem .
despite living less than 200 meters away from hapoel jerusalem 's training facility in kiryat-hayovel , ben shushan opted for beitar .
