Full name Lior Asulin Years Team Position Forward 1995–1997 Maccabi Herzliya Height 1.71 m | Playing position Role Footballer Name Lior Asulin | |
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Number 11 (Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. / Forward) Similar People Reuven Oved, Eran Levy, Gai Assulin, Salim Tuama | ||
Current team Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. Born 6 October 1980 (age 43), Ra'anana, Israel Died 7 October 2023 (aged 43), Re'im, Israel Senior career 1997–2007 (Maccabi Herzliya), 2002–2003 (Maccabi Petah Tikva (loan)), 2003–2004 (Bnei Sakhnin (loan)), 2004–2006 (Beitar Jerusalem (loan)), 2006–2007 (Bnei Yehuda (loan)), 2007–2008 (Hapoel Tel Aviv), 2008(Apollon Limassol (loan)), 2008–2009(Maccabi Petah Tikva), 2009–2011(Hapoel Be'er Sheva), 2011–2012(Hapoel Ramat Gan), 2012–2013(Hapoel Rishon LeZion), 2013–2014 (Hapoel Petah Tikva), 2014–2015(Hapoel Ashkelon), 2015–2016(Hapoel Petah Tikva), 2016(Hapoel Marmorek), 2017(Hapoel Nazareth Illit) Nationality Israeli | ||
Lior Asulin (Hebrew: ליאור אסולין; 6 October 1980 – 7 October 2023) was a male Israeli footballer who currently plays as a striker for Hapoel Nazareth Illiy.
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Maccabi Herzliya and Ariel Shaiman
A native of Ra'anana, Israel he grew up in the youth system of Maccabi Herzliya and it was there that he made the jump to Israel's highest league, Israeli Premier League but did not last long as the club was relegated just two seasons after he made the first team. In Liga Leumit Lior scored a league leading twenty-eight goals, so after the 2001–02 season, club chairman Ariel Shaiman loaned Lior out to clubs in the top league and signed him to a long term contract with Herzliya hoping to cash in on a large transfer fee.
During his seasons on loan, Lior has won the State Cup and established himself as one of the top Israeli strikers in the domestic league. Subsequently, after the end of the 2005–06 season, Herzliya chairman Ariel Shaiman disclosed to the media that he received lucrative offers from Olympique de Marseille and OGC Nice from France, from Russia, Turkey, 3 teams from Cyprus, and from a team in Greece for Asulin's services though nothing has ever come about from said offers.
Beitar Jerusalem
After winning the State Cup with Bnei Sakhnin, Asulin was signed on loan by Beitar Jerusalem. In June 2007, he signed for a four-year contract with Hapoel Tel Aviv. In January 2008 after a not so good time in Hapoel with a record of 0 league goal he signed for Apollon Limassol.
From 2009 to 2011 Lior played for Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Israeli Premier League.
Return to Liga Leumit
On August 17, 2011, he formalized his affiliation with Hapoel Ramat Gan, a Liga Leumit team. Asulin played a significant role in leading the team to a Leumit double victory, securing the Toto Cup and the league championship, which resulted in the team's progression to the Premier League. Additionally, during that season, Asulin held the rank of the club's highest goalscorer, with an overall tally of 14 goals across all competitions.
After being let go by Ramat Gan because of unsatisfactory behavior, he joined Hapoel Rishon LeZion under a new contract on 17 June 2012. On 4 December 2012 he helped the club win their first trophy when he scored a goal and a penalty in the 2012–13 Toto Cup Leumit finals.
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Death
On 7 October 2023, Asulin was attending a music festival in Re'im, when the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on the festival during the first day of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. He was among the more than 200 civilians killed during the attack.