Ben Sahar
Sahar in 2012
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Ben Sahar | ||
| Date of birth | 10 August 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Holon, Israel | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Playing position | Winger / Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Hapoel Be'er Sheva | ||
| Number | 14 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2006 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2009 | Chelsea | 3 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Queens Park Rangers (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2008 | → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) | 12 | (3) |
| 2008 | → Portsmouth (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2009 | → De Graafschap (loan) | 16 | (5) |
| 2009–2012 | Espanyol | 22 | (1) |
| 2010–2011 | → Hapoel Tel Aviv (loan) | 30 | (16) |
| 2011–2012 | → Auxerre (loan) | 21 | (3) |
| 2012–2014 | Hertha BSC | 18 | (2) |
| 2013 | → Hertha BSC II | 7 | (3) |
| 2014 | → Arminia Bielefeld (loan) | 10 | (3) |
| 2014–2015 | Willem II | 33 | (7) |
| 2015– | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 40 | (19) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2005–2006 | Israel U17 | 6 | (5) |
| 2006 | Israel U18 | 1 | (0) |
| 2006–2010 | Israel U21 | 16 | (8) |
| 2007– | Israel | 33 | (6) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 December 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 February 2012 |
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Ben Sahar (Hebrew: בן שׂהר, changed his last name from סהר; born 10 August 1989) is an Israeli football striker who currently plays for Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Israeli Premier League.
At just 16, Sahar was already the equivalent of a second-year apprentice at Chelsea. He first caught Chelsea's eye in an Under-16 fixture against Ireland in 2004 and has since played for the Israeli Under-21 national team and the Israeli national team. Before transferring to Chelsea, Sahar was on the Hapoel Tel Aviv books, and while he was promoted to the first team by the manager Itzhak Shum, Sahar did not feature in any matches due to his transfer being completed before the start of the 2006–07 season.
Before coming to Chelsea, he got Polish citizenship (his mother Batya is of Polish origin), which grants him an automatic right to play in the UK, as Poland is an EU member state.
Sahar began playing football in his hometown of Modi'in, Israel. There, he was enrolled in the Sportop Football Academy, before joining the youth ranks of Hapoel Tel Aviv.
Sahar signed for Chelsea of the English Premier League in May 2006 from Hapoel Tel Aviv for £320,000, having previously spent a two-month period on trial at Stamford Bridge.
Sahar was called up to the Chelsea first team to play Macclesfield Town in the FA Cup on 6 January 2007, and made his debut coming on as a substitute for Salomon Kalou in the 76th minute. Four days later, Sahar came on as a substitute in the 60th minute of Chelsea's 1–1 draw with Wycombe Wanderers in the League Cup. He made his Premiership debut on 13 January 2007, coming off the bench to replace Arjen Robben in the 82nd minute of the match against Wigan Athletic. He later made two additional Premier League substitute appearances for the Blues that season, against Manchester United and Everton.
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