Beram Kayal
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Beram Kayal | ||
| Date of birth | 2 May 1988 | ||
| Place of birth | Jadeidi, Israel | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Central Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Brighton & Hove Albion | ||
| Number | 7 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2006 | Maccabi Haifa | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2010 | Maccabi Haifa | 92 | (6) |
| 2010–2015 | Celtic | 86 | (2) |
| 2015– | Brighton & Hove Albion | 79 | (3) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2004–2005 | Israel U17 | 12 | (1) |
| 2006 | Israel U18 | 4 | (1) |
| 2005–2007 | Israel U19 | 23 | (7) |
| 2007–2010 | Israel U21 | 11 | (1) |
| 2008– | Israel | 30 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 April 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13 October 2015 |
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Beram Kayal (or Biram Keyal,Arabic: بيرم كيال, Hebrew: בירם כיאל; born 2 May 1988) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Brighton & Hove Albion and the Israel national team. An Arab citizen of Israel, he has been a full international since 2008, and has 26 senior caps.
Kayal joined Maccabi Haifa in 2002 and made his professional debut in 2006 at the age of 18. He made 124 appearances and scored eight goals before moving to Celtic in 2010. He has received plaudits from many Scottish football pundits and was named the SPL player of the month for January 2011. In January 2015, he joined Brighton.
Kayal started his career as a striker in the various Youth teams of Maccabi Haifa and scored many goals before taking on the role of a midfielder. Despite only being 16 years old at the time, he moved up to the Maccabi Haifa under-19 team for the 2004–05 campaign and excelled as part of the team that won a League and Cup double. Kayal was named the League's Outstanding Player.
He made his first-team debut for Maccabi Haifa at the end of the 2005–06 season in a 2–1 win over Maccabi Petah Tikva which sealed Maccabi's third League title in a row at the age of 17 making two appearances that season. In the 2006–07 season, he made six appearances in all competitions, but took on the role of captain of the under-19 team that won another League and Cup double. He scored a hat-trick in a league win against Beitar Jerusalem.
In the 2007–08 season Kayal became a first team regular featuring 36 times in the first-team. After that he became an integral part of the team and enjoyed success in subsequent seasons winning the Premier League and Toto Cup.
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