Gai Assulin
Assulin with Barcelona in 2009
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Gai Yigaal Assulin | ||
| Date of birth | 9 April 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Nahariya, Israel | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Winger / Attacking midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Sabadell | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1997–1999 | Hapoel Haifa | ||
| 1999–2003 | Beitar Nes Tubruk | ||
| 2003–2007 | Barcelona | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2007–2010 | Barcelona B | 67 | (13) |
| 2009–2010 | Barcelona | 0 | (0) |
| 2010–2012 | Manchester City | 0 | (0) |
| 2012 | → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 2012–2013 | Racing Santander | 25 | (3) |
| 2013–2014 | Granada | 0 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | → Hércules (loan) | 32 | (3) |
| 2014–2015 | Mallorca | 6 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 7 | (0) |
| 2016– | Sabadell | 7 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 2008–2013 | Israel U21 | 22 | (0) |
| 2008 | Israel | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 September 2016. |
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Gai Yigaal Assulin (Hebrew: גיא יגאל אסולין; born 9 April 1991) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays for Spanish club CE Sabadell FC as a winger or an attacking midfielder.
As a teenager, he was registered at Barcelona and Manchester City, but did not make a league appearance for either team. He subsequently became a journeyman, spending short spells at a variety of teams majorly in Spain and Israel and on once in England.
Assulin was capped 22 times by the Israel national under-21 team and once in 2008 by the senior team, becoming their youngest player of all-time.
Born in Nahariya, Assulin started his career in the football school of Hapoel Haifa. In 1999, at age seven, he moved to the Beitar Tubruk youth ranks. In 2003, when he was just 12, Shlomo Scharf, his team coach, proposed to Assulin's parents to consider taking their young prospect to try out for FC Barcelona, where he was accepted into the youth ranks.
In August 2007, Assulin graduated to the FC Barcelona B team, and was offered a new contract, a senior contract (a contract granted only after the player turns 16) for another three years and a €20 million buy-out clause. At the end of the 2007–08 season, Barcelona B won the league title with 83 points, and the manager, Pep Guardiola, was promoted to the job of senior team manager. Assulin was rumored to be one of the players that Guardiola would promote to the first team.
After missing most of the 2008–09 season due to injury, Assulin received an invitation to participate in pre-season matches with the Barcelona first team. He made his debut first-team start in a competitive match of the Copa del Rey against Cultural Leonesa on 28 October 2009, before being replaced by Éric Abidal after 56 minutes. Due to the lengthy 2009–10 season, many Barcelona players were given breaks towards the end of the year, so on 29 December 2009 Guardiola brought in Assulin and his teammates Víctor Vázquez, Thiago and Jonathan dos Santos.
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