Tamir Cohen
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tamir Cohen | ||
| Date of birth | 4 March 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Tel Aviv, Israel | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2007 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 81 | (4) |
| 2007–2008 | Maccabi Netanya | 27 | (2) |
| 2008–2011 | Bolton Wanderers | 49 | (6) |
| 2011–2013 | Maccabi Haifa | 17 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | Hapoel Ra'anana | 21 | (4) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2001–2002 | Israel U19 | 14 | |
| 2003–2006 | Israel U21 | 12 | (3) |
| 2007–2011 | Israel | 21 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 May 2011. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 August 2008 |
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Tamir Cohen (Hebrew: תמיר כהן; born 4 March 1984 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli football midfielder. He is the son of the late Maccabi Tel Aviv and Rangers player Avi Cohen.
Cohen started his career in Maccabi Tel Aviv's youth team where in 2001–02 he won the double. His first game in the Israeli Premier League was in November 2002 during Maccabi's 1–0 win over Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv, when he came on as a substitute. He scored his first goal against Maccabi Petah Tikva in a 2–1 in the Toto Cup, where he scored the winning goal.
On 11 January 2007 Cohen moved to Maccabi Netanya.
On 1 January 2008 he transferred to English club Bolton Wanderers for a fee of £39,000. He made his Bolton debut in the 1–0 FA Cup defeat to Sheffield United, wearing the squad number 25, previously occupied by Abdoulaye Faye. His first Premiership goal was scored on 2 March 2008 in a match against his father's former club Liverpool at the Reebok stadium, which ended in a 3–1 win for Liverpool. The 25-year-old made 11 appearances in his first season in English football.
In the 2008/2009 campaign, Cohen played a peripheral role for Bolton Wanderers this campaign with a longstanding thigh injury keeping him out of action for over five months. The Israeli man eventually returned to the first team fold in the final couple of months of the season, earning his first start against Aston Villa at the Reebok Stadium on 25 April. Cohen stole all the headlines with a vibrant midfield performance and capped off the afternoon with a neatly taken equaliser to earn Bolton a vital point. He celebrated his goal by saluting his friends and family who were sat in the West Stand after he had been handed a 'lucky shekel' to put down his sock. Cohen expressed hope that his injury problems would be behind him and that Wanderers fans would see more of his footballing talents in the 2009/2010, saying "It's been very frustrating because it's not easy for a football player to be injured. But that is football and you need to live with that. Now hopefully I won't be out anymore while I'm with Bolton".
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