Are there any prominent non-Israeli Jewish >footballers?
I can't think of any, unless you consider former USMT starter Jeff Agoos "prominent". I'll bet that there are a couple more in MLS. Former Galaxy DF Dan Calichman is Jewish.
Why are there so few?
Perhaps because only 1 in 500 persons or so in the world are Jewish??? About 80% of those are in either the US (hardly a factory for prominent soccer players), or Israel.
Considering this, the odds of having many prominent Jewish soccer players are not so high.
Victoria Barrett 7 March 2005 04:05:39 [ permanent link ]
On 6 Mar 2005 13:51:29 -0800, "Mark V." <markvanderv1@yahoo.com> wrote:>Considering this, the odds of having many prominent Jewish soccer>players are not so high.
This is neither here nor there, but Jeff Agoos is claimed by the Famous Jewish Athletes website I once visited.
And BTW, I once did a thread on the topic of Jewish footballers. Googlgeisyourfriend.
In article <1110145889.023088.80790@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, Mark V. graces us with a reply...> >Are there any prominent non-Israeli Jewish >footballers?>
I can't think of any, unless you consider former USMT starter Jeff> Agoos "prominent". I'll bet that there are a couple more in MLS.> Former Galaxy DF Dan Calichman is Jewish.>
Why are there so few?>
Perhaps because only 1 in 500 persons or so in the world are Jewish???> About 80% of those are in either the US (hardly a factory for prominent> soccer players), or Israel.>
Considering this, the odds of having many prominent Jewish soccer> players are not so high.
In article <1110229095.627369.294620@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Mark V. graces us with a reply...>
Robbie wrote:> > In article <1110145889.023088.80790@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,> Mark V.> > graces us with a reply...>
Dennis Wise may be Jewish.>
For reasons that may remain unbeknownst even to me, I laughed when I> read this.
I remember reading he was once and a friend of mine also with Wise as a surname is also Jewish. I think some Jews from eastern Europe renamed their surnames as close as possible to a 'traditional English' surname.
In article <1110313213.478323.187430@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, Mark V. graces us with a reply...>
Robbie wrote:> > In article <1110229095.627369.294620@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,> Mark V.> > graces us with a reply...> > >
Robbie wrote:> > > > In article> <1110145889.023088.80790@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,> > > Mark V.> > > > graces us with a reply...> > >
Dennis Wise may be Jewish.> > >
For reasons that may remain unbeknownst even to me, I laughed when> I> > > read this.> >
I remember reading he was once and a friend of mine also with Wise as> a> > surname is also Jewish. I think some Jews from eastern Europe renamed> their> > surnames as close as possible to a 'traditional English' surname.>
Weiss (White) to Wise?
Probably. The meaning of wise more than likey got the vote!
Victoria Barrett 27 April 2005 12:30:46 [ permanent link ]
On 26 Apr 2005 21:29:49 -0700, "Mark V." <markvanderv1@yahoo.com> wrote:>Juan Pablo Sorin, apparently.
Interesting! There's Jeff Agoos of course. Hmm, I can't think of any others really.
In other threads on the topic on RSS, someone though Dennis Wise might be Jewish, but it's important not to imagine all Jewish-"sounding" names are necessarily borne by Jewish people.
(As an example, in US baseball, the very Jewish-sounding David Eckstein, shortstop of the Cardinals, is not Jewish even by antecedence)
I also seem to recall a thread some years ago, which I started, called "Jewish managers". I remember RSS Oldtimer Daniel Windler talking about the ones in Argentina, which I found below.
