Hatem Abd Elhamed

Hatem Abd Elhamed (or Elhamid, Arabic: حاتم عبد الحميد‎, Hebrew: חאתם עבד אלחמד‎; born 18 March 1991) is an Arab-Israeli professional footballer who plays as a defender for Hapoel Be'er Sheva and the Israel national team.

Club Career

Early career

Abd Hamed started playing football at the age of 16 in the youth teams of Bnei Sakhnin. He did this for two years, and he was transferred to Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2009. He played one season in the youth series. In the 2010/11 season, he signed a professional contract in his team Maccabi Tel Aviv FC. Abd Elhamed made his professional debut on 8 August 2010 in a Toto Cup match against his boyhood club, Bnei Sakhnin. On 1 February 2011, Abd Elhamid was loaned to Charleroi in Belgium. A month later, he made his league debut for Charleroi, coming on as a substitute for Ederson in the 73rd minute against Standard Liege on 12 March 2011. Charleroi had stipulated a purchase option, but did not purchase the player.

Ashdod

The next season, he was transferred to F.C. Ashdod, a team in the First Division. In his first season, he started 8 times in the basic team, and he was 15 times a substitute. In the following 2012–13 season, he became a regular player in the team. He was 20 times in the starting team and two times a substitute. On 6 January 2013, he scored his first professional goal at the age of 21. This game against Maccabi Haifa ended in a 4–1 defeat. In his third season (2013/14), he was 17 times in the starting team and four times a substitute.

In summer 2014, he started his fourth season at Ashdod. The first sixteen matches of the competition, he was 12 times on the field, of which 7 times in the basic team. Nevertheless, it was decided to send him on loan to the Romenian team Dinamo Bucharest.

His period on loan at the Romanian top team was his second passage outside Israel. He was directly selected for the first team in 13 of the last 17 matches, almost every time as a starting player. On