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Full name | Mordechai "Moti" Haim | ||
Date of birth | 1954 (age 69–70) | ||
Place of birth | Israel | ||
Youth career | |||
Maccabi Jaffa | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Maccabi Jaffa | |||
Maccabi Los Angeles | |||
Maccabi Jaffa | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Mordechai "Moti" Haim is a former Israeli footballer, musician and actor who played for Maccabi Jaffa and Maccabee Los Angeles.
Early life
Haim was born in 1954. He grew up on Jerusalem Boulevard in Jaffa, Israel. He started playing for Maccabi Jaffa's youth team at the age of 10.
Career
Haim started playing for Maccabi Jaffa's senior team and became a regular player. Highlights of his career include playing in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1977.
He completed military service with the Israel Defense Forces, where he was a drummer in an IDF band. He later joined the famous 'Tzadikov Choir' as a drummer, performing alongside Oshik Levi. After this, Haim moved to Maccabee Los Angeles, which was at that time a semi-professional team. After two years in LA, he returned to Israel and again played for Maccabi Jaffa.
Haim relocated to the United States permanently in 1980.
Haim was a member of a band, Rockinhaim, with his wife Donna and their three daughters. Their three daughters went on to form the band Haim. The couple later went into real estate together in Los Angeles.
In 2021, he made his acting debut in Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza, where he played the father of Alana, played by his own daughter Alana Haim.
Honours
- Israeli Premier League - Runner-up: 1976-1977
Filmography
Title | Year | Role |
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Licorice Pizza | 2021 | Moti |
Personal life
He is the father of Este Haim (b. 1986), Danielle Haim (b. 1989), and Alana Haim (b. 1991), who went on to form the Los Angeles-based pop rock band Haim. His maternal family is of Bulgarian-Jewish descent.
References
- http://www.nrg.co.il/online/47/ART2/438/762.html
- LAMONT, TOM (22 September 2013). "Haim: 'Dad would be like, Let's go and jam in the living room'". The Guardian.
- ^ "חיים שכאלה". NRG מעריב. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- "HAIM - The Under the Radar Cover Story". www.undertheradarmag.com.
- Chelin, Pamela (9 December 2013). "Meet Donna Haim, the Mother of Haim!".
- Licorice Pizza (2021) - IMDb, retrieved 2022-01-07
- PAUL, LESTER (14 February 2013). "Haim - the three sisters who are this year's pop sensation" – via The Jewish Chronicle.
- "The Haim Sisters on Their Crazy Year, Sexism in Music, and Why Women Should Dress Women". W Magazine.
- 1954 births
- Living people
- Jewish Israeli sportspeople
- Israeli men's footballers
- Maccabi Jaffa F.C. players
- Liga Leumit players
- Israeli people of Bulgarian-Jewish descent
- Israeli expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
- Israeli expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Haim (band) members
- 20th-century Israeli sportsmen