Final of the Under-19 European Championship in 2022, semifinals of the Under-20 World Cup in June and semifinals, for the moment, of the Under-21 European Championship in July. These are the results that Israel has achieved in the last twelve months. When all these achievements occur in such consecutive years, it is impossible for it to be a coincidence. In these calls there have been several that have coincided in Argentina, Hungary and Georgia. Revivo, Turgeman, Lemkin… and Gloukh, the great leader of this Under-21 team.
Oscar Gloukh (Rehovot, 2004) is the most special player in this group. A midfielder capable of making a difference through dribbling and passingand. In every match of this tournament he has been Israel’s most threatening player. Being a team with a clear lack of goal (they have only scored two goals in four games), he has provided assists in both. ANDThe first was a spectacular pass for Turgeman launching a counter and the second, with a lateral cross, showing off his great hitting.
It is not strange, therefore, the trajectory that he already has at his young age. After just 33 games in the Maccabi Tel Aviv first team, in which he scored 9 goals and provided 8 assists (he contributes a goal every 116 minutes), signed for RB Salzburg in January. The Austrian club, a constant factory of own and foreign talent, he paid 7 million euros for him. By then, he had already made his debut with the Absolute, with whom he has not missed a call since he went for the first time last November.
If youth tournaments serve to discover young people who will be the future of football, Gloukh has all the ballots to be the promise that becomes reality.