Felix Naim

Felix Naim (Hebrew: פליקס נעים) is an Israeli football manager and former player who manages Hapoel Afula.

Felix Naim
פליקס נעים

Personal information
Date of birth	(1960-05-09) 9 May 1960 (age 65)
Place of birth	Haifa, Israel
Youth career
	HaTzair Haifa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Maccabi Neve Sha'anan
Managerial career
2006–2008	Hapoel Afula
2009	AEL Limassol (assistant manager)
2011	Hapoel Asi Gilboa
2011–2012	Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata
2012–2013	Hapoel Haifa (assistant manager)
2013–2016	Hapoel Kfar Saba
2016	Hapoel Petach Tikva
2017	Hapoel Kfar Saba
2017	Bnei Sakhnin
2019–	Hapoel Afula
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Naim was a handball player who played for Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin and for the Israel U-18 team. He turned into football when he was 18 years old when he started to play for HaTzair Haifa youth team and then moved to play for the senior side of Maccabi Neve Sha'anan, there he played with Eli Guttman. He moved to France there he played a bit in the fifth tier.^[1]

From 1997 til 2001 he worked as Guttman's scout, Naim was the one who brought Đovani Roso to play in Israel. Later on Naim stopped working for Guttman and decided to start his career as a manager in clubs from the lower divisions in Israel.

Honours

Hapoel Kfar Saba

• Liga Alef: 2013–14
• Liga Leumit runner-up : 2014–15