Najwan Ghrayib (born January 30, 1974) is a Arab-Israeli former footballer, and was recently assistant manager of his hometown club - Maccabi Ahi Nazareth

Maccabi Ahi Nazareth

Maccabi Ahi Nazareth Football Club is an Israeli football club based in Nazareth. The club is currently in the Liga Leumit and plays at the Ilut Stadium in Ilut on the outskirts of the city.-History:...

. The manager at the time was John Gregory

John Gregory

John Charles Gregory is an English former footballer and currently works as a manager. He has previously managed: Portsmouth, Plymouth Argyle, Wycombe Wanderers, Aston Villa, Derby County, Queens Park Rangers, Maccabi Ahi Nazareth and F.C. Ashdod...

, his former boss at Aston Villa

Aston Villa F.C.

Aston Villa Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Witton, Birmingham. The club was founded in 1874 and have played at their current home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa were founder members of The Football League in 1888. They were also founder...

.

England

After a successful season at Hapoel Haifa, Ghrayib received interest from English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club Tottenham Hotspur and was set to join the team before his proposed transfer fell through. That is when Aston Villa decided to make a swoop for the left back after club scout Ross MacLaren

Ross MacLaren

Ross MacLaren, sometimes erroneously spelled McLaren, is a former football Defensive Central Midfielder and coach.-Playing career:...

 declared him to be the best left back he had ever seen. Aston Villa paid out £1 million for his transfer but Ghrayib saw very little first-team action and was sold to Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i side Hapoel Haifa for just £150K.

Honours

• Israeli Premier League (2):
  • 1998/99
    Liga Leumit 1998-99
    The 1998–99 Liga Leumit season began on 22 August 1998 and ended on 29 May 1999, with Hapoel Haifa winning their first championship title ever.That season had two rounds, each team played the other teams twice...
    
    , 2004/05

• State Cup
  Israel State Cup
  The State Cup , is a knockout cup competition in Israeli football, run by the Israeli Football Association.The State Cup was first held in 1927–28 as the Palestine Cup...
  
   (1):
  • 1994/95

• Toto Cup
  Toto Cup
  The Toto Cup is an association football tournament that exists separately in the two highest divisions in Israel: the Premier League and Liga Leumit....
  
   (1):
  • 2000/01

External links

• Stats