Shon Weissman

Shon Weissman
Weissman with Hapoel Acre in 2015
Personal information
Full name Shon Zalman Weissman[1]
Date of birth (1996-02-14) 14 February 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Haifa, Israel[2]
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Granada
Number 9
Youth career
2011–2016 Maccabi Haifa
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2019 Maccabi Haifa 37 (8)
2015–2016 → Hapoel Acre (loan) 18 (0)
2016–2017 → Maccabi Netanya (loan) 21 (12)
2017–2018 → Ironi Kiryat Shmona (loan) 27 (3)
2019–2020 Wolfsberger AC 31 (30)
2020–2023 Valladolid 85 (27)
2023 → Granada (loan) 13 (1)
2023– Granada 17 (2)
2024 → Salernitana (loan) 11 (1)
International career‡
2011–2012 Israel U16 11 (2)
2012–2013 Israel U17 13 (7)
2013 Israel U18 5 (4)
2013–2014 Israel U19 22 (2)
2017–2018 Israel U21 13 (3)
2019– Israel 33 (6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 November 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 November 2023

Shon Zalman Weissman[1] (or Sean,[3][4] Hebrew: שון זלמן וייסמן; born 14 February 1996) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a forward for Segunda División club Granada and the Israel national team.

An academy graduate of Israeli side Maccabi Haifa, Weissman made his senior debut for the club in 2014 before spending three seasons on loan with Israeli clubs Hapoel Acre, Maccabi Netanya, and Ironi Kiryat Shmona. In Maccabi Netanya, he enjoyed a particularly successful campaign which culminated in the club reaching promotion to the Israeli Premier League. In the 2019–20 season, while playing with Austrian side Wolfsberger AC, he became the club's first goalscorer in a European competition and was the Austrian Bundesliga's top scorer that season with 30 goals out of 31 matches.

Formerly an Israel youth international, Weissman represented the nation from under-17 level. He made his senior international debut in September 2019.

Early life and personal life

Weissman was born and raised in the neighbourhood of Kiryat Haim[5] of the city of Haifa, Israel,[6][2] to an Israeli family of Ashkenazi Jewish and Sephardi Jewish descent.[4] His parents divorced when he was 13, and he lived with his mother Varda and his younger brother Shoval.[7] His grandmother is a Holocaust survivor.[7] Weissman is observant and does not play football on the Jewish high holiday of Yom Kippur.[8][9] He was enlisted and has served in the Israeli Air Force to complete his mandatory military service.[5]

At the end of 2023 his opinions on the invasion of Gaza sparked vast outrage in Spain. [10]

He also holds Portuguese passport, on account of his Sephardi Jewish ancestors, which eases the move to certain European football leagues.[11][12]

On 22 May 2019, he married his Israeli girlfriend Eden (née Markovich), his highschool sweetheart.[7][13] Their first daughter Alma Leah Weissman was born in August 2020.[5]

Club career

Maccabi Haifa

Weissman started his career with Israeli hometown club, Maccabi Haifa. On 20 January 2014, 17-year-old Weissman made his senior debut in the Israeli Premier League match against Hapoel Be'er Sheva. He came off the bench in the 79th minute, replacing Ran Abukarat. He ended the season with 10 league appearances, while only appearing in two games in the following season.[citation needed]

2015–18: Loan spells

On 19 August 2015, Weissman signed for fellow Israeli Premier League club Hapoel Acre on a season-long loan from Maccabi Haifa. After scoring no goals in 18 appearances, the loan deal was cancelled in January 2016.

For the 2016–17 season, Weissman was sent on a season-long loan again, this time to second division club Maccabi Netanya. He managed to score 12 goals in 21 league appearances, helping Maccabi Netanya achieve promotion to the Israeli Premier League as they were crowned champions at the end of the season.

In the following season, Weissman made one appearance for Maccabi Haifa before being sent out on loan once again in August 2017, this time to fellow Premier League side Ironi Kiryat Shmona. In September 2017, in a league match against F.C. Ashdod, Weissman scored his first goal on the highest level of Israeli football in a 2–0 win for Ironi Kiryat Shmona. He made 26 league appearances for the club, scoring three times.

2018–19: Return to Maccabi Haifa

Following the expiration of his loan, Weissman returned to Maccabi Haifa. He made his first appearance in the season as a substitute in the league match against Maccabi Tel Aviv on 26 August, receiving a yellow card shortly after in a 0–2 loss.[14] A few days later, on 1 September, Weissman scored his first Maccabi Haifa goal when he netted in a 2–0 home win over F.C. Ashdod. He ended the season with eight goals in 25 league appearances.

Wolfsberger AC

On 20 June 2019, Weissman joined Austrian Football Bundesliga club Wolfsberger AC, signing a two-year contract and being handed shirt No. 9.[15] On 17 August, in the fourth round of the league, he scored four goals in a 5–0 home victory over SV Mattersburg.[16] Before the match, he had scored in three consecutive league appearances for the Carinthian club.

On 19 September 2019, Weissman scored the first goal in a 4–0 win over German club Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Europa League group stage, Wolfsberger AC's first European goal ever.[17] He finished the 2019–20 season with 30 league goals which made him the Austrian Bundesliga's top scorer.[18]

Valladolid

On 31 August 2020, Weissman signed with Spanish La Liga club Real Valladolid until 2024.[19] He became the most expensive signing in Real Valladolid's history at €4 million.[20] He scored his first goals in his ninth game for Valladolid, a 3–2 home win over CA Osasuna.[21]

After his first season ended in relegation, Weissman remained playing for Valladolid in the Segunda División. On 29 August 2021, he scored in a 2–0 win at CD Lugo before receiving a straight red card in the 38th minute.[22] Over September and October, he netted in four successive games to go top of the goalscoring charts.[23]

After one single season, his club Valladolid has managed to return to the top Spanish football division, the (2022–23) La Liga. On 5 September 2022, having recovered from a pre-season injury, he made his season debut in the 2022–23 La Liga during its fourth game week, coming on as a second half substitute for Real Valladolid and then scoring the winning goal in the 93rd minute against UD Almeria, earning his team a last-minute 1–0 home victory.[24][25]

Granada

On 31 January 2023, Weissman was loaned to Granada in the second Spanish division, until the end of the season, with an obligatory buyout clause of 3 million Euros in case of the club promotion back to the La Liga.[26][27]

On 5 February 2023, Weissman scored his first goal for Granada during his debut in the 4th minute of an away league match against Villarreal B that ended in a 2–0 victory.[28] In June, after the club's promotion to the first division, he was bought outright.

in October 2023 the player wrote on X (former twitter) “What is the logical reason why 200 tons of bombs have not already been dropped on Gaza?" and was reported to the Spanish authorities in Granada for incitement and provocation to violence.[10]

Loan to Salertinata

On 1 February 2024, Weismann moved to Salernitana in Italy on loan.[29]

International career

Weissman made his youth international level debut in 2011 for his native Israel.[30][31] From 2017 to 2018, he was part of the Israel U21 national team.[31]

Weissman made his senior debut with the Israel national team on 9 September 2019, in a UEFA Euro 2020 qualifier against Slovenia. He started the game and was substituted in the 61st minute.[32] He scored his first goal for the national team on 4 September 2021 against Austria in a 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers match, that ended in a 5–2 home win for Israel.[33]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 26 May 2024[30]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Maccabi Haifa 2013–14 Israeli Premier League 10 0 — — — 10 0
2014–15 Israeli Premier League 2 0 — — — 2 0
2017–18 Israeli Premier League 1 0 — — — 1 0
2018–19 Israeli Premier League 25 8 1 1 — — 26 9
Total 38 8 1 1 — — 39 9
Hapoel Acre (loan) 2015–16 Israeli Premier League 18 0 — — — 18 0
Maccabi Netanya (loan) 2016–17 Liga Leumit 21 12 1 0 — — 22 12
Kiryat Shmona (loan) 2017–18 Israeli Premier League 21 3 4 0 — 5 0 30 3
Wolfsberger AC 2019–20[34] Austrian Bundesliga 31 30 3 5 6 2 — 40 37
Valladolid 2020–21[35] La Liga 32 6 2 1 — — 34 7
2021–22[35] Segunda División 38 20 3 1 — — 41 21
2022–23[35] La Liga 15 1 2 1 — — 17 2
Total 85 27 7 3 — — 92 30
Granada (loan) 2022–23 Segunda División 13 1 0 0 — — 13 1
Granada 2023–24 La Liga 5 0 1 1 — — 6 1
Salernitana 2023–24 Serie A 11 1 0 0 — — 11 1
Career total 243 82 17 10 6 2 5 0 271 94

International

As of match played 21 November 2023[31]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Israel 2019 4 0
2020 7 0
2021 9 2
2022 5 2
2023 8 2
Total 33 6
Scores and results list Israel's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Weissman goal.[30][31]
List of international goals scored by Shon Weissman
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 4 September 2021 Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel  Austria 4–2 5–2 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
2 15 November 2021 Netanya Stadium, Netanya, Israel  Faroe Islands 2–0 3–2 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
3 2 June 2022 Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel  Iceland 2–2 2–2 2022–23 UEFA Nations League B
4 24 September 2022 Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel  Albania 1–0 2–1 2022–23 UEFA Nations League B
5 16 June 2023 Szusza Ferenc Stadion, Budapest, Hungary  Belarus 1–1 2–1 UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
6 18 November 2023 Szusza Ferenc Stadion, Budapest, Hungary   Switzerland 1–1 1–1 UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying

Honours

Maccabi Netanya

Granada

Individual

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