Arik Yanko is an Israel

Israel

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

i professional association football player and current under-19 international.

Playing career

Arik Yanko starting playing youth football with Hapoel Tel Aviv. As a youth team player, Yanko cracked four teeth during a derby match against Maccabi but played out the entire match. This endeared him to the youth team staff who saw the young goalkeeper as having a strong character.

Yanko made his league debut in a Premier League match against Maccabi Petah Tikva on 4 April 2009 when he replaced Ben Luz

Ben Luz

-Honours:*Israeli Premier League :**1994-95, 1995-96*Toto Cup :**1998-99, 2001–02-External links:* at National Football Teams...

 in the 80th minute after back up goalkeeper Yaniv Mizrahi was red carded. In October 2009, Yanko said that that moment was by far the most exciting moment of his career.

International career

In 2009, Yanko was selected to represent Israel at the 2009 Maccabiah Games

2009 Maccabiah Games

The 2009 Maccabiah Games were the 18th incarnation of the Maccabiah Games, being held in July 2009. According to the organizing committee these were the largest games held yet. On the 13th of July, more than 6,000 Jewish athletes from all over the world joined Team Israel's 3,000 participants at...

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Statistics

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|2009||rowspan="2"|Hapoel Tel Aviv||rowspan="2"|Ligat ha'Al||1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||1||0
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|2009–2010||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||1||0

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