Tvrtko Kale is a Croatian

Croats

Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

-Israel

Israel

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i football

Football (soccer)

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 player who played as of June 2010 for Hapoel Haifa. The newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija

Slobodna Dalmacija

Slobodna Dalmacija is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Split.The first issue of Slobodna Dalmacija was published on June 17, 1943 by Tito's Partisans in a cave on Mosor, a mountain near Split, which was occupied by the Italian army during that time. The paper was later published in various...

rated him the best player in the Croatian First League

Croatian First League

The Prva HNL , also known as 1. HNL or for sponsorship reasons the MAXtv Prva Liga, is the top Croatian football league competition, established in 1992. The winners qualify for the UEFA Champions League...

 in 2004.

Football career

He started his career at NK Lokomotiva

NK Lokomotiva

NK Lokomotiva is a Croatian football club based in Zagreb, currently competing in the Prva HNL, the country's top division. Founded originally as ŽŠK Victoria in 1914, the club's only period of success came in the late 1940s and early 1950s before spending most of the following five decades as...

 before moving to NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac

NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac

NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac is a Croatian football club based in the Novi Zagreb neighbourhood of the country's capital city of Zagreb. The team's fans are known as the "Black Warriors"...

 in 1994 and NK Čakovec

NK Cakovec

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 in 1995. From 1996 to 1998 he played for NK Inker

NK Inter Zaprešic

NK Inter Zaprešić is a Croatian football club based in Zaprešić, a town northwest of the capital Zagreb originally founded in 1929. They play in the Prva HNL after they were promoted from Druga HNL at the end of the 2006–07 season...

 moving around the Croatian league until signing with Hajduk Split in 2004. He was league champion with Hajduk in the 2004/2005 season. Starting in 2006, he played for Neuchâtel Xamax

Neuchâtel Xamax

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.

On 22 June 2007, Kale was transferred from Maccabi Tel Aviv to Israeli league champions Beitar Jerusalem

Beitar Jerusalem FC

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 for a price of $350,000 and a 2 year deal worth $300,000 per annum.

Kale moved to Hapoel Be'er Sheva

Hapoel Be'er Sheva

Hapoel Be'er Sheva Football Club is an Israeli football club based in Beersheba. The club is currently in the Israeli Premier League and plays home matches at the Vasermil Stadium.-History:...

 for the 2009-2010 season, and scored one goal for the club

Personal life

In an interview with Israel

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i sport portal, Sport 5

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, Tvrtko revealed that he is a Jew

Jews

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 according to Jewish law, since his grandmother on his mother's side was Jewish. In September 2007, Kale received a Teudat Zehut

Teudat Zehut

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. He is engaged to Ronit Dahan, who is Jewish. In June 2010 Kale decided to change his last name so it would be more Jewish due to his fothcoming wedding. His new name is Dreshler.

Honours

• Prva HNL (1):
  • 2004–05

• Croatian Supercup
  Croatian Supercup
  The Croatian Supercup is a football match between the winners of the Prva HNL and the Croatian Cup. The Supercup serves as a curtain raiser of the new football season and is only held when different clubs happen to win the two most important competitions during the previous season The Croatian...
  
   (1):
  • 2005

• Israeli Premier League (1):
  • 2007–08

• Israel 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...
  
   (2):
  • 2008, 2009

See also

• List of select Jewish football (association; soccer) players

External links

• Official website