{"id":502279,"date":"2018-07-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/nimrod-levi-is-coming-back-to-maccabi-tel-aviv\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:16:23","slug":"nimrod-levi-is-coming-back-to-maccabi-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/nimrod-levi-is-coming-back-to-maccabi-tel-aviv\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimrod Levi is coming back to Maccabi Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-video-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lew22zmP7eU\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; \"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Nimrod Levi, one of the most impressive young players in last season&rsquo;s Israeli Super League, has signed a two year deal as he will return to wear the Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv yellow and Blue uniform. Levi (23,2.08) had a spectacular season with Ashdod who finished the regular season in the fourth place.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;I&rsquo;m very happy to come back to Maccabi, a club that I&rsquo;ve played for as a teenager and also in the first team&rdquo;, said <strong>Levi<\/strong> to Maccabi&rsquo;s official website. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m planning to seize this opportunity; I&rsquo;m in Tampa right now working out with a trainer and I&rsquo;m planning to come ready for this season that I can&rsquo;t wait for it to start, Yalla Maccabi&rdquo;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;We are very excited to have him in the roster, Nimrod made a big step forward during the season with Ashdod&rdquo;, said Coach <strong>Spahija<\/strong>,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">who also added: &ldquo;I hope that he&rsquo;ll continue to develop his potential in Maccabi&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p> \t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Levi grew up playing for Maccabi&rsquo;s youth department to which he arrived in 2013. In the 2014\/15 season he played for Ironi Ramat Gan due to the collaboration between Ramat Gan and Maccabi, the following year he was loaned to Hapoel Galil Elyon-Kiryat Shmona, he then moved to Maccabi Rishon LeZion from which he arrived back to Maccabi Tel Aviv (2016\/17) where he participated in 9 games.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The previous season was his breakout season, his great ability was rewarded by coach Greenberg with playing time, 21.9MPG in the regular season and 24.5MPG in the playoffs. He averaged 10.5P, 6.3R and 1.4S in the regular season, in the playoffs he averaged 9P, 6.8R, 2.3A and 1S.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Nimrod started in 7 out of 33 regular season games and he scored in double digits 15 times. His season high in scoring was 20 points, an achievement he reached three times during the season, against Maccabi he scored 14, 13 and 15 accordingly.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Nimrod is a young versatile and talented player who is joining coach Soahija&rsquo;s roster hungrier than ever, or in short, A Maccabist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"color:#0000cd;\"><\/span><\/span><em style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 205); font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color:#0000cd;\"><em>: <\/em><\/span>@nimlevi<\/em><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/levi20jd20169209801.jpg\" style=\"width: 980px; height: 551px;\" class=\"wp-image-502281 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/levi20jd20169209801.jpg 980w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/levi20jd20169209801-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/levi20jd20169209801-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young forward (23,2.08) that grew in the youth departments and blossomed last year in Ashdod has signed a two year deal with the club. Levi: \u201cI\u2019m planning to seize this opportunity\u201d. Coach Spahija: \u201dNimrod made a big step forward during the season\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-502279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502284,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502279\/revisions\/502284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502279"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=502279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}