1940 Mandatory Palestine v Lebanon football match

Mandatory Palestine scored in the second minute of the game, doubling their lead 10 minutes later with a penalty kick. Two more goals by the home side meant the first half ended 4-0. Mandatory Palestine’s forced substitution at half-time due to injury hampered their control. The players did not train for the game and, in the small dressing room, 14 received the light-blue-and-white kit.

About 1940 Mandatory Palestine v Lebanon football match in brief

Mandatory Palestine scored in the second minute of the game, doubling their lead 10 minutes later with a penalty kick. Two more goals by the home side meant the first half ended 4–0. Mandatory Palestine’s forced substitution at half-time due to injury hampered their control. Lebanese forward Camille Cordahi scored to become Lebanon’s first official international goalscorer. Werner Kaspi scored his second goal in the 60th minute, with the match ending 5–1. Lebanon’s next official game came 13 years later at the 1953 Pan Arab Games against Syria. In 1948 the Mandatory Palestine national team formally became the Israel national team. The game was watched by 10,000 spectators and ended in a 5-1 victory for the home team. It was the latter’s first international match, and the former’s last before they became theIsrael national team after 1948. The match was set for 27 April 1940 at the Maccabiah Stadium, located on the banks of the Yarkon River estuary in Tel Aviv.

The stadium was decorated with the flags of both nations, and around 10,.000 spectators came to watch, many of whom were British. The referee was John Blackwell of the British Army. The players did not train for the game and, in the small dressing room, 14 received the light-blue-and-white kit. The Mandatory Palestine players, mostly Jewish, were invited to tea and cake at a café on Rothschild Boulevard, where they were told that each player had to go to the locker room at the stadium on their own. The team’s coach, Egon Pollak, was spending time in Australia, and Armin Weiss, Maccabi Tel Aviv’s coach, was the acting coach of the match. The player Shalom Shalomzon was the only player to make another international appearance, playing for Israel in an unofficial friendly against the United States in 1948. He was assisted by Avrahamovitz in the 11th minute.

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