David Keltjens

David Keltjens
	Keltjens with Beitar Jerusalem in 2016
Personal information
Full name	David Yair Keltjens
Date of birth	11 June 1995
Place of birth	Mevaseret Zion, Israel
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back, defensive midfielder
Club information
Current team	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Number	3
Youth career
2006–2015	Beitar Jerusalem
Senior career*
Years	Team
2015–2019	Beitar Jerusalem
2019–	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
National team‡
2015–2016	Israel U-19
2016–2017	Israel U-21
2016–	Israel
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 February 2021; ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 December 2019

David Yair Keltjens (Hebrew: דוד יאיר קלטינס; born 11 June 1995) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as either a centre-back or as a defensive midfielder for Hapoel Be'er Sheva and the Israel national team.[1]

Early life

Keltjens was born in Mevaseret Zion, Israel, to a Jewish family of Dutch and Moroccan background.[2][3][4]

Keltjens played from the age 12 with Beitar Jerusalem Youth, playing his first match for the club with Beitar Jerusalem against Maccabi Tel Aviv, they won 4–2 on 26 October 2015, he assisted the first goal in the match, on his first appearances to Nikita Rukavytsya .

On 25 June 2019, he signed with Hapoel Be'er Sheva.[5]

In November 2016 he received his first call-up to the senior Israel squad for the match against Albania.[6]

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.