Maccabi Netanya announced today (Tuesday) the signing of left defender Florian Harthertz for the season with an option for another. The German first came to a few days of mutual impression in the team from Diamond City and finally as mentioned signed and will be the fifth player to join Bnei Lam’s team this summer after Gil Yitzhak, Erich Barko, Itamar Nitzan and Liran Rotman, and will take the place of Zlatan Shachovich sold to Partizan Belgrade.
The 29-year-old Hartharz played last season for Fortuna Düsseldorf and left the team at the end of his contract at the end of the current season. In the past he was a player for the young German national teams until the age of 20, but did not get to advance beyond that.
In his youth he played for Eintracht Frankfurt and Wolfsburg, but was part of their youth and reserve teams and the seniors got a chance from Werder Bremen who acquired him in August 2011. From Bremen he continued to Paderborn, moved to Arminia Bielefeld and Düsseldorf arrived in the summer of 2020 – last season The sub in Germany. He also has 20 Bundesliga appearances along the Kirya.