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Adi Stein

Israeli footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ16132816 ↗
Source-derived summary

Adi Stein (Hebrew: עדי שטיין) is a retired Israeli football midfielder and a football coach. Stein had played in the Israeli First League for ASA Tel Aviv, as well as in the NCAA with the West Texas A&M Buffaloes. She had played in the Champions League with Maccabi Haifa and ASA Tel Aviv. and was a member of the Israeli national team; she made her debut in the 2007 World Cup qualifying against Wales.

Club career

Stein started playing with the boys' team of F.C. Neve Yosef, before moving to play with Maccabi Haifa's women team at the age of 15. Stein played for Maccabi Haifa until the club had folded, winning the league and cup.

After Maccabi Haifa had folded, Stein moved to ASA Tel Aviv University, where she had played until 2012. Between 2006 and 2009, Stein attended West Texas A&M University, and played for the university's soccer team, while still playing for ASA Tel Aviv a few matches in each season. In December 2009 Stein returned to Israel and played in ASA Tel Aviv for the next four seasons, winning the Israeli championship in each season, as well as two cups. At the end of the 2012–13 season Stein retired from active football and moved to a coaching career, coaching girls' teams in Petah Tikva and Herzliya

International career

Stein made her international debut for Israel women's national football team in 2006 against Wales and played a total of 11 matches for the national team.

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“Adi Stein” enters the record as israeli footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stein, Israeli and footballer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2012, 2006, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-10-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Stein, Israeli and footballer.
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“Adi Stein” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Stein, Israeli and footballer provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16132816. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007, 2012, 2006 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Adi Stein” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.