Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli football”. Today it says “israeli former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or winger”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli professional footballer”. It now reads “Israeli footballer (born 1985)”.
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Gil "Gili" Vermouth ( ; born 5 August 1985 in Kiryat Yam ) is an Israeli football player who plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv . Vermouth is Jewish, and was born in Kiryat Yam , Israel. Vermouth started his football career in Haifa and played until the age of 20 with the local Hapoel side. In a 2011 statistics about the highest proportion of dribbles completed per 90 minutes, in the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League season, Vermouth was ranked first with 75% from an average of 24 dribble attempts. On 28 May 2011 he signed a four-year contract with the German club 1. FC Kaiserslautern for a fee of €750,000. He was joined by his Hapoel team mate Itay Shechter who also signed with the club.1
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Gil Vermouth ( ; born August 5, 1985 in Haifa ) is an Israeli football (soccer) player contracted to Hapoel Tel Aviv in Israel. In Haifa, Vermouth started his football career and played until the age of 20 with the local Hapoel side. In March 2010 it was reported that English Premier League side Birmingham City were tracking Vermouth.
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Israeli professional footballer Gil "Gili" Vermouth ( ; born August 5, 1985) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Hapoel Haifa .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Israeli professional footballer Gil Vermouth ( ; born August 5, 1985) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or winger .
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Israeli footballer (born 1985) Gil Vermouth ( Hebrew : גיל "גילי" ורמוט ; born 5 August 1985) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or winger .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli football”. Today it says “israeli former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or winger”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli professional footballer”. It now reads “Israeli footballer (born 1985)”. Read the current article and compare.
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israeli football
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israeli former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or winger
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