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Najwan Ghrayib
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “former arab palestinian footballer with israeli citizenship”. Today it says “israeli former footballer and former manager of his hometown club maccabi ahi nazareth”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Arab-Israeli footballer (born 1974)”. It now reads “Israeli footballer (born 1974)”.
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Najwan Ghrayib ( , ; born January 30, 1974) is an Arab-Israeli former footballer, and former manager of his hometown club - Maccabi Ahi Nazareth .1 Between 2009 and 2010, he was the assistant manager at Maccabi Ahi Nazareth to John Gregory , his former boss at Aston Villa .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “former arab palestinian footballer with israeli citizenship”. Today it says “israeli former footballer and former manager of his hometown club maccabi ahi nazareth”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Arab-Israeli footballer (born 1974)”. It now reads “Israeli footballer (born 1974)”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
former arab palestinian footballer with israeli citizenship
Now
israeli former footballer and former manager of his hometown club maccabi ahi nazareth
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