How Many Goals Make a One-Club Monument?
Omar Farhud's 502nd goal for Shimshon Kfar Kasem puts a number on loyalty that most clubs would need three players to match.
Is there a number that turns a career into a monument? For Omar Farhud, the answer is 502.
He has played 747 games for Shimshon Kfar Kasem, scored 502 goals, and never worn another club's shirt. The next three players on the club's all-time scoring list, combined, have fewer.
No Israel caps, no continental nights, no transfer saga. Just 19 seasons of turning up, and turning chances into goals.
His 502nd came in the 2062/63 season, a campaign that ended with him on 502 and the club still obscure. The milestone passed quietly, the way most of his goals have.
By the time he reached 500, the arithmetic had long stopped being a debate. One club, 747 games, 502 goals. The ratio works out to 0.67 goals a game, or roughly two goals every three appearances, sustained across two decades.
The number that matters now is not 502, but 747 minus 502. That is how many times he played without scoring, and still kept his place, and kept the club's faith. No one at Shimshon Kfar Kasem seems to have minded. They built the team around a man whose best skill was putting the ball in the net, and he repaid them with a figure that will outlast the ground's current stand.
He is 34 now, and his happiness is below 20. What he feels about the number, he has not said. But 502 is not a streak or a season. It is a career, and it belongs to one club alone.