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COURTESY OF JONATHAN SZANTO

Hungarian hockey 

player Jonathan 

Szanto says he’
s 

looking forward 

to “experiencing 

U.S. hockey” at the 

Maccabi Games.

in the Maccabi Games.
She said she learned about the 
Maccabi Games last year from friends 
who competed for Detroit in Orange 
County in baseball and volleyball. She 
thought playing hockey, her favorite 
sport, in Detroit would be a great 
experience.
“I can’
t wait to meet kids from 
around the world and watch my 
friends compete,
” she said.
Leib played hockey for Detroit last 
year in Orange County, helping Detroit 
reach the quarterfinals in the 11-team 
tournament.

FREDDIE MARTIN
Freddie Martin lives in a quiet, small 
residential village “with loads of 
open green land” on the outskirts of 
London, England. It’
s a 
predominantly Jewish 
community.
The 14-year-old is a 
big soccer fan. Or, as he 
would say, football fan.
His favorite soc-
cer team is Premier 
League club Tottenham 
Hotspur. His favorite soccer player is 
Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Son 
Heung-min.
Martin is a member of the Great 
Britain U16 boys soccer team that will 
play in the Maccabi Games.
“I can’
t wait to get to Detroit, meet 
new people and hopefully bring gold 
back to the U.K.,
” he said.
Martin competed in soccer in last 
year’
s Maccabi Games in Orange 
County. His team lost 2-1 in the 
knockout round.

“The best part of that trip was our 
team defying expectations and making 
our managers proud,
” he said. “We 
won three of our first four games.
”
His parents are Andy Martin and 
Belinda Spiers. He has two older sis-
ters, Georgia, 21, and Jaimie, 18.
His favorite food? Steak.

JONATHAN SZANTO
Hungarian hockey player Jonathan 
Szanto is looking forward to partic-
ipating in his first Maccabi Games, 
“making new friends, 
seeing how American 
Jews live, exploring 
Detroit and experienc-
ing U.S. hockey, which 
is known as the best in 
the world.
”
The 14-year-old 
lives with his family in 
Budapest, the capital of Hungary and 
the city where most of the 100,000 
Jews in the country reside.
“If you travel to Europe, you 
shouldn’
t miss Budapest,
” he said. 
“There are many historical sites to 
visit. There even are Turkish baths 
from the Turkish occupation of the 
city (in the 16th and 17th centuries).
”
His father, Peter, is an entrepreneur, 
and his mother, Adrienn, works with 
the Chabad organization. He has an 
older brother and a younger sister.
Jonathan is a big fan of Washington 
Capitals hockey star Alexander 
Ovechkin, wiener schnitzel, steak, 
traveling and mathematics. He’
s 
played in hockey tournaments in 
Canada, Austria and Germany with his 
Hungarian team. ■

Freddie Martin

Jonathan 

Szanto

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