He educates the young, encourages the veterans and always makes sure he is happy • Itai Schechter's contribution to Maccabi Tel Aviv is far beyond goals, and yet, tonight against the striker Sibaspur will be happy to conquer and break in a four-year European form
Schechter and friends in the concluding training session in Turkey, last night
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Maccabi Tel Aviv, the official website
Itai Schechter's affair with Giorgos Donis began the opposite of what he had been a striker with his former coach Vladan Ivic.
While with the Serbian the striker is less counted at first, with the Greek he gets the credit in the squad in most games, and in those he opened on the bench he usually got significant minutes.
Tonight, against Sibaspur in the second round of the Europa League, Schechter will try to do something he has not been able to do in the last four years - score a goal in a European framework.
The last time he did this was somewhere in August 2016, when he played in the Betar Jerusalem uniform against the Latvian Yilgava. The season in question was also the last that the striker finished with a double-digit number of league goals (14). Being the formidable striker he used to be, he is still considered a kind of safe stock.
According to his dressing room, Schecter appreciate every second that he is playing a huge club like Maccabi Tel Aviv. In the summer, he knew this season could be his last Kiryat Shalom, and therefore agreed to cut more than 50% of his salary to sign a contract.
The winner does not build on 15-10 goals Shechter. for her is worth 8-6 goals in Serie a, just as he took the last two years, but his contribution beyond the numbers (and no, we're not talking about the clarity of the penalty area shrank VAR) very few players can deliver.
one of the reasons The fact that the Yellows left Schechter is to educate the younger generation and especially Elon Almog, who is supposed to be the next star the team brings to Europe. Schechter has a lot of personal conversations with the young players, tells them about his past experiences and instills motivation in them. To the players of the youth department.
"Schechter is one of our leaders," say Maccabi, where they say that even when the striker is not on the field, the players hear him well, encourage and encourage them from the bench. "he's an asset to the locker room," concluded yellow.
not only the players attached Shechter,
But also members of the management and other employees of the club.
Take, for example, former CEO Ben Mansford, who after moving to Blackpool admitted: "I will miss Schechter the most." If so, it is not surprising that there are those in the club who are sure that after Schechter retires he will get a role at the club. There are still time for those close to the player to believe that they will be in the Maccabi Netanya uniform,
at this time Schechter should continue to deliver the goods, whether as a car player or as a super-sub as he did against Petah Tikva and Bnei Yehuda in the league, especially when Blackman Get into things.
Tonight's goal in Turkey could put an end to Schechter's drought in Europe and also arrange for his team a prestigious and important victory.
