Daniel Peretz's success story is completely different from Daniel Tennenbaum's Cinderella story.
The young goalkeeper's starting point is much better, having passed all of Israel's youth teams, marked as great potential, but only now gaining recognition.
This is after the good performances he provided in the Conference League games, which arranged for the Yellows to participate in the playoffs today against Shakhtar Kargandi.
Peretz, Dan Glazer's cousin, has been training with Maccabi Tel Aviv's senior team for more than three years. And it's time to start polishing it.
At the age of 19, Peretz started joining the daughter group - Betar Tel Aviv / Bat Yam.
Last season he returned to Kiryat Shalom, but in light of the team's situation in the championship fight and the difficult lotteries it had in the cup, he did not even get crumbs.
More precisely, one appearance in the Toto Cup in an entire season.
As far as the goalkeeper is concerned, this situation could not have been repeated this season, so if he had not been counted, he might have considered going out for another loan.
But fortunately for Peretz, just as Daniel Tennenbaum grabbed with both hands the opportunity he was given to be the first goalkeeper when Andreas Janiotis made horrific appearances and was injured, he was bounced to the goal due to a back injury to Tennenbaum, who was also diagnosed positive for the corona virus.
"Daniel knew that if he did not take this opportunity, he could dry up on the bench as a second goalkeeper for another three years," says a Maccabi player, "and he took his opportunity in a big way."
In three of Maccabi's four games in the Conference League, the Yellows kept a clean sheet, much thanks to Peretz's good ability.
Tennenbaum.
Will pay the price ?,
Impress Willie
After the victory over Spartak Tarnava, the goalkeeper received compliments from the striker Tal Ben Haim, who said of him: "Daniel Peretz is the future goalkeeper of the Israeli team."
Believe it or not, Peretz's summons to the Israeli team is approaching by leaps and bounds, and he is only 21 years old.
National coach Willy Rotensteiner watched all of Peretz's last games, and was very impressed with the goalkeeping and confidence game presented by the goalkeeper, who went directly into his notebook.
In closed talks, the Austrian coach made it clear that he would consider summoning Peretz to the upcoming pair of games against the Faroe Islands and Austria, but it is not clear if this will happen, because the young team will need Peretz for no less important tasks.
The good footwork and reading moves did not come just like that, but thanks to hard work that lasted for years.
"From childhood I work on my foot game," Peretz said, "I saw where football is developing, that the goalkeeper should be like another player. I work on it every training session, do extra training and it pays off."
By the way, thanks to Peretz's great footwork, the young goalkeeper already has more goals in his short career than right-back Andre Geralds, who has never scored.
How did it happen?
When Peretz was loaned to Betar Tel Aviv, they decided to take advantage of his football and turned him into the team's penalty kicker, as Vincent Anima was at Hapoel Tel Aviv. The result is two league goals, which are, as mentioned, two more than Geralds.
Rotensteiner.
Will he invite Peretz to the upcoming national team break ?, Maor Elkelsi
Future value: 3 million euros
Apart from the leg game, Peretz, who rises to a height of 1.87 m, made tremendous progress in his height game and also improved his physicality.
Last week he was also first exposed to camera light.
"Is that what a press conference room looks like?" He asked when he first entered the conversation with the media, but he quickly realized that even on this pitch he had to deliver the goods and he did not hesitate to give the headline: "I aim to be the first goalkeeper of Maccabi Tel Aviv."
Players' agents estimate that if Peretz continues to receive credit as a first-choice goalkeeper and maintains stability throughout the season, he could quickly be worth three million euros.
But the question is: will Maccabi continue to let him play, or as soon as Tenenbaum returns, will she have to give minutes to her senior goalkeeper again in the last two years?
We'll have to wait and see.
"An excellent goalkeeper is developing here, without too much public relations," say those around the club, "they said we weakened this season in almost every position, at least we are not talking about the goalkeeper."
And today, in Kazakhstan, Peretz's goal will be to keep a clean sheet once again, on the way to perhaps his first appearances against slightly stronger teams, in the home stage of the Conference League.
Last week, Peretz was exposed to the light of the cameras.
"Is this what a press conference room looks like?" He asked in amazement when he first entered the conversation with the media, but did not hesitate to provide the headline: "Aiming to be the first goalkeeper of Maccabi Tel Aviv"