1.
On Tuesday lost Mottele Spiegler replace Eran Zahavi at the top scorer of the Israeli team at all times.
Spiegler lost the debut, but Zahavi will probably no longer be able to achieve what Motlha has achieved to date exclusively - scoring a goal in the World Cup, in June 1970 in Mexico, against Sweden.
This week I called the team stopper in that game against Sweden, John Wallach, to ask him why we are so bad in the defensive game, and what can be done to change the situation. The same Wallach was replaced in the 51st minute of the game at the 70 'World Cup, in a 0-0 situation, after his foot was broken in a collision with Tom Thorson, who scored the goal for the Swedes. Mutla equalized three minutes later. "There has been a change in the nature of the defensive players since then," Wallach said honestly, "I was not really a player, but mostly a lumberjack, and like me there were many. .
If it had been up to Wallach, he would have returned to the era of Abraham Grant in the 2006 campaign. "I would play with seven or eight defensive players and two or three players who know how to play ball," he said.
I told him that his offer would not pass, because it did not suit the Israeli temperament.
The audience and the media will require a squad of players who know how to combine offensive attractiveness with the ability to defend and mentally withstand the pressure of an opposing team.
Wallach tries to be careful in his words.
"We do not have the physical strength to deal with European players," he says. "We have closed gaps in physicality. Look at Eli Desa, who works very seriously in the Netherlands. He has greatly improved his physical fitness, but he cannot close his physicality because he does not have the genetic data."
Wallach, 76, still plays Katargal once a week on the grounds of the Reali school in the Ahuza neighborhood of Haifa.
"Building a habitat for defensive players from the age of 10 is not unreasonable," he adds, "and all resources must be directed to it, otherwise there is no chance."
He recalled that in 1990 he returned to Israel from a few years in Hong Kong, attended the training of the youth team at Maccabi Haifa and saw a 16-year-old guy there. He immediately realized that he was a brake who understood interest.
"I told Shlomo Sharaf that he must raise him to the seniors. His name was Eric Benado. Age 16 It is too late, we need good coaches who will recognize the potential of these players. In today's Israel there is a great shortage of them."
Wallach is right.
Everyone wants to be Ronaldo, Messi or Eran Zehavi, but these kids need to understand that the lack of defensive players here can make them rich when they grow up.
Maybe without being so talented, but still with the ability to make it difficult for the great talents.
2.
This week we received an excellent example of how Hapoel Tel Aviv became an important and leading football club in Israeli football - a deteriorating brand with an embarrassing present and a vague future. contract.
Arbitration between football clubs and players is a common and accepted event; A way designed to shorten lengthy and arduous legal proceedings, which can slide into years of squabbling. The problem with Hapoel Tel Aviv is that breaches of contracts and agreements have become a pattern for her, which consistently destroys the club's reputation and makes any self-respecting player think twice before concluding with a team. Itzik and Sharon Nisnov, the sons of Nissan Nisnov, who decades ago was a kind of manager in the group and did not leave behind, to say the least, a serious management legacy.
When talking about patterns of disrespectful behavior and breach of contract, we should mention additional lawsuits that are on the table from players who played for Hapoel recently: Uriel Degani, the former captain, is demanding NIS 160,000;
Nir Lex is suing for 300,000;
Idan Cohen 200,000;
And goalkeeper Arik Janko, who left for Maccabi Petah Tikva, is demanding the salary differences between the two clubs. In short, Hapoel has built a bad name for itself as a club that promises and does not fulfill.
Back to Buzaglo.
The player is not satisfied with his victory in the arbitration and is interested in suing Hapoel Tel Aviv in a civil lawsuit for the club allegedly speeding up the end of his career. Here, in my opinion, Buzaglo went too far. - shows that because of his uncomplicated injuries that played on his body, and especially his knees, he was not in demand in the top teams and he had to compromise.
The fact that Hapoel Tel Aviv paid Buzaglo a high salary for her size (about $ 180,000 per season), even though she knew about his unimproved physical condition, indicates problematic judgment at the professional level, but this is not the issue this time. We will stay in the process.
Apart from a limited period of good management, with the Purple-Twins team with which Hapoel reached its peak achievements at the beginning of the millennium, unlike Maccabi Tel Aviv and certainly Maccabi Haifa, they have almost never been able to build a proper management model. The results speak for themselves For years, the last victim in the parade of folly was Omri Altman, the team's top scorer in recent years, who also got rid of him in a typical way.
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