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The Israeli team will not play in the World Cup in Qatar in another year, but tonight's game in Vienna (Friday, 21:45) will have implications for how it will get out of the "Prater" tonight - standing on its feet or lying on its stomach, and this will have implications for future games and campaigns.
Relative to the fact that Israel is not an important or successful team on the continent, it produces a lot of noise in the sports media.
This is how it is when football is the leading industry here, but I am willing to guarantee that the Israeli media has reporters hoping that it will be beaten tonight, so that Willie Rotensteiner's contract will not be renewed.
It is perfectly legitimate to be a journalist who opposes the coach's professional agenda, but to turn his tenure here into an ongoing hunting trip for those who determine after every game that an era has ended, that Willy concluded, that "the association determined he will not continue". , Not to mention destructive, for those who do not know how to accept the rules of the game and prefer to break the tools at the expense of the interest of Israeli football.
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Rotensteiner is far from being a super coach, senior or excellent.
He has many known and well-known shortcomings, but for many of the media people - the national team coaches are an easy target, because the players, whom they also meet in the league, need to be protected and maintain a good relationship with them.
In parts of the media there are those who unfortunately trade in their excessive power to produce misinformation, and worse, unrealistic pike.
They tell us that if another coach comes, we will have a different team.
That is, there will be no other team.
A coach with a big name is not necessarily in every situation a guarantee of success.
Sven-Goran Erickson and Fabio Capello ruined the English and Russian teams, robbing the public coffers along the way, and it was Gareth Southgate, who received very little credit, who restored England to greatness after a generation.
Barak Bachar cannot split in two, and with the shortage in the coaching market, the association's correct attempt to build a work environment that will move away from the local swamp - must continue.
I wish we could bring a coach from Sweden or Denmark here, who would teach us football, because we also did not appreciate Richard Nielsen in the end and expelled him.
The Austrians have every reason to explode on us tonight after kidnapping a quintet in Sami Ofer, and settle accounts with their compatriot Rotensteiner.
Eran Zehavi and his friends have several goals today - one of them is to keep their coach's back from the evil woods.