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Give us more: First round summary in the Premier League Israel today

2019-12-11T12:11:02.359Z


Israeli soccer


One goalkeeper who simply refuses to let the ball cross the line, and goes into history books • Owners who have learned to think twice before being fired • An audience that carries its team to the championship, and then fights for a change of image • And: The root cause of the VAR era • Writers of "Israel Today" summarize the round First in the Premier League

  • Oliver Cannes? Daniel Tannenbaum!

    Photography:

    Alan Shaver

A phenomenon called Tannenbaum

If you ask you who are the best goalkeepers ever, you will probably blink without mentioning names like Peter Schmeichel, Oliver Cannes, Iker Cassias, Gigi Buffon, Fabian Bartez and many more. But none of them is on the exclusive roster to which Maccabi Maccabi Daniel Tenenbaum - the top ten goalkeepers with the longest run in history without absorption, has entered the final round.

The anonymous Jew from Brazil, who started in Kiryat Shalom as a third goalie and without the injury of Yaniotis was not the first goalkeeper of the champion, is currently ranked eighth in history with 1,263 minutes keeping a clean net. Next week he will be able to climb to third place at the expense of no other than Edwin van der Sar (1,311 minutes).

It is true that Tannenbaum has not yet provided a heroic game, but he has had a Pendel strike and big rescues against KH, and how we will not turn it around is an unusual phenomenon and an unimaginable climax. Even if in a month or two, Tannenbaum will make a mistake to drop him to the bench. Will continue to be a leading goalkeeper (and there is no reason not to), his achievement will be etched forever in the history books. Life also needs luck, but also being in the right place and at the right time, and there is no doubt that Tenenbaum was there throughout the first round.

Don't yell "there" even after me

Everyone who goes to the lots knows the well-known saying in the stands: "There is no shouting before Gul." So we are in a new era, the VAR era that perfected this sentence to "There is no shouting before the judge in the patrol car finished checking the move from every angle and gave it a kosher character."

A long and cumbersome trial, just as happened to our football - more than the world - in the first round of the season since the introduction of video judges. And it takes too long. A ball that sits on the white spot and waits for the entire board to decide whether it is Pendel or Pike; A game that continued to be played for a minute until suddenly stopped in favor of a mobile examination followed by a referee's examination.

There is no doubt that the goal is lofty - to minimize the errors of judgment, certainly in crucial steps and minutes. The problem is that this wonderful technology is still run by humans and not robots, with feelings and egos and thoughts on what will happen to them if they approve or cancel a gate.

It is also impossible to ignore the fact that the reference country is amateurish compared to the world when it comes to the number of cameras in the lot that does not allow a full snapshot for testing. Until franchisees are required to increase the number of cameras, it will not be possible to reduce the errors to zero, making the use of the system fast, efficient and smooth.

A move under review. Amateur reference compared to the world // Photo: Danny Maron

Work on patience muscles

Team owners have a lot more patience in the first round - only three coaches left their role in this round. Masai Dego was fired from Kashim City, Avitan tried from Tel Aviv and Uri Gutman resigned on the eve of the 12th cycle after the professional intervention of Chairman Oren Golan. Menachem Koretzky's departure for Raanana will already be in the second round books, but it seems that something has changed this season.

Team owners understand that replacing a coach costs money and will not necessarily produce better results. For example, Amir Turgeman remained in Ness Ziona despite only getting one win in 13 games and Eyal Segal lay on the fence for his coaches in Netanya Slobodan Drapich and it paid off.

In the first round last year, six coaches were fired / resigned en route to a precedent season in which 35 different coaches (!) Stood on the lines - an all-time record. It's hard to believe such a statistic will repeat this season, but our league can never commit.

Nisu Avitan comes to Raanana. One in three // Photo: Udi Citiat

Adolescents enjoy Teddy

Good Morning Betar Jerusalem fans. Remember the headlines this summer about Ali Mohammed's arrival? La Familia's problematic message? The calls against the opening coaching session? Moshe celebrates support and announcement considering leaving? There were ropes of birth, you can't ignore it, but The bottom line is that at the end of the first round, Mohammed is considered one of Teddy's favorite players today.

But the big story is not Ali Muhammad but the Betar audience, who grew older, changed for the better, realized that we had to accept the other, and for a year and a half there was not a single racist call from Teddy, which suddenly became a pleasant place for families as well. The big credit is to the audience and the club members who work Constantly on the subject.

True, the disgraceful incident after the game in Kash, in which a fan allegedly sent a threat to a celebrant's son, who even removed Eli Ohana from the dishes, did not help the reverberating image of the Jerusalem crowd, but everywhere there were weeds and the wall was condemned.

Grechkin and Mohammed. Ali is one of Teddy's favorite actors // Photo: Ginny Agency

The blow of pyrotechnics

Speaking of fans, it is impossible not to refer to the phenomenon of pyrotechnics in the stands that has gained momentum. Three times this season flares and smoke grenades were thrown out of the stadium at populated bidding (twice in YELLOW and once in Bloomfield) and only in the event of no one injured. Add to the derby events and realize that something bad is going on this season and the police must put an end to it.

Hapoel Tel Aviv fans show. Police must put an end to the phenomenon // Photo: Alan Shiber

Green Army campaigns

Maccabi Haifa fans took their team in the private car, buses and trains, all the way to the championship round in the first round. Sometimes they seem to enjoy traveling for hours on the road to the outdoor games rather than boarding a matron for Sammy Ofer. Until the match against Hapoel Hash in the last cycle, the green crowd averaged an amazing 8,300 viewers outside their home. There are only two teams - Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Hasham - who hold a higher average in their home games (!).

When the last game in the Negev is added, Haifa's average audience is still high in the league - more than 7,300 fans. The support from the targets is important, but it is clear that at the professional level, the group has also undergone a revolution. Marco confusion, who just a year ago received the Greens last place in the table, leads Maccabi Haifa to a championship fight after eight years of suffering and disappointments.

In Haifa's games, the most goals scored (39), an average of three per game, are the most conquered in the league, and in Carmel pray that nothing will fall apart along the way.

Maccabi Haifa fans. More than 7,300 foreign game fans // Photo: Alan Shiber

Source: israelhayom

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