2020 will be packed with the biggest and most exciting sporting events in the world • Israel Today's reporters have embarked on a journey among the many industries and returned with their hopes for the coming year and with an optimistic glimpse into the decade that begins today

• Liverpool hoist the European Cup. Already done?

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Here it comes | Boaz Bismuth

Everyone is convinced that the England Championship has been decided. Everyone - except me. Winner's mentality, which was the part of every Liverpool fan from the age of nine months to 99, became a tattooed loser in the soul. Where are those days when I knew for sure that Fidel Castro would win the Cuba and Liverpool elections at the England Championships? Those days were and are gone. The 18th championship was also the last.

We have been close ever since. Fish & Fries were already on the plate. The beer cup, too. Except a dark black cat came and ate the dish for us under the nose. A year ago, it was a point.

We were already in front of Manchester City with a promising difference, until the disgusting home draw facing Leicester. Earlier, the horrific nightmare, for generations, faced Chelsea, when someone really bad (probably a United fan) threw a banana peel on the grass just below Stephen Gerrard's leg. A few seasons earlier, we were content with the Christmas Championship again, as if we were Santa Claus followers, not because of religion but just because of color.

This year I am told that the gap is such that the business is finished. Don't buy it. The loser I've become doesn't even allow me to be optimistic. I treat Sheffield United in the fifth as if we were playing against Barcelona.

This year, it should only be OK because of one person: the man who changed the club, Jürgen Klopp, Germany's best ambassador of all time. He built a scary vehicle, which opposite Leicester reminded me of the Netherlands of 1974. Wait, so it ended in tears ... I told you, loser ... And what next?

So far, Liverpool has won three titles, which is very promising. Klopp built a machine that came forever in the series, and the long-eared trophy, obtained last year, came to make the change. It is true that the club already won the European Championship in 2005, but then she did not have Klopp and his amazing acting and acting method.

Jürgen Klopp allows himself to celebrate. Make the big change // Photo: AP

Presumably some players, especially Mana and Firmino, will get offers from other big empires, but Liverpool this season is simply electrifying, and with such an amazing crowd and huge Anfield, they would probably prefer to stay home. Liverpool players have a lot more to give.

Usually Liverpool is a group of a decade. Decades of the 70s, 80s and 90s. On paper, she has tremendous potential for the next decade to be her decade.

Give her a championship this year, which I think will be another opening. You can beat everything except tradition. Liverpool is a city of football, an audience from all over the world who is passionate about it, and today it is also the city of Klopp, but first and foremost is tradition.

The big question is: what are Liverpool's priorities - the England Championship or the European Championship? both. As dedicated fans, we will continue to allow her to give up the League Cup.

Between Abu Dhabi and Tokyo | Peter Palchik

The decade that ended was special to me. It was a decade of construction, in which I recorded many successes that I am proud of: medals in important competitions, bronze medals at the European Championships, and medals at the Grand Slam in Paris, which is considered one of the most prestigious in the judo industry.

If you ask me to choose the most exciting decade of the decade, it will surely be the winning of the gold medal in Grand Slam Abu Dhabi, which gave me the privilege of first waving the Israeli flag for the sounds of the national anthem on Arab country soil.

I do not forget that there were injuries, rehabilitation and burns as well. But these are not failures, they are losses from which I grow and rebuild myself. This is part of the way, it is impossible without it. Learn, learn lessons, get on your feet - and move on.

The year 2020 in Judo will open with the first competition in the World Round here, with us, in Tel Aviv, in what is going to be the largest Grand Prix in history in terms of the number of competitors.

Everyone wants to be here. It will be an amazing opportunity to compete again with the audience in our unique atmosphere. I will compete on Saturday, the last day of the tournament, and of course aim for great success.

I am entering the decade that is in awe for the Olympic Games next summer.

Palchik. "Dare to try, always give your best" // Photo: EV

The Tel Aviv Grand Prix will be the starting point for Tokyo - the goal for which I woke up every morning in recent years. This is the most important and greatest aspiration for every athlete and athlete on the Olympic roster.

The coming period will come to me with inner convergence, hard personal discipline, training, competitions, a lot of mental work and everything in between. All for one purpose - get ready, as far as possible, for the real thing. I intend to do my best to reach Tokyo at its peak and bring the greatest respect possible to the State of Israel.

In preparation for all these tasks, I would like to thank you, my readers and readers of "Israel today." I know you are behind, and it is important that you know that you are the fuel that motivated me to fight. The attention and love I get from you gives me a lot back.

Dare to try, always give your best and don't be afraid to fly for your dreams. I wish you a good civil year, and have an unforgettable Olympic year for all the delegation members coming to Tokyo.

America vs. the World | Use FLD

In the summer of 2020 - a total of just over six months - the world basketball team predicted competing for a senior international title, a second year in a row. The flowers for FIBA, which moved the World Championships to the last year so that the tournament does not fall on a World Cup year. The crowding with the Olympic tournament? Few. The fact that it hits both tournaments is not something that disturbs FIBA. For it to bother you you need healthy logic, not something out there in quantities.

Whoever can thank the organizers is the American team, because if there is one thing athletes want to do after an upsetting loss is to return to the field and erase the failure. Psychologists will also say it's part of trauma treatment. The U.S. seventh place in the last Mondovascat is the worst in its history, and one can expect the roster that Greg Popovich will take with him to Japan to include far more big names than the one disgraced in China - as part of an attempt to regain the remnant.

We were already in this movie. This is a circle with nothing to do with it. If the United States sends its best stars, it will win gold. Just like that. After a few tournaments, it gets boring, and then a less tight and sparkly roster loses its debut. It leads to a return to the best team, and then back.

Greg Popovich and US players. Will the last failure be erased? // Photo: AP

But even if LeBron, Kerry, Leonard, Anthony Davis, George, Harden, Lillard, Butler and Draymond Green - nine who have already mentioned the possibility of wanting to be in Tokyo 2020 - are really coming, and clearly securing the gold again, one thing can no longer be changed Never Again: The only way for the US to secure the first place is to ship the cream of the cream.

And what's next? If you look at the best players in the world from the age of 25 and under, you first see names like Antetokompo, Donchic, Embiid, Siakam, Yukich, Porzingis and Anthony Towns.

All of them pass over Americans like Mitchell (from the recent failure), Jaylen Brown and Tateum (they weren't good in China either), Tara Young the Gunner, the fragile Ingram, Booker, who is mostly a losing specialist, and Zayon Williamson, who has not played a minute of Pros.

So it's not the United States against the whole world, but the future of basketball is at most 50:50 American against the rest. That trend shouldn't change in the next decade either.

Back To | Jacob Meyer

In the year and a bit since arriving in Israel, Janis Spropoulos has restored his sanity to Maccabi Tel Aviv - and with it the odds of success. And positive energies, the current team outperforms the team that has harvested all possible titles.

There is no reason for the success not to continue. While the blows of injury and the procurement time of the players can slow the yellowing, especially in the Euroleague, Maccabi will cut the negative sequence in the first round, and in April will return to the quarterfinals after a four-season absence, qualifying for places 8-6.

The Yellows have already recorded some big wins this season, especially at home, and have proven that the heart of the squad of players that gathered this year at Yad Eliyahu can accomplish great things; But defeating Barcelona or Real Madrid in a series when the home stays in Spain seems, at least for now, like an impossible task.

Janis Spropoulos and the mascot. There is someone to trust // Photo: Alan Shaver

Sparopoulos and the club's leaders will settle for Europe's top eight and win the third consecutive Israeli Championship. Success in the current season will give the Greek coach most of the roster, and upgrade what is needed to make the team better for next season.

Also in January 2021, Maccabi Tel Aviv will arrive after a good first round, with a similar balance of victories as the current year.

And what's next? In the last two decades we have seen that the early years have a very important impact on the sequel. A positive opening will also have a positive impact on the years to come, mainly thanks to the fact that the club's leaders understood the importance of a senior coach to properly steer the ship. Even when Spropoulos leaves, they will look for someone in their right place and give up on the unsuccessful experiments we have seen in recent years.

And let's move on to the prediction: The Yellows will win a Euroleague once in the next decade, similar to the decade that closed, and reach the Final Four at least 4-3 times. In the domestic arena, they will lose fewer championships than in the past decade (5), also thanks to the cancellation of the Final Four method.