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2020-01-14T12:23:21.545Z


Reef concludes, AA Coal works a day at the Football Statistics Analysis Society, and tonight (19:20) will try to pass another stage of the Israeli Football Cup


Rif Masika, a contact who operates Om El-Fahm, works at a soccer statistics analysis company. • He already has Maccabi Tel Aviv on the lawn, and tonight he will also try to oust Maccabi Haifa: "We can do it with heart and soul"

  • Masika celebrates at the expense of Maccabi Tel Aviv. Will you also celebrate tonight?

    Photo:

    Ami fat

At the age of 30, Reef realized that one had to think about the day after football. So he started working at the Statistics Society, where he watched football games and extracted significant data. Kind of an assistant coach, just in the statistics society. On the morning of the game against Maccabi Tel Aviv, he took time off, but in the evening he knocked the champ out at an amazing goal on the way to a crazy and historic 2: 3 in the National Cup.

"Everything drained into this game," he said in a conversation with "Israel Today," "I played behind the striker, a position that lesser coaches believe in. To this day they put me as an extremist, backhand, what not. The crowd was behind, Nir Berkovich was there and everything exploded. "In my peak season, nine goals, I stand out in every game and the record was in front of Tel Aviv - and naturally only talk about this game."

The amazing story here is that a semi-professional player working on another job sent home a team with a budget of NIS 120 million. Chances are that one season in Mitch Goldhaar's team would have set Messika, but that didn't happen, and so he went the way every normative person who is not a football player goes.

"I was born a girl, have obligations and begin to feel life," he says, "renting an apartment, the woman is not working because of childbirth, so I looked for another job. I was looking for something with interest, because I would not go to a construction worker or another Sisyphean job, and from there it came Besides, I went to study accounting at the open university for the day after. "

At this point, the obvious question was why not stay as a football coach, every day he watches video hours and analyzes statistics. The answer was unequivocal: "Leave me alone, football is a crazy house, never want to coach."

He will not forget the night after Maccabi Tel Aviv, like all the residents of Umm al-Fahm. "Closing roads, the whole city was fireworks and celebrations that no such thing," Masika recalls. "All the restaurants worked. We were eventually taken to a restaurant full of people. was happy".

Umm al-Fahm players celebrate huge victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv // Photo: Ami Shuman

This is Masika's second year in Umm al-Fahm. He enjoyed every moment and was prepared for a game against Maccabi Haifa. "If Sami Ofer's game had reached at least ten thousand people," he is convinced, "I have played in a lot of teams, but the passion that there is in Umm al-Fahm is something I did not know. It's madness. There is no such thing. "If we were to host Umm al-Fahm, then we had another eight league points today, and facing Maccabi Haifa could have been an unparalleled atmosphere in Israeli football."

And what are the expectations for tonight? A calm conclusion: "If we lose then everything is fine, everyone knows that we are better than any parameter. Their budget is more than 10 times, but our hearts and soul of the players will be more than the Maccabi Haifa players, and through this we can surprise and win the game."

About 3,000 spectators will fill the stadium in Afula tonight, 900 of them green. Haifa coach Marco Confusion will make some changes to the lineup. Afri Bronze will defend Trent Sainsbury on defense. In the front, confusion may give Mohammed Awad or Jordan a shoah, and the priority is right now. "We will not underestimate what we did to Maccabi Tel Aviv," Carmel made it clear, "We will come in a strong lineup and with all our strength."

Source: israelhayom

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