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2020-02-10T13:04:41.658Z


Beitar Jerusalem is confident that Shlomi Azulai is a star and hopes to explode in front of Maccabi Haifa tonight: "He lacks a dream for a dream season" Israeli football


The special relationship with Ronnie Levy ("really believes in him"), the crisis in front of the audience ("we marked him because Varan didn't play") and Benyon's demand ("to be worse") • Beitar Jerusalem is sure Shlomi Azulai is a star and hopes to explode in front of Maccabi Haifa tonight: "He lacks a pair or three for a dream season"

  • Azulay. The calls from the audience did not make any difference

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    Danny Maron

If you ask Betar Jerusalem fans what game they remember most about Azulay Shlomi this season, you will get the same answer - the 3: 1 loss to Maccabi Haifa in the previous round. The striker scored a fantastic goal in Sami Ofer, but later missed a tremendous opportunity to raise his team to a 1: 2 lead, That might have changed the story of the game.

In the summer, when Azulay returned to the second term in the capital - his first term was an unsuccessful loan season from Maccabi Haifa in 2014 - no one believed he would be the team's leading striker. The professional team also looked at other options, but they quickly realized that Azoulay was the most professionally correct man.

In light of the fact that Betar played regularly with two jets, such as Levi Garcia and Freddie Plomin, who cut the lines and less balls, or if you want less of the striker found in the plaza, such as Anthony and Eran, the immediate choice was to give the Azulai reins as a pioneer Play with the back to the goal, one that keeps the ball and gives territory to other players.

"Why didn't you celebrate with the audience?"
But there were other reasons. Home and garden officials say that at the beginning of the season, Varan would have lost a lot of training on various allegations of illness or minor injury. Professional manager Yossi Bennyon and coach Ronnie Levy felt that Warren was making assumptions and that they could only go on a battle with Azoulay, even though his first league goal scored only in October.

The Jerusalem audience did not know in real time why Azulai was given priority in the ensemble and frustrated him. "The fans marked him because Anthony didn't play," they explained in Jerusalem. Only the rift with the audience did not really affect Azulay's relationship with Varan, which was and remains very good until the latter left Hapoel.

Moreover, the screams from the audience did not affect Azulay too much, and the more he scored (6 goals in the league and 2 more in the Toto Cup) and cooked (4 goals that place him as the team's cooking king with Ali Mohammed), so the background noise from the show, which they defined at home. As the "herd phenomenon", they diminished.

After the victory in Turner's victory against Bash (0: 1) in December, the striker ran to celebrate with the players on the bench and not the fans. "Why didn't you want to celebrate with the crowd?" They asked him after the victory of coach Ronnie Levy and his assistant Haim Shabu, who thought that if Celebrate his gates with the audience The screams will disappear completely, but the striker replied: "There is a stage where because I whisper contempt I disconnect from everything and it does not bother me."

Good boy Tiberias
Betar says that during the least good Azulai period he stood by was Roni Levy, who even publicly complimented him when he said in the media: "He is among the three best Israeli pioneers in the country." By the way, Benyun also holds the same opinion. ", Admits a group member," Ronnie really believes in him. "

And no matter who you ask in your home and garden, everyone will say that Azulai is a soccer star, just not the star you think. It is a family man, a very introvert, one who will always be the first to volunteer for any social or community activity, and his salary is also far from being the highest in the group (about $ 130,000 a season). Good boy Tiberias.

This nonchalance may have helped him through the crisis in front of the audience, but in the same breath it may have hurt him as well. "You must be worse," he asked him several times in Neon, who, in conversations with club members, claimed that Azulai was the "smartest player in the team."

And when these are the compliments of the professionals, there are two obvious questions: What prevented Mazoulai from breaking into big time? And why doesn't he get the recognition he deserves? But just before answering these questions, we'll tell you about one of the Betar jokes about the striker: "How come you're only 30, haven't you played in the league for 20 years?" And yes, Azoulay has been here for more than a decade and still not branded as one of the top pioneers in Israel.

"Shlomi is a player of life, what he does with the ball in training is amazing," said a Betar official, and another added: "He's a huge talent, but he's underrated. It's a striker who can get you down to the defensive to extract a ball and an attack after knocking off a goal. Not only did he take a championship with Maccabi Haifa and Kashmiri.

What else has Azulai been doing to this day? "Because Shlomi has wandered in recent seasons between teams whose training level is not high, he has not raised himself in terms of physical abilities and pace," Betar believes, hoping the striker will explode tonight against Maccabi Haifa - the team opposite Azulay who scored the most goals in his career (9) - and they say: "Shlomi lacks some duo or threesome to make his season dream and he gets the credit he needs to get."

Source: israelhayom

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