He does not have a pro certificate, he has never coached in the Premier League and his team has a low breaking threshold. • This does not scare Gal Cohen, who wants to change the approach in Hapoel Ra'anana and save her from a league drop. "The situation is not irreversible," he promised the players.

• Cohen. Transmitting optimism

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The effect of a coach exchange is almost always felt in the first game the team has made the change. Hapoel Raanana's new coach, Gal Cohen, hopes these statistics work in his favor too, so his team doesn't deepen its entanglement at the bottom of the league at the end of the 25th cycle

Cohen, 37, is a man of the system. This season he served as assistant to Menachem Koretzky and then Nisso Avitan, and now received the keys in an attempt to save Raanana from a league drop. This move isn't obvious given Cohen's inexperience as a Premier League coach, but unlike any coach who comes to Raanana, Cohen lives and breathes it, and not just this season. One of his advantages, which helped him get the job, is the fact that until last year Raanana's youth coach was, and on the alumni roster there are seven players who were youth players, and some of them have already become car players.

With Avitan tried. Plant in Ra'anana // Photo: Alan Shiber

During his six days as head coach of the team, Gal Cohen worked with the players mainly on the mental side. In a motivational speech to the players, he said: "The situation is not irreversible. I want you to remember this point that we are in now, because I know we will end this season successfully in the league and in the Cup. Defeated. It is precisely during such difficult moments that you grow and grow as an athlete and as a human being. "

Only this motivational speech alone wasn't enough. Toward the end of the weekend, he invited players to a coffee shop, where he made personal calls to them and tried to instill in each of them the belief that they could remain in the Premier League. He also met separately with the professional team, with which Roy Shahaf joined, who was his assistant in youth and also now assistant coach.

"Gal tried all week to raise everyone to the cause," says Ra'anana. "Our breakout threshold this season is the lowest there is, and Gal realized that you can't think that everything is dark and decided to change energy and belief. When Epsnai throws a good word to the player and when the team gives players strengths, Something and just have to believe it can be done. "

Witnesses. The group from Sharon presents a low breaking threshold // Photo: Alan Shiber

Cohen does not have a pro certificate, so that by law he can stand on the lines in just a month. However, in Raanana, they have already discussed the matter with Willie Rothensteiner, who is responsible for the pro course that Cohen is supposed to enter. As far as the professional manager of the teams is concerned, it is possible to let Cohen continue to coach the team as long as he is on the course, as if he is in a internship, but this issue has not yet been resolved.

In any case, Cohen will today, in front of Bnei Yehuda, try to get his team out of the mud, just before the ship goes down, and will have to do so without striker Yoav Tomer.