Support from the locker room and fear of indictment • Maccabi Tel Aviv is facing the alleged sexual intercourse of the two players with minors

• Kiryat Shalom, yesterday

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  Gideon Markovich

1 The  Football League and Association Administration monitors developments around the affair that has been affecting the football world for the past two days, according to which two players of TAI have allegedly had sexual intercourse with minors. Israel Police.

Once the players' names are allowed for publication or if and when the criminal investigation becomes an indictment, they will consider in the administration and association how to respond. According to various estimates, if an indictment is actually filed against the players, they will consider the administration and the association to require the yellows to suspend the players if their group does not do so on its own initiative.

"There are many unclear and very gray things, such as whether or not they knew the girls were minor," a senior Israeli football official told Israel Today, "for this there is a police investigation, and if things turn out to be true Maccabi will have to release them for breach of contract. But right now the presumption of innocence stands in their favor and should not be slaughtered straight. "

2. Most Maccabi players stand alongside their locker room friends, especially after both players told them that the girls claimed to have crossed the age of 18 and allegedly used fake passports and IDs. The cast believes that "anyone could 'fall'" after the girls allegedly lied about their age.

Maccabi asked all players to try to disengage as much of the media as possible, so that things do not seep and hurt the team's preparations for the game against Hapoel on Monday. "If we lose to Bash we will know that maybe the whole affair hit us," they said yesterday in Kiryat Shalom.

3. Players from other teams in the Premier League, some even in connection with two episodes, believe it would have been better if the Maccabi management had taken the players on vacation at their home. "Maccabi's locker room now has an open grenade and it is impossible to know how it will impact," said a league player. "If a football player does not have his quiet, every team can be lost." 

Maccabi disagrees with this approach for the simple reason - if the club had decided to take the two away yesterday before the ban on advertising went into effect, the media would probably report their absence and people would understand who it was.

4. "we make decisions about players based on what come out of the police investigation," he said yesterday makes Maccabi, "now did not even know what will happen." The actors hired lawyers Adi Carmeli and Yinon Hyman, who represented them in the affair starting yesterday. 

So, at this stage, the Yellows should not think of any far-reaching consequences and wait to see what the police investigation will give them, but they face a small dilemma that they will have to solve during the weekend and it is - whether to include the players involved in the roster for the upcoming match against BS.

Given the sensitive situation the players are in, one can assume that their heads are not centered on football, so letting them play would be a very risky gamble for Vladimir Ivich. Conversely, if the two are not on the roster on Monday, people will be able to do one and another and understand who it is. 

Another option is that the two dress up for the match but will not play, and the final decision will be made by senior club members including owner Mitch Goldhar and coach Vladan Ivich. 

The players' attorneys said in response: "The two footballers did not commit any offense. We have unequivocal evidence to prove the version of our superiors, which we will present to the police in due course."