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Between the Jordan and the sea: Shua's farce in Maccabi Haifa and the last chance in Betar

The coach ran away, the professional team did not connect and even Yaakov Shachar broke down after a long war.

In the season and a half, Jordan Shua and Maccabi Haifa made all the possible mistakes.

The feeling that they are looking for him, the training in which everything is broken and the understanding that a similar scenario in Betar Jerusalem may mark the end for him

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Shlomo Weiss

Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 10:00 p.m.

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In mid-December, Maccabi Haifa officially announced the addition of coach Yigal Hillel to the team.

Even if Carmel did not say this unequivocally, it was clear to everyone that Hillel had only one task: to solve the tangle called Jordan Shua.

Hillel's appointment did not come out of nowhere.

For several weeks, Shua's family put pressure on the club's leaders, especially President Yaakov Shachar, to appoint Hillel to Shua's personal coach. The source said in detail: "Eitan Schur, Bloomfield Stadium manager, is a good friend of Jordan's father, Moti Shua. "He told him that if there was anyone who needed to work with Jordan it would be Yigal Hillel. The father understood that this was probably what the child needed and insisted in front of Shahar that he bring it. That was it."

After a long campaign of persuasion, Shahar was persuaded and Hillel joined the club.

"Yankele and his son, Or Shachar, desperately wanted Shua to succeed at Maccabi Haifa," explains a source at the club. "They thought that Hillel's arrival might be what would solve the problems."

Maccabi Haifa hoped and believed, after all, Hillel worked with quite a few stars in Israeli football, some of whom were full of ego.

But Shua managed to break even him.

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"The Shahar family really wanted Shua to succeed at Maccabi Haifa" (Photo: Yossi Tzipkis)

The warning sign was placed immediately.

Hillel came to Kfar Galim for the first time, shook Shua's hand and watched the training with the goal of meeting the striker with four eyes at the end.

Training is over, but Shua is gone.

Hillel waited and waited, before it became clear to him that the player had already left the training complex, Hillel was still trying to get it but in vain.

Hillel thought that this might be a misunderstanding and had to set a date and place for others.

The two arranged to meet in Tel Aviv after a few days, but Shua did not come again.

In practice, the coach, who was added to the club just to help the rebellious striker, met with him only two or three times and after about 10 days informed the head of Maccabi Haifa that he was leaving.

A source close to the club's leaders says: "Of course no one declared that Yigal had left. It shocked everyone that after such a short time, whoever was supposed to save - raises his hands. Even then the system had to make a decision that water came to mind. When asked Yigal why He does not continue, he said simply: "Jordan does not believe that he needs mental help and it is impossible to help those who do not come prepared for the process."

This week, about 10 months after Hillel left, Shua ended his episode in the green uniform (unless there is a dramatic turnaround and a last-minute explosion in a deal with Betar Jerusalem) and moved to a team from the capital. Shua was part of Maccabi Haifa for a season and a half that included several moments Magic, but mostly disciplinary issues and murky relationships with people on the professional team.Just before Slobodan Drapic and Shai Barda try to produce sparks where Marco Belbul and Barak Bachar have failed, this is a small glimpse into Jordan's 19 months in the green.

The professional team did not like the approach of Shoa, who missed training on various and strange grounds (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Shua's start looked promising.

Yaakov Shachar and especially his son Or, really wanted the player in Kfar Galim and agreed to the most expensive deal in the history of the club.

1.2 million euros were paid to Bnei Yehuda for part of his card, and later the Greens transferred additional funds as part of the agreement to the Goldens, with Shua also receiving financial grants.

Moments after the signing, which Maccabi Haifa treated as a secret military operation, Yaakov Shachar was asked by one of his friends if he knew Shua's past and the president replied: "I know everything, we checked everything and we believe it is an important signing for the club's future."

Maccabi Haifa believed that the move to a big club would cause a positive change for the striker, who recorded a wonderful half-season in Bnei Yehuda and that he would use his talent even more, on the way to great success individually and as a team.

"Jordan really wanted to get to Maccabi Haifa," says one of his associates. "He really fought to get to the team. His agents presented him with offers from Europe, but he wanted to stay in the country and get to Maccabi Haifa. On trust. "

The excitement was great, but then came the disappointment that overshadowed her.

Shua received fewer minutes of play than he expected and hoped and the relationship between him and Marco Belbul and the English teammates, Paul Groves and Neil Clark, was murky.

Already in the first half of the striker's season in Kfar Galim, it was possible to understand where things were going.

Shua felt he was not getting respect from confusion and the coach did not like the attitude of the player, who more than once missed training on various and odd claims.

In the final round of that season, Shua scored a beautiful goal against Maccabi Netanya and it seemed that there might still be a turn in the plot, but the 2019/20 season was full of explosions.

If anyone wants to put their finger on the point where everything fell apart, then the days leading up to the game against Maccabi Tel Aviv in September 2019 are the place.

A few days before that away game, Shua was thrown out of training after a quarrel with Eid Habashi.

That training was particularly turbulent and was preceded by further clashes between players, some more serious than that between the striker and the brake.

Captain Neta Lavie was involved, an incident was also recorded between Yannick Wildshot and Marco Confusion, but the only one sent to an early shower was Shua.

"It broke Jordan," says a Premier League player who befriends the player, "he felt that no matter what everyone else did - in the end he only got worse with him."

Shua's sense grew over time, and on the other hand in the professional team, especially with Clark and Groves, there was a feeling that it was impossible for the player to stumble time and time again and still get opportunities.

Shua felt that only with him aggravated confusion (Photo: Berni Ardov)

The second climax in the complex relationship came in the game against Bnei Yehuda in January 2020. Before the match, according to sources close to the club's heads, Yaakov Shachar told the confusion coach that if there was an opportunity, he would be happy that Shua would get significant minutes of play.

The president did not interfere in professional decisions nor did he want to do so this time, but asked the coach to allow Shua to get more minutes if the development of the game would allow it.

The Greens led safely early on, but Shua came in only in the final minutes.

At the end of the day Shahar looked disappointed despite a 1: 3 victory and Shua raged in the locker room in behavior that led to a suspension.

"At this point in the team they had to put a stop. This is also what Marco felt," says a source close to the coach, "In practice, Marco felt that no matter what Jordan did and how he behaved - it ended in reprimand, and the routine continued."

The player felt that he was being harassed, the coach felt that he was receiving preferential treatment "from above" and the management of Maccabi Haifa felt in those days that they were between a rock and a hard place.

One day Shua's father also felt that it was more than enough and talked to the club leaders.

"My child may be problematic (the quote was originally much sharper, it is said), but if that is the case, release him and let him go," he said.

Shahar heard the things and did not give up, the club knows how to tell that apart from the professional and economic interest, the president feared that Shua would be lost if he was thrown out of the club and wanted to help him as much as possible.

Another story that could attest to the differences between Shahar’s will and Shua’s actions is national service.

Shua did not enlist in the army and could not play for the Israeli national team, but wanted to change that.

Maccabi Haifa contacted the businessman and fan of the team, Udi Angel, and it was agreed that the player would do national service at the Variety Association.

Angel even promised Shua and Shachar that he would do everything so that it would not hurt the training hours.

In the end, in Haifa they wanted to facilitate the player and arranged a closer service for him, as a tutor at the Kfar Galim boarding school.

But Shua has not fulfilled his duties and still cannot play for the team, which has caused quite a bit of criticism from people inside and outside the club.

In the end, the president also gave up.

Shahar with Shua (Photo: the official website of Maccabi Haifa)

With the end of confusion at the end of last season and the fact that Barak Bachar broadcast that he wanted Shua to stay, it seemed that something would change.

The club say the striker has changed phase and trained seriously, but after Nikita Rokavitsia and Charon Cherry were given priority over Shua, he asked to leave - now on a net professional background.

This time is no longer dawn fighting tooth and agreed to transfer Beitar Jerusalem particularly complex transaction that would be signed in the coming days.

"The bottom line is it was a match in which they were all wrong," says a person who accompanied the saga heed to any length, "it is clear that Jordan is the main culprit, but also A club that did not know whether to embrace or be rigid with it has a part.

Sometimes they hugged him too much and sometimes the attitude on the part of the staff was too harsh.

There was no uniform and synchronized line.

"After the many problems in Haifa, Shua has only one chance left and that is to succeed in Betar. Otherwise he will be on the downside and it will be difficult for him to get out of it and the truth?

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