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Itzik Zohar: "Why do you want Rotensteiner? Because there is a good mood in the locker room?"

Crowns Barak Bachar as the best coach in the country, admits that he remains a macabre, disgusted by the contempt for Omri Caspi and explains why he did not turn to coaching: "I was not able to absorb curses for 90 minutes."

The former star was hosted on the "Double Team" podcast

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Yaniv Tuchman and Ahrela Weisberg

Friday, November 27, 2020, 12:00 p.m.

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Israeli football erupted this week following clashes between stars and coaches and journalists and commentators.

Nir Berkowitz was fired from Bnei Yehuda training after the incident with Liran Strauber, while Eran Zehavi and Moshe Primo quarreled on social media.

And when Itzik Zohar sees and hears these things, he is more complete than ever with his decision not to turn to the coaching profession.

"When you're an actor, you're just one of 11, and I chose not to be a coach either because they've been standing behind you and cursing you for 90 minutes, and I did not think I would be able to make that separation. I knew my character would not allow me to detach from emotion, and might take me to bad places. Zohar admitted in an interview with the "Double Team" podcast, recorded before the death of Diego Maradona.

Zohar said that "Big Brother is the hardest thing I've done in my career," and admitted that despite the breakup, "I am still treated like a Maccabist, and I really am. I do not want to run away from it. There is not a single time I pass the field in Kiryat Shalom, and do not look inside. "It is impossible to disengage from it. This is my childhood, this is who I am. I can not deny my identity."

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Zohar at Maccabi Tel Aviv (Photo: Ami Shumen)

Regarding the incidents with Hapoel Beer Sheva star Joshua, Zohar estimated that "until January he will no longer be in the team. What happens to him hurts Yossi Aboksis as coach, and will eventually destroy Beer Sheva. I also had quite a few incidents with players during my career. "But I never put myself in front of the group. There were dominant Israelis who always lowered me to the ground, and today there is no such figure that foreigners respect and take into account."

And who, in his eyes, is the number one coach in Israel?

His answer is clear and unequivocal: "Barak Bachar. Precisely in the week when Maccabi Haifa's so cold 'crashes', you see the way he has gone since he coached in Kiryat Shmona. Beyond his personal ability and understanding of football, he knows how to choose the right people to surround him."

He also has a solid opinion about the next coach of the Israeli team: "I really do not connect with Willy Rotensteiner. Why do you want him to stay? Because there is a good mood in the locker room? Because I think Eyal Berkowitz should coach the team. What is needed is a manager, not "A coach, therefore, needs a past player who knows how to speak the same language with the players. He is currently in the momentum that everything is going well for him in life."

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