5 seasons ago he broke the mental barrier of Hapoel B'Shlosha against Maccabi Tel Aviv and led it to the championships • Now Barak Bachar needs to go back and break that barrier, as the coach of Maccabi Haifa
Barak Bachar.
10 years have been waiting for him
Photography:
Alan Shiver
In the months between the departure of Hapoel B'Shlosha and the signing of Maccabi Haifa, Barak Bachar (41) had time to give soldiers and commanders in the IDF lectures on excellence, mental work and some stories from the locker room he conducted in the Negev capital on his way to winning three championships.
In this lecture, Bachar talks about the "mental barrier" that had to be broken in the WC to bring the players to the belief that it is possible to win the championship, and no less important: to beat Maccabi Tel Aviv on the way.
Today he experiences exactly the same situation, as the coach of Maccabi Haifa.
He came to Bloomfield with the same number of points as the Yellows and came back with 1: 2. Today, on the lines of the Greens, the gap at the top of the league stands at eight points in his favor. "The gap from Maccabi Tel Aviv was then mental," recalled one of his players in " Q, "Barak and the team did a lot of meetings for us.
"They would show us a video of our families and children, saying how much they love us and believe in us - until we finally broke the glass ceiling."
So far, Bachar has not given an extraordinary lecture to Maccabi Haifa players.
It may still happen until the season game against Maccabi Tel Aviv on Wednesday, but the Greens are in a very complex mental state against their sworn rival. Haifa leads the table, something that has not happened to the Greens at such an advanced stage of the season since the last time they won the championship a decade ago. The balance of power has changed since 2012. Maccabi Tel Aviv has taken over Israeli football, and its balance in the league against the Greens has since been 30 victories against only one of Haifa.
It is a given that in Haifa they will have to break if they want to make another leap, and the club also admits that.
And that brings the discourse back to the man who is supposed to break the mental barrier for the players.
True, this is coach Barak Bachar.
He did not reach the mission alone.
He is accompanied by the mental coaches Eitan Azaria and Danny Inbar, who also worked with him at the BS. A few months ago, Bachar lectured to senior officers about breaking these mental barriers.
The IDF also believes in its path
M., Lt. Col. in the IDF, told about the message and what it did to even the most senior members of the largest body in the State of Israel. "The IDF has quite a few people who are top in terms of their ability to analyze information, a group of excellence "," He explains, "it's the same thing in football. When you see how Bachar took a locker room that has a lot of ego, neutralized power struggles and made them stand as one team in front of the goal, in this case defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv - so that's how he succeeded.
This is the mental barrier. "
In conclusion, M. told" Israel Today "about his and his officers' personal experience in the lecture:" If we accept this to the army, we can take a very complex issue, with the best human material there is, and then bring them together to succeed. The mission.
Otherwise, it will be impossible. "
On Wednesday, Bachar and his players will have another chance to beat the Yellows. The last time this happened was when Maccabi Tel Aviv hosted in Netanya (October 2016).
When was the last win at Bloomfield?
To do this, we have to go back to May 2011, when a pair of Tomer Hemed brought a prestigious foreign victory.
Who will be able to do this this time?