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Hili Trooper in an interview: "Maintain proportions, sports are the largest crowd in Israel"

The sports minister hopes the principal will approve the outline for returning the crowd to the pitches: "I wanted more but the area where the most people can be brought in is sports. The fans are already excited."

According to him, Netanyahu's meeting with the chairman of the association is "a campaign, not caring", and insists: "We put sports on its feet"

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Shlomo Weiss

Sunday, 07 March 2021, 18:00

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Tomorrow (Monday) the director of the football leagues will meet to discuss the outline of the Ministry of Sports and the Ministry of Health for the return of the crowd to the pitches.

The one who eagerly awaited the principal's decision is Sports Minister Hili Trooper, who expects the team leaders to approve the outline in order to receive approval for the next 5,000 fans in the playoffs.

Just before the meeting, Trooper took the opportunity to talk about the outline, the criticisms of the big centers, the affair of Atzili and Micha, as well as the struggle of his beloved team, Hapoel Jerusalem, in the national league.

Do you think it is also critical in the current outline to bring back the audience?

"Absolutely. It's true that I'm not completely satisfied with it, I wanted more - but let's put things in proportions. More than any other field. So I say the proportions should be accordingly. And secondly, the real way to increase the amount of audience is in a safe and responsible way. I say to groups - open and return the audience, until the audience comes back and proves we can meet this outline, it will be very difficult The Ministry of Health must increase our numbers. "

The owners of the groups claim that in the current outline they will collapse economically.

"I do not accept this. When it was not possible to bring in an audience, we kept their heads above water. To remind you, a precedent and dramatic thing happened this year. The State of Israel has never transferred such sums to privately owned groups. Look at some things in other areas collapsed, and we Of Corona without any group that collapsed economically. In the end groups are a private thing and we still held them. Second thing, all the costs of policing and ushers will be something we fund, and the groups know it, because we have set aside a few million shekels for it. "That way it will only go down in relative terms. That is, a team that would have brought in 10,000 fans and now can only bring in a thousand fans, will continue to get a safety net for 9,000 lost tickets."

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And if the groups do not agree, will you take sanctions?

"It's not sanctions but as it says in the agreement: if they do not agree, then we will deduct from the amount they get the relative share. And so they will get the amount less 750 (or 1,500) tickets that they could sell and chose not to. I tell the group owners - you can make "Happiness for 1,500-1,000 fans, why not do it? The basketball teams returned, and believe me all the basketball teams faced greater difficulties than that."

From what you hear, will the outline pass?

"I think so. I think the owners of the groups understand that these are more significant numbers. In the end, these numbers are the largest gathering today in the State of Israel. There is no other gathering in such numbers. It is no secret that I wanted more but it is still not a negligible number. Yesterday I was In the arena in Jerusalem and there were 300 fans, and there was a completely different atmosphere, so think what they will do. I saw the excitement in the audience and also in the actors. It is true that it is complex and you have to choose and think how to choose who will enter and who will not, but precisely because they see the financial back we give them And if we continue to give it to them, they will do it. "

Do you think the fans are waiting for this even in such small numbers?

"Before I sing I'm a fan first, and I can tell you yes. It was really exciting to be in the arena after a year of not being."

Is this outline and repetition your personal achievement?

"This is an achievement of the Ministry of Sports. But it is not an achievement, the achievement is broader. After a very difficult year that also affected sports, I do not beautify the situation, everyone carries scars from this year and Israeli sports - but those who look with open eyes will see sports is one area Who managed to stand this year. See the results in medals. Even when Ben Gurion Airport was closed, we took out and brought in foreigners.

There is no state budget and no plans have been issued because of this, but the facilities plan has been issued and that is an achievement. "

Encountered objections?

"There are always objections but I struggle and in my own way. I do not despise people personally, I do not spin out like impromptu press conferences, I work in offices, sit with the Ministry of Health and in the end we returned many times the sport to children and teenagers even before they went back to school "We increased the budgets per year without a budget, so at the end of a very difficult year - and no one is free from mistakes - we put the sport on its feet. The goal now is to have more and more audiences."

Last night we saw a press conference of the Prime Minister and other ministers with the head of the Football Association, we did not see the Minister of Sports. You do not think you should have been there?

"I was not invited. But I'm not excited about it. Have you seen any of those who were there say anything about sports during the year?"

You say you'm not excited but did not expect at least the association to require you to be there?

"I appreciate that Bibi Netanyahu has invited the chairman of the association, and when the prime minister calls you, you come. But I think sports fans are intelligent. They understand that what happened yesterday is a campaign and not caring. It has been a very difficult year in sports here and I have not heard a single word from them in any government meeting or in any discussion about sports. Two weeks before the election, they remembered that there were sports and fans here. Sports fans deserve those who think about them all year long and not those who see them only as potential voters for elections. "Is

sports interested in the top echelons of the Israeli government?

" I find it very interesting, but I would like it to interest everyone more. On the other hand, you see that we have managed to position sports in a strong place in Israeli society in the past year. The sport has always been one of the first to open after closures and sometimes did not even close. "

There were also criticisms that Israelis are" stuck "outside Israel and you land foreign athletes here, especially in the Grand Slam.

" I understood the criticisms in terms of visibility, but only in terms of visibility. Realized it was like comparing pears to apples. Although the outline of the Grand Slam brought athletes from abroad, they hardly met any Israelis because they were in a bubble. There were tests before they took off, when they landed and every day. They were in capsules, and we did not just finish the Grand Slam with great success without anyone sick. "It can be done right. But that's why I say most politicians were not here for the sport. They did not fight for the return of the sport and none of them said a word about the return of the crowd until last night."

But they will rightly come and say - what is he talking about? We confirmed all the things he talks about.

"What do you mean? Our summaries and wars have always been of the Ministry of Sports with the Ministry of Health. In the end it came to a cabinet meeting and they voted in favor and I really do not take it, in the end to make changes in every field and in sports need hard work, but in this matter I really I do not see politics. I invite anyone who can help me to bring back more audiences to come and work together. My goal is not to rake in likes or bring voters, I want to bring back the fans because we are in the same boat and I am a fan, and anyone who wants to work with me hard and not at press conferences - Hello".

Although you are only a year sports minister but if you were more would you work to dismantle the centers?

"I do not think there is a need to dismantle centers, I think there is a need to streamline work in both centers, associations and unions. I think today the centers are less involved in politics and more in sports and I would like to speed up these processes."

You went public at the time against Noble Omar and Dor Micha. Today when the case is closed out of innocence do you regret it?

"Even then I did not speak on the criminal level and said I was only talking on the value and public level. My story is not with Micah and Noble, I do not know them and I did not want to make them at all. There were girls who went through a terrible shaming campaign, and when there are girls - "He or his sister who caught so much fire and tore their souls - I do not stand aside and be silent. There are things bigger than football or sympathy for one team or another. Sheaming was unworthy and he was dangerous. In terms of values ​​I should have stood by the girls from the beginning."

And yet you praised Mitch Goldhaar for releasing them. Do you think there is a flawed taste in Yaakov Shachar's decision to attach the noble?

"I did not go in to judge owners for their actions. What I had to say I said and I say even now: there was a failure here in terms of values, and there was a shaming campaign here, and it was worth stopping it with the help of everyone."

Next year we will see you Teddy in the stands of Hapoel Jerusalem in the Premier League?

"We are seven disappointments but I very much hope. At the moment it looks good but let's wait until the end of the season, we are careful not to get hurt."

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