The intention to return from retirement ("makes preparations") • The desire to return to Khodorov ("Professional, of course I have a place") Would see red and "do in pants"
Da Silva today
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From a family album
If Hapoel Tel Aviv does not beat Maccabi Tel Aviv on Saturday, the Reds will close for seven consecutive years without a derby victory. At the beginning of the previous decade, the situation was reversed, and the absolute control of the derby games belonged to the red side.
It's hard to see Nir Klinger's side recording the surprise of the season against the champions, who have had more than 95% success rate since being appointed coach by coach Patrick Van Leven, .
"Maybe I should go back to Hapoel for them to win a derby, give some goal with a shot?"
De Silva opens the exclusive interview with "Israel Today" from his home in Brazil, in Hebrew of course.
"In our time, we were ready to lose the championship, but the main thing is that we win the derby," recalled the brakeman. "Maccabi were afraid to get 3 or 4 from us, like the fear that Hapoel has today. Maccabi would see us and do in pants. The players there understand what a derby is all about. "
For the past two years, the 37-year-old de Silva has not played football and has been involved in real estate. He has three Airbnb apartments on the island of Florianopolis: "You open the house and you are on the beach.
"For all the rich and great players - Neymar, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, they all have homes on this island."
Now Hapoel Hapoel reveals his intention to retire: "In 2019 I retired from football, I did not want to continue playing, but now I am making preparations for a comeback and I will return to playing football. I gained some weight and said 'enough, it does not fit'. I train hard to play here in Brazil "Probably in the regional league. I have a personal trainer that I work with every day, I have lost weight and I am preparing myself for the return."
Could you play for Hapoel today?
"Professionally it is clear that I can play for Hapoel today, but because of the people there I do not think I will return. If Walid Badir played with me in the Champions League when he was 37, then think of me as a rhino and with an athlete's body - I can play until age 42 if I "Obviously. I would like to return to Hapoel, even if they take me for six months and if I am good, they will continue with me, but it seems to me that it is impossible. Not because of football, because I do not know the management."
Four or five seasons ago Hapoel tried to bring you back.
"Right. When the offer from Hapoel came I was under a two year contract at Mlada Boleslav from the first league in the Czech Republic and the landlord was not willing to hear about it, even if they paid me money, because it is a small team and that season we ran up and ended up in fourth place and reached the Europa League. About the landlord, but that's what it was. "
How up to date are you with what's happening in practice?
"I do not watch games, but I follow the results. I saw that they defeated Netanya and advanced to the cup stage. I am in contact with Kobi Sidi and Gabi is short, and I have a friend like a brother, a guy named Nir, who is a big fan and we talk a lot. When I was in the Czech Republic I saw That Hapoel got five in the derby and I did not believe it. I called Kobi Sidi, I said to him 'how can this happen? How can you get five in the derby?'
If you are a less good team you will make a mess, kick players with your feet, make fouls, anything - but get five? In resuscitation Rebekah, I do not understand it. In my time, if Maccabi would draw against us they would run to celebrate with their crowd. I see Hapoel "Except last year all the time at the bottom, but it's probably because there is no money."
What's the biggest derby you've ever played?
"For me this is the first derby I played in and also scored in the 11th minute with a shot and we won 0: 1. I got an outstanding player that day and brought the TV I got to the farm man Eli Bueno, who is a rare person. There were many big derbies, there was also the 2: 4 "With me Schechter gave a double and I also scored - it was a game we had to give them a seven."
"Dangerous in Brazil, dead here in large quantities"
The interview with Da Silva lasts almost an hour and is entirely in Hebrew, which he learned in 2004 as a young and anonymous player at Hapoel Kfar Saba. The story of how he acquired Hebrew at an native level is amazing in itself and also testifies to the actor: "When I arrived in Israel I did not know English. 'Suddenly, I want to speak Hebrew.'
I would sit every day in the vegetable store of a guy named Oren in Kfar Saba.
After each workout I would come to him for two or three hours and ask him every question in the world - what is it?
how do you say?
That's how I started learning the language, in a vegetable store. "
Can teams in Israel bring the next Da Silva today?
"Today it's almost impossible. All the good players who have potential are already hanging out with agents at the age of 15 or 16 and asking for a lot of money for them. I got to KPS via tape at the time, there wasn't even a DVD yet, and Elisha Levy, who brought me to Israel and deserves it. Thanks for that, he brought me to the tests and then after one game I was signed. "
Did the Brad Bull Salzburg injury stop your career?
"I think so. I underwent knee surgery, did not play for 11 months and when I returned the team was not in good shape in the league and did not win six games. I joined the team and by the end of the season I did not leave it. That year I took a double with Salzburg and felt I was at the top again. A German coach and the first thing he did was throw all the Brazilians, and we were six. They paid me the whole contract for three years later - almost a million euros - even though I played in Brazil. I got a salary from both Salzburg and the team in Brazil. The money there does not bother them and they are very Honest. "
How much has Eli Guttman influenced your career?
"I went through a lot of coaches and for me Guttman was number one. His tactical discipline is no such thing. He was a very intelligent coach, he would learn a lot from the world, especially from Manchester United, and he would bring it to us and that's how we would play. See in the Champions League we played good football "In all the games - we won Benfica, we drew with Lyon and Schalke, and before that we dismantled Rapid. We played football that I do not know if there will be a team in the country that will play like this."
How did the corona hit Brazil?
"The situation is very bad. This week almost 2,500 people die here every day. I abducted Corona, but I did not feel anything. My 83-year-old grandfather also fell ill, but thank God nothing happened to him. The general situation in Brazil is very dangerous, people are dying here all the time. "The hospitals are blown up and it is impossible to enter. The businesses, the restaurants, everything is closed. Suddenly they open for a week and then close again for a period. The people here are in danger, in depression, in a serious mess."
What about vaccines?
"We are very, very weak when it comes to vaccines. Now we have reached ten million people and we are a country of 230 million. In our news we talk about vaccines in Israel. Our president is also on the inside."
Finally, what do you say about Eran Zehavi's success?
"Wow, he's a football star, but he's always been like that, he's always worked hard. I see his exiles in the videos all the time. I have a friend from Rotterdam and he tells me they fly for gold in the Netherlands, and he deserves it, he deserves it. He's a good person. And he has a good heart. "