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On the continuation of Yaakov Shachar's path after the Maccabi Haifa championship
The owner of Maccabi Haifa is back to being a winner thanks to his secret weapon - stability.
But after a decade with no exit stops, and with two contestants coming to stay, when will the 80-year-old president be able (and especially willing) to retire at the peak?
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Yaakov Shachar
Maccabi Haifa
Nir Kipnis
Friday, 04 June 2021, 14:30
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The happiest man at Maccabi Haifa's championship celebrations last night (Sunday) was Yaakov Shachar. After too long a break, the man is back to what he is: a winner, one who goes down to the grass and hands out championship plates to every player and club official seems the most natural thing for him, as if more than a decade has passed.
Shahar is not only the happiest man in Israel today, but also a key man for understanding the future of one of the most fascinating clubs in Israeli football in the last forty years, and perhaps also for understanding the future of football in Israel in general.
Beyond his managerial abilities and the ability to bring to the club he owns high budgets, in some years even very high, stability has always been the secret weapon of Yaakov Shachar.
There were groups of extravagant groups, more enthusiastic about it, but in the face of the whimsical conduct of owners who came and went: Lonnie Hercikovich, Ruby Shapira, Arkady Gaydamak and others, Shahar was - and remains - an island of stability.
His Maccabi Haifa could have lost the title, but no one had any doubt that it would be one of those who will fight for it next season as well.
It is not for nothing that the "big break" of the Greens came when its two competitors came, for the first time, owners who came to stay, in the form of Mitch Goldhaar and Alona Barkat.
The first is the interesting one between the two - and we will return to it immediately, but first as long as something about dawn.
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Island of stability.
Yaakov Shachar and the New Success (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
Shahar is already 80. Although on Sunday he seems to be able to lead Maccabi Haifa in ten years, but here we need to add another parameter to the equation: the relationship between Shahar and part of the green crowd. It should be said immediately - the crowd of Maccabi Haifa is fantastic, a crowd of families, of Jews and Arabs, a crowd that reaches thousands even for away games and rarely gets involved in violent incidents. It's just that on the fringes of this crowd, as in any club, there are also slightly less pleasant effects.
Everyone remembers Shahar leaving in a rage, actually removed from the stage, at the Cup celebrations in 2016, but his frictions with the audience began even before. Even in the last championships of the Greens in Kiryat Eliezer, there were occasional boos from the stands - which were not always crowded with spectators. When his Maccabi Haifa, on the way to the championship, with only 7,000 fans in the stands (about half of the contents of the old stadium), he was heard telling his associates, Basham, that he would buy Maccabi Tel Aviv, would fill the Ramat Gan stadium every Saturday.
There were moments when Shahar seemed to want to grope his way out, but Shahar is a winner, who will only retire at the peak - and the last decade has not provided him with exit stops.
It is not only age, but also exercise: Shahar knows that not everything depends on him.
Goldhaar's financial strength made the championship race something that was given, almost exclusively, to his decision.
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His financial resilience made the championship race something given, almost exclusively, to his decision.
Mitch Goldhaar (Photo: Bernie Ardov)
So true, Maccabi Haifa is not on the shelf yet, but after silencing the festivities, as the song's article, Shahar will start to think: The fullest stadium - not only in Israel but in the world (!) Was Maccabi Haifa's best sales promoter and he will deliver to Shahar, who arrived this year For heroism, I mean, an exit station that is unlikely to be better than the most stable figure in Israeli football in recent decades.
There will be a lot of talk in the coming days about what Maccabi Haifa needs to do, about the expected signings, about the continuation of the great Barak Bachar, about what Maccabi Tel Aviv will do in response to a season in which its blanket turned out to be short, but this time, more than ever, In the coming years is between the two ears of the most dominant man in him in the last forty years.
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