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The Diamond: Gabi Knikowski returns to Bloomfield from the front door
6 years after the goal he scored for Maccabi Tel Aviv's youth team in the Champions League, the connection will return to the Yellows' stadium tonight in a game against Maccabi Petah Tikva (19:30, Sport 3).
The decision to loan and sell him, the years in Netanya and the excitement among the fans in yellow, who want to see him lead the club to the championship
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Gabi Knikowski
Yaniv Tuchman
Saturday, September 11, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
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Regarding Kanikovsky, there were every reason to believe that his track would be directly from the youth of Maccabi Tel Aviv for graduates. No intermediaries, no questions, no tests and follow-ups. With Hapoel Jerusalem coach Ziv Arieh, who coached him in the youth team of Maccabi Tel Aviv six years ago, Kanikovsky scored the goal in the Champions League in the 2015/16 season at the same time as the seniors who played under Slavisha Yukanovich in the same factory. Kanikovsky allowed against Dynamo Kiev and looked good, but in that Maccabi Tel Aviv, which after the treble of Paco Eastern and the participation in the prestigious factory of Europe, who thought of the younger generation? Even the loan project for Betar Tel Aviv Ramla was in its infancy. Kanikovsky spent the same season in the youth, with one appearance in the seniors exactly 6 years ago in the Toto Cup against Bnei Yehuda only to give rest to the first and second team, and at the end he was loaned to Hapoel Petah Tikva from Leumit. This is not what Jordi Cruyff told in the summer of 2017,He agreed to give Hapoel Acre an option to purchase Kanikovsky for NIS 350,000 after the loan season in the north. Hapoel Acre was his first team in the Premier League and in 33 appearances Kanikovsky scored 6 goals. At the age of 21, with a resume of almost two years without losing a game at Hapoel Petah Tikva and Hapoel Acre, Kanikovsky was bought by Acre and was quickly sold from it to Maccabi Netanya, coached by Slobodan Drapich and Shai Barda, who could make a difference for Eyal Segal's team.
Kanikovsky became a leading player at Maccabi Netanya, but not a landlord.
By nature he is not a sucker at all, but neither is he one who takes things by force.
Last season he recorded his peak season with 9 goals and 9 assists in 32 appearances and asked his agents to leave for Europe.
He saw Jonas Melda make his way to Belgium already in the middle of last season and wanted to do the same.
He changed agents, insisted on not signing with a big team in the country and played with his cards until the last minute.
When he saw that there was no way out and the choice was to move from Maccabi Netanya to another large team in the country, he gave the green light to move to Maccabi Tel Aviv.
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Kanikovsky (Photo: Official website, courtesy of Maccabi Tel Aviv)
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"I returned to Maccabi Tel Aviv from the front door," he said over the weekend ahead of his debut tonight in Bloomfield against Maccabi Petah Tikva.
"This is not the time when I would come from the youth department to train with the alumni of Maccabi Tel Aviv, a little ashamed. Now I came to Maccabi Tel Aviv as my back."
For Maccabi Tel Aviv fans Gabi Kanikovsky is the player they wanted before everyone else this summer.
It is true that Maccabi Tel Aviv added hot league players this summer, such as Osama Khalaila and Idan Nachmias, but Kanikovsky was marked as something else.
Dan Bitton already played last season, quality strangers on offense have not really landed and made a difference in recent years, so on Stipa Fritza and Brandly Quas will still look from the stands with suspicion.
Kanikovsky is supposed to be the diamond.
This will give the answer to the departures of the noble Omar and the generation of Micah.
It will bring the shine.
There is something magical in the eyes of the Maccabi Tel Aviv crowd on the track that Kanikovsky did.
Precisely through the past butts, without the backing of Maccabi Tel Aviv and without the envelope received by many players who came up from the youth and rubbed shoulders with the national team, it is what excites the fans who are crying out for the return of the championship to Kiryat Shalom.
Will close the circle tonight.
Kanikovsky in yellow for Maccabi Tel Aviv (Photo: Official website, Maccabi Tel Aviv)
For Maccabi Tel Aviv, he was not at the top of the shopping list when last season ended. Barak Yitzhaki and Patrick Van Leven do not really count the fact that five years ago they let him go, so it was not a matter of professional ego. The fact that he was not marked first was because Maccabi Tel Aviv believed that he would bring a foreigner in his position and also because Dan Bitton was the first priority. In the end, Bitton was signed and when Maccabi Tel Aviv realized that there was money in the coffers after qualifying for the Conference League and Knikowski abandoned his dreams of going to Europe, it was decided to go for it with all his might when most of the deal was for Eden Kartzev. "I think this is the first time that every club feels that it has made a better deal. Maccabi Tel Aviv is convinced that it made a great deal and Maccabi Netanya is sure that it made a great deal. In that case, the deal is really great for both sides," Tel Aviv to Maccabi Netanya.
6 years after the goal he scored for Maccabi Tel Aviv's youth team in the Champions League, tonight Gabi Kanikovsky will play with the club's senior shirt and close a very special circle for him.
When he is 24 years old and with a good three years at Maccabi Netanya, he has to make the next step to be on another list, such as the one that will open the door for the Israeli team, a place he so desperately wants to reach from the front door.
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