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Diamonds forever: The magic of Bnei Lam's comeback to Maccabi Netanya

It is not clear how far the new coach will be able to take his youth team, but in Netanya they are first and foremost excited about the return of the passion for happy football.

Ron Amikam sums up the Sabbath, including Van Levon's really serious fixation, Maccabi Haifa's profit from the break and the star who almost 100 goals do not prevent him from staying underrated

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Ron Amikam

Sunday, October 17, 2021, 10:00 p.m.

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Summary: Maccabi Netanya - Maccabi Tel Aviv 2: 4 (Sport 1)

In the terminology of Israeli football there is the capital of the Negev and the capital of the valley and the city of the Sea of ​​Galilee and for some reason the city of diamonds. Netanya is in fact the romantic capital of Israeli football. It was more tempting to write "Israel of Liverpool", but Hapoel Beer Sheva has proven in recent years that it is hers, also in terms of color coordination.

Maccabi Netanya has never been the richest team in Israel, far from it, and the big money was brought by Daniel Yamar during the period when Gaydamak brought more. The golden years of Maccabi Netanya were thanks to the local material, the mythological pitch and the sexy football. Other teams adopted methods of play, played in orderly formations, lines of defense, personal guards - Netanya played football. If you ask a Netanya fan what he wants most of all, it is doubtful if he will immediately say "championship", he will first want to get back excited. Sometimes this intoxication from a great game, is the memory of a whole torture.

And no Netanya fan will be able to erase yesterday's evening, when one of the stars of the mythical championship seasons arrived, and on his first evening as the coach of Maccabi Netanya he has always returned Netanya to those good old days, or actually returned to Netanya the football she loves most.

For a moment it seemed that this Netanya was Brazil - a country where the passion for football is sometimes greater than football itself - and we have no idea how to say "jogo bonito" in Trablas.

It is true that one of the unfortunate teams of Maccabi Tel Aviv has always stood opposite, but why spoil a wonderful story with tedious facts?

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Bnei Lem: "There is not much time to celebrate, Haifa and Beer Sheva are stronger than Maccabi Tel Aviv"

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A man full of passion, with the Brazilian-Netanya mentality.

Bnei Lem (Photo: Berni Ardov)

Let's tell the truth, how many people outside Netanya thought that Bnei Lem could change Maccabi Netanya from end to end (and to his credit it should be said that he gave credit to Raymond Atfeld's assistants yesterday)? 62 years old, has not coached graduates for many years, most of the time in youth departments and usually not on the lines but as a professional manager, takes heart to beach soccer games, specializes in sand soccer, in bicycles like Yaniv Mizrahi yesterday (we already said: why spoil a good story with facts, but Was in this goal Paul was clear about Hernandez).

But Lem is a man full of passion, with the Brazilian-Netanya mentality of "football here is more than a game, it is a way of life, it is life itself", with a tremendous commitment to offensive, harmonious, stormy and tumultuous football. This is how Maccabi Netanya was in the early 80's - with two defenders who did not leave the opponent's field, probably did not defend, with an insane offensive link, with a trio of strikers with ball control or an excellent head game or all together. In the same way, Netanya lost a championship to Hapoel Kfar Saba, in a season in which they knocked out six games in two consecutive home games, including for Maccabi Tel Aviv. What was it like for Maccabi Netanya to dismantle Maccabi Tel Aviv? is nothing. The cup holder then left the points near the Wingate Institute.

And that's how Lem got to the game yesterday.

Without defense, without the ability to neutralize even one striker, but with strengths, and speed, and eye-catching play, and kicks from any situation.

This is how I remember Maccabi Netanya, this is how Lem knows Maccabi Netanya, this is how Eyal Segal wants Maccabi Netanya.

I do not know where Lem's ecstasy project can lead, because a formidable football team that knows how to defend can dismantle this mine, but it will be of less interest to Maccabi Netanya fans.

Lem woke them up, gave them back the joy of life.

Suddenly this transition from Matfeld to Lem seems more ingenious than ironic.

Adherence to certain players is also a mental fixation.

Patrick Van Leven (Photo: Bernie Ardov)

Speaking of Atfeld, the ground beneath his mentor in Israel, Patrick Van Leven, began to shake yesterday. If the tsunami waves reach as far as Toronto, Mitch Goldhaar may save the senior team from his presence. Van Leven's failure is his fixation. Changing this method is not an option for him, but worse, sticking to certain players is also a mental fixation. We can talk until tomorrow that if Eyal Golsa can play 45 minutes in the second half, he can also play in the first half, and if Brandley Kwas gave one good game at Maccabi, it does not mean he is a default, and if Luis Hernandez can not defend, he should continue to be a brake .

I write about Hernandez here almost every week.

His departure is so slow that he uses every means to stop an opposing player, and some of it with his hands, pulling on a shirt, means that even an Israeli player knows how to use.

For this do not bring a brake from Spain, penalties can also make a player from the youth.

Speaking of Spain, if Ophir Davidzada plays for the team, he can start for Maccabi Tel Aviv, and move Saborit to the brake position.

If you have to switch to three brakes for that, it's not that terrible, it's even offensive, but with a coach who sanctifies the 3-3-4 as before, and permeates it to the ninth teams as well, it has no chance, unless ...

Hungry players are the best players in the lineup.

Mahmoud Jaber (Photo: Danny Maron)

Hapoel Jerusalem also has a sea of ​​romance. Home players, a group of fans, a club full of volunteers. It may end in a quick relegation back to the Second Division, but no one there will be excited about it. They will continue the same way. The second time maybe it will catch on and if not, then maybe the third time. As a club, Hapoel Jerusalem is ready to receive a quartet every week that Goni Naor is invited to the team.

Therefore, it was one of the most comfortable games for Maccabi Haifa to do a systems check and see that everything works, even if the game in the first half was drowsy.

The selected windows in recent years have become very intense, some stretching into the teams' final preparations back into the league.

Teams that have representation in national teams, usually the big teams, are affected by this.

Let go of the players' late return to training - PSG played on Friday without South Americans and barely won - but mostly the week and a half in which a team trains with rifts.

This is where the depth of the staff is expressed, and this is how - from selected teams - chapters of glory are born, as in the case of Mahmoud Jaber.

Muhammad Abu Fani injured, Ali Muhammad returned from the Nigerian team's World Cup qualifiers just a day before the game, so Jaber opened, scored a double and cooked another one.

Hungry players - for exposure, fame, minutes of play - are the best players in the team.

Maccabi Haifa earned much more than three points from this game and improved goal difference - it gained another player for the rotation.

Underrated with almost 100 career goals.

Alon Turgeman (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

Hapoel Haifa had such a season opener, it never ended in a run for the championship. Twice it ended in a top playoff. Yes, Hapoel Haifa in the Yoav Katz era reached the top playoffs twice, with Nir Klinger and Haim Sylves. You can bet that she will also be there this season, with Elisha Levy. As for running for the championship, let's wait.

Still, what stands out at Hapoel Haifa is the excellent injury to purchasing players. Alon Turgeman is considered underrated in terms of Israeli football, a striker who spared the shadow of other strikers and his few minutes of glory in the team - against Romania in Netanya in a friendly game - were alongside the few minutes of glory that Eran Levy received in the class. This is about the treatment that Turgeman received in Israeli football, and he is a player with almost 100 goals in his career.

His presence at Hapoel Haifa is reminiscent of the presence that was there for Mahran Lala and Eden Ben-Best, and that is a good basis for thinking big.

Add Alan Ozbolt, a Slovenian player without appearances for the national team (but with a lot of goals in the young national teams), who at the age of 25 already has 6 titles in three different countries.

He brings with him aromas of winemaking, which is exactly what Hapoel Haifa has not had for 22 years.

Hapoel Haifa is already the black horse of the league this season, the question is where this horse will go.

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