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The man who has always been there: Amatzia Lewkowicz, one of the main figures in the history of Israeli football
The unforgettable championships, the exciting journeys with the team, the work in the GSS and the capture of Eichmann, the history in Be'er Sheva and Haifa, the character and morals, the warrior in the haphazardism that became burnt.
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Amatzia Lewkowicz
Ron Amikam
Thursday, 04 November 2021, 11:00 Updated: 11:25
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There is a man in Israeli football who claims to have been at every crossroads in the history of the industry.
Amatzia Lewkowicz, who died tonight at the age of 83, never said that about himself, he was just there.
In GDNA (formerly the most famous youth club in the country), in a team that traveled to the historic game in the Soviet Union, in the first championship of Hapoel Tel Aviv since the establishment of the state, in its first cup, in the duel against Wales, in the big victory in Yugoslavia, in games against Italy, in winning the Asian Championship. Although he suffered a concussion in the first game), as captain of Hapoel Tel Aviv in winning the Asian Champions Cup, as the only stopper to win the football title twice in a row, as coach of the youth team that won the Asian Championship, as assistant coach in the only World Cup in which Israel played, and first coach to bring a trophy to Jerusalem Who brought a championship to Be'er Sheva and even the first coach to actually coach a foreign team.He was there: dedicated but opinionated, loyal but rebellious, loyal and critical.
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So many significant nodes.
The late Levkovich (Photo: Flash 90, Moshe Shai)
The shadow of Emanuel Sheffer, the honesty advocate of Saturn Kalmanovich and even the man who developed in the GSS laboratory near the flea market the negatives that proved that Eichmann was captured. Above all, Amatzia was a patriot. 40s and 50s, with hundreds of Jews touching them, an instinctive ability to sing "Hatikva".
The late Levkovich was a young coach and an opinionated man. His opinion of Israeli football was strict. As someone who joined forces with Sheffer for years, his opinion was decisive. Remnants of the mouth with the tablecloth, even if they were the best players on the team. Nir Klinger, the symbol of diligence, was the footballer of the season. As a piano teacher's partner, he became addicted to concerts, insisted on culture, even though he grew up in a Keshet Yom family in the Neve Sha'anan neighborhood, not far from Tel Aviv Central Station.
What Amatzia did to Be'er Sheva, maybe only Rubik Danilovich did.
He shortened the road from Tel Aviv to Be'er Sheva by 40 years.
Well, slip between Maccabi Netanya Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Tel Aviv, and another two years in a row? Was ultimately Lewkowicz not taken orally championship far from the center more than 35 kilometers.
And the efforts loved it. When required, traveled to Kiryat Shmona to teach football, he helped To go to Betar Jerusalem to move from Motella Spiegler to Lilo Ofer, went to the artist in Bopotsuana.
For him, teaching football was no less important than practicing it.
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"You're talking about Levkovich, you're talking about status, about authority, this is the aura that was around him, it went with him all the way" (Photo: Berni Ardov)
Amatzia was a conversationalist. You were able to meet him and be dragged into interesting alleys. He had a cynical sense of humor, stinging where necessary. He told me the following story - completely true - 25 years ago, and I do not forget a word. The story of how at the Asian Championships in Seoul in 1960 he tried to call home. In those days you had to ask the switchboard to forward the call to you. The PBX transferred him to a PBX in Seoul, from where he was transferred to Tokyo, San Francisco, New York, London, Jerusalem, from there to Tel Aviv, where he was sadly informed that there was no answer at home.
In a book initiated by his family in honor of his 80th birthday, the football bard Rami Rothholtz wrote of him: "He was an institution. His status in Israeli football was unquestionable. As a child he seemed to me a figure from the legends. "He was the best brake in the country. When you talk about Levkovich you talk about status, about authority, it's the aura that was around him, it went with him all the way. He was not challenged about his status as a brake. the gate".
He will definitely be missed.
Of blessed memory.
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