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Barco test: The Israeli team must appoint real professional authority
The Israeli team will end another disappointing campaign today and the question is what will the association do now?
Will they go for a gamble and try to flicker with Eyal Berkowitz or another temporary solution, or will they make a horizontal change and appoint a real professional who will take our football a few steps further
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Israel's national team
Eyal Berkowitz
Willy Rotensteiner
Ophir Saar
Monday, 15 November 2021, 10:54 Updated: 11:51
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Summary: Austria - Israel 2.4 (Sports 1)
Tonight, the Israeli team will end the 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign with an unsuccessful attempt to qualify for a major tournament.
Not that it surprises anyone.
For the Israeli football fan, everything was expected and the feeling is that qualifying for a big tournament is a miracle - something that may never happen.
But the football fan is an amateur, and the association has the responsibility of professionals to make decisions.
If Willie goes home, it does not change the fact that the team is in short supply of quality players with quite a few positions on the field and with a lot of difficulties that need rebuilding.
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Eyal Berkowitz?
Feels like raising a hand (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)
The question is where Oren Hasson is heading. Before Rotensteiner's appointment he really thought of Eyal Berkowitz, met with him and said that after nothing worked then maybe it's worth trying something else. He thought it's worth a try for The Wizard. There are quite a few who think like Oren Hasson, that it is worth trying something unconventional, and maybe from this khomin will happen the incredible and rise to a big tournament.
So it is, that the story here is far beyond a big tournament. Even a single flicker will not change the fact that football here must be rehabilitated, that a national team coach only places it in the guise of professional management, which requires a technical manager, and not one that is transferred to the coach's position as an intermediate solution.
Even before hiring a coach, you need a technical manager to choose him and the path and also someone to lead the entire professional issue. We have so many problems, difficulties and ailments and this business must be run from above by a professional authority. Someone who will all know that the goals are future and not advancing in the upcoming campaign and in an idle attempt to qualify for a big tournament.
When Berkowitz's name comes up again and again, it feels like a show of hands. Berkowitz can not work under any serious professional manager, he is not a role model and does not have the mental stability for the situation. It is clear to everyone, but on the other hand, the idea of thinking outside the box always winks at people.
So it might have been worth a try if there was some healthy situation here in Israeli football, a situation where we are conducting ourselves properly, but lacking a bit of luck and sharpness to get into a big tournament.
This is not the case, our team and football are in big trouble and we need professionals to help improve it along the whole boulevard.
Berkowitz is not one of those, he really wants and believes in himself but has chosen all these years not to engage in the coaching profession and the "whirl and we're done" theory that he thinks will lead to an uninteresting team, the Israeli team and football need much more than that.
"10 years criticizes the credit Beavers gets Natcho and all the coaches let him lead the middle. It says it all, it's easy to talk from the outside, hard to deal with from the inside."
Natcho with Rotensteiner and Oren Hasson (Photo: Official website, official website of the Football Association)
Who will fit? It does not matter if he is a foreigner or an Israeli, he needs to be a quality professional, with a personality, one who can take the national team and football a few steps further. Regardless of whether we qualify for a big tournament or not, one that will make an impact in every corner and help change at least some of the problems we have.
Willy Rotensteiner will end his role today. He was not a bad coach throughout the campaign, on the contrary, we saw a lot of beautiful things from the team and one could also hear the appreciation of the senior players. After the last game against Austria everyone knew how to mock his helpless answers at the end of the game, but he was just honest and did not try to mix, there are really no solutions and answers to the team's problems at the moment, even the next coach will probably have to live with them.
10 years criticizing the credit Beavers gets Natcho and all the coaches let him lead the middle.
It says it all, easy to talk about from the outside, hard to deal with from the inside.
It's easy to fantasize about those who can do much more, but the reality is bitter, we are not worth more than that, maybe less.
Internalizing it is also our chance to do something different in the future.
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