Again a proper revelation about Nir Klinger: I love him.
He is one of the most important figures in Israeli football for generations.
In Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Israeli national team. An important player and coach, a significant figure, a charismatic leader. Even Hapoel Haifa brought a trophy. But when he arrived at Hapoel Tel Aviv, the wheel began to turn back.
Klinger was fired yesterday (Sunday), but he finished pretty long ago.
Even his interview on Tuesday after the defeat to Bnei Yehuda was different.
He broadcast surrender.
I saw and texted my editor and another friend, who he finished, and another message will come out.
There were many signs of this end, but as soon as at least consciously Klinger ceased to be a coach bringing solutions to this patient club, and became a modern edition of Shia Feigenbaum, the ceremony ended.
First of all because Shia has only one, and there is no room for another like him - but Nir's disaster happened because before he was treated as the Klinger coach, they talked about his shell - the obscene movement for Maccabi's audience, the six away games, the Casablanca interviews with him at the end of each game.
Every Hebrew mother will know: when a Feigenbaum character is cast on you in "Puppet of the Night," it means that the ax appeared in the first act.
And like elephants who know long before a tsunami arrives, I felt like an elephant a long time ago.
Israeli football is in an avalanche.
Klinger arrives at a sick club, and he passes it on to his successor, whose name is Medicine.
Kobe, like Klinger, presents a roller coaster in his resume, but his story is mostly survival and long-distance conversations with the Luzons and Izzy Shretzky.
And when Hapoel Tel Aviv immediately passes one that broadcast survival to a new-old survivor, a football club that has forgotten what it means to succeed is established in the mind.
It is owned by owners who received it as if it were a Victory chain.
Running a football club is the most complicated business in the world.
You have to manage money in it, and especially people.
Klinger failed to align with the poor and surviving model built there in recent years.
And when Wiener had to turn his skin - that's what it looked like.
Were we wrong?
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