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The Hapoel Tel Aviv players and the team members celebrated the big victory in the 82:83 derby against Maccabi into the small hours of the night (between Sunday and Monday).
After dancing with the fans for a long time on the parquet in Menora Mivtachim Hall, the group went to a restaurant in Ramat Hachayal where they spent long hours.
"We know how important this game is to our audience, it's a game with prestige and importance," Idan Zalmanson said.
"There was a crazy atmosphere, we needed this win because we missed a few games at the beginning of the season and I'll be hopeful that in the cup and in the second round we will have good games and we will be fine."
"We knew there would be a full house, and there would be a Euroleague game for everything, because we are a rival that Maccabi takes seriously and there is a lot of prestige on the agenda," said Danny Franco happily.
"We did an exceptional preparation and I was afraid the players would be a little confused by everything we tried to do, but I'm glad they responded accordingly."
Zalmanson.
"We needed this victory," Photo: Alan Schieber,
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In recent days spoke professionals and board members with the players about the importance in trying to end the first round in eighth place and try to reach the quarter-finals despite a mediocre season opening minus.
Bar Timor, who has not trained all week, made it clear to the coaches and medical staff that he intends to play anyway and indeed came on the field in pain and was also not bad at all, contributing his share to the win.
After meeting the first task set, Franco and his team hope that the victory will have positive consequences.
"If we do not win the next three games it is as if we have not done anything here," the team said.
"This game can do good and can do bad," the coach explained.
"We deal with exercises all day, but in the end people play this game and we have to see how they react to the situation. Just as a loss is an introduction to a crisis, such a victory can also be an introduction to less good things to come later. My job is to keep everyone in proportion. I will say "The same goes for the players, the season did not start or end today, this game can do us good or bad, and we need to be more consistent and stable. If we do not win against Gilboa and Eilat, this season can end quickly for us."
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There are also bad things from the game yesterday that require root canal treatment.
The team could be severely punished for the behavior of some of its fans who threw dozens of cardboard paper sticks, drinking glasses, rolls of toilet paper and various objects at the parquet and towards the stands of the host team fans.
Some of the fans were arrested by the police and security forces.
One of the rolls of paper hit a young girl who was very frightened, many poles hit Maccabi fans and the drinking glasses hit the seats of fans, journalists and other people who were present in the hall.
One of the questions that arose was how permission was given to insert the cardboard rods, when officials at the security company tried to understand why the approval was indeed received.
The management of Maccabi Tel Aviv also complained about what was happening to the police and those responsible for security.
The security guards suggested to the fans sitting under the stands of Hapoel Tel Aviv fans to move to another place where there would be no danger of being hit by objects thrown at them.
The members of the league administration who were present at the venue did not like to see what was happening and discussed ways to prevent the recurrence of events in the following games between the teams.
Hapoel Tel Aviv fans.
There were also less beautiful parts in the game, Photo: Alan Shiber,
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