One of the few coaches in Europe with a balance of 100 percent success is Kobe Medicine.
Hapoel Tel Aviv under him achieved four consecutive victories, in which she scored 10 goals and conceded only 2. What is the magic secret of the coach? You will be surprised or not, but overall it is a change of attitude.
Three weeks is a very short period of time in football, but still in this range medicine has managed, at least until now, to get his players to make a switch in their head.
The first change that the coach emphasizes in training and also in games is to play offensively and put pressure on the opponent.
Hapoel players testified that sometimes in the games that the coach conducts for them in training, they naturally go back, and this drives the medicine that screams at them crazy: "Stop playing backwards, go forward."
The coaching sessions of the coach, which do not cross the 10-minute mark, so that the players do not despair of them, deal with the tactical side and the way the team should play.
At one of the meetings, Medicine presented an attack pattern in which five players enter the opponent's 16th court, and told the players: "I want 5 players in the court, not 3 or 4, if you are not 5 in the court I will replace you. I have no problem getting a goal on the other side At my own risk. "
But apart from the tactical matter, there is also the personal attitude.
From the moment Medicine enters the role he conducts many personal and focused conversations with actors.
From the Rose era he asked: "Start giving goals and cooking, that's why I need you on the field."
To the striker Shlomi Azulai, he made it clear that he would not release him and is building on him, and so he got another player in the car.
Along the way he brought players back into rotation, like Shay Eisen.
Medicine caused Hapoel Tel Aviv players to make a switch in the head, Photo: Udi Citiat,
Need reinforcement?
Before the game against Hapoel Haifa, Refuah took the players from the youth team for a personal conversation, who jumped to the senior team and had to start in the squad due to the wave of infections in Corona and injuries.
"Play as you are used to, do not be afraid to make mistakes," the coach told Omar Senor, Or Israelov and Sagi Ganis, and received a great performance from the three players.
Hapoel says that it was important for Kobi to go to a hotel before Hapoel Haifa, to feel the players and talk to them, especially with the young people, and so it was.
"Sometimes Kobe yells at the players, sometimes he makes calls with them," says a club official.
Sagi Ganis in the game against Hapoel Haifa, Photo: Maor Elkelsi,
Medicine is interested in adding a foreign player to the wing in the current transfer window, but at this stage it is still unclear whether reinforcements will arrive.
The first reason is that the Reds cannot add a new player without releasing another player, to make room in the budget.
Lucio, who has already been notified that he is not in the plans, is not interested in moving to the Galilee landscape.
The second reason is that the management believes that the team is good enough even without strengthening it, and a Hapoel source said on the subject that "instead of strengthening, it is possible to bring in players from the youth. We have great players in the youth and we saw that they can be given a chance."
Meanwhile, Hapoel Tel Aviv announced yesterday that the pair of defenders, Ben Bitton and Benny Tridovsky, were found positive for the corona virus after a PCR test. The two join the three players who contracted the virus last week - Idan Vered, Dan Einbinder and Doron Leidner. , And may be eligible for the game against Hapoel Nof Hagalil on Saturday.
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