Already last month, the chairman of the Football Association, Oren Hasson, held talks with his associates and explained to them that there is no way to keep national team coach Willy Rotensteiner in office. The high salary, the Austrian demands for the next campaign The appointment, they decided, and a conversation between Hasson and Rotensteiner closed the story.
The coach will receive his salary until May, but in fact he will stop working for the team immediately.
Next month she is expecting a training match against the German team, but who will manage it will be Marco Belbul.
The association said that the desire is that there will also be confusion in the next professional team, although it is still unclear how this will happen, because there is no coach yet chosen to start working in place of Rotensteiner.
But it will not be easy to appoint a new coach.
The budget is limited and will be around 250,000 euros a year.
Hasson's entourage said he had been offered dozens of foreign coaches.
The big names demand much higher wages, while those with no experience may meet the budget but not the requirements of the Israeli association.
Alon Hazan.
Prominent candidate, Photo: Getty
In this situation, several Israeli candidates will arrive at the search committee, which will convene soon.
Two of them are Alon Hazan, who currently coaches the young team, and Ran Ben Shimon, who is ending his contract at MS Ashdod.
The India Association said that Barak Bachar was one of the names who really wanted him to come, but it was very quickly understood that he was continuing with Maccabi Haifa and the issue was dropped.
"Produce an orderly organization"
This is not Oren Hasson's only plan when it comes to the senior Israeli team.
Aside from the change in the professional team, Hasson wants to make an organizational change in everything related to graduates.
First, to appoint a superintendent who will be responsible for the top-down team, a kind of "team general manager" under whom the general management avenue will be located.
Ran Ben Shimon.
Will receive credit, Photo: Bernie Ardov
Under him will be a new national team manager, who will replace Guy Portniagin who has finished his job.
In front of the same manager, the professional team will also be managed: the requests and plans for training camps abroad, the management of the professional team and more.
All this is supposed to happen already in the upcoming campaign in the League of Nations for Euro 2024 and in the European Championship qualifiers 2024. Hasson's decision follows the fact that around the senior team there is quite a bit of work, beyond professional matters.
"The goal is to produce an orderly organization that will provide a solution to the professional staff," the association explained the chairman's plan.
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