Balkan Beat Box: The all-time teams of the Yugoslavs at Maccabi and Hapoel Tel Aviv
Ilyev v. Wojciech, Simrotic vs. Raikovic and also Ostrz, Punch, Rupnik and Martinovic.
In the shadow of the Serbian trend in Kiryat Shalom and just before the derby, we went to choose the all-time lineups of the ex-Yugoslav foreigners of Maccabi and Hapoel Tel Aviv
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11/02/2022
Friday, February 11, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
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Summary of the victory of Maccabi Tel Aviv 0: 1 over Urbani Kiryat Shmona (Sport 1)
The clinical goal of Georgia Juvanovic in Maccabi Tel Aviv's victory over Kiryat Shmona last Saturday left a strong impression that the Yellows are on their way to another success story with imports from Serbia.
Tomorrow (Saturday, 20:00) Juvanovic will meet in the Tel Aviv derby his former Belgrade partisan friend, Marco Jankovic, who recently moved to Hapoel Tel Aviv, and all this in front of Mladen Krastic on the lines.
On the occasion of the festive event and in the shadow of the trend in Kiryat Shalom in recent years (Yukanovich, Raikovic, Ivica, Krastich, Fritza, Yuvanovich, etc.), we went to assemble the all-time ensembles of the two Tel Avivians, of foreigners from the former Yugoslavia.
Hapoel Tel Aviv does this with a small star because she has never had a goalkeeper from these countries.
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On Saturday they will meet on the grass in Bloomfield.
Juvanovic Vinkovic during the joint days of the Belgrade partisan (Photo: GettyImages, Srdjan Stevanovic)
Maccabi Tel Aviv (3-4-1-2)
Goalkeeper: Predrag Rejkovic (Serbia).
He excelled in the history of Maccabi Tel Aviv for four seasons and recently also won the championship with the Yellows.
An island of stability in the years when Maccabi lost its debut in Israel, was sold to the French Reims for about 4.5 million euros.
Brake: Sabo Pavicevic (Montenegro).
Let us be clear from now on - Maccabi Tel Aviv has played very few defensive players from ex-Yugoslavia over the years, so the competition was not difficult.
Pavicevic came with a resume that includes a season in the Bundesliga and a permanent place in the Montenegro national team, usually showed good ability, but is considered one of the great protégés of the Tel Aviv derby games.
He has never won one - not even after later joining the city rival.
Brake: Roberto Ponches (Croatia).
A Croatian stopper who came to Maccabi Tel Aviv at the age of only 20 as a talent for whom it will still be possible to cut a coupon.
In practice patience ran out pretty quickly and after a season that included 23 unstable appearances in all settings, he packed up and left for Union Berlin - then a modest team in the German sub-league.
Brake: Milan Martinovic (Serbia).
The Serb arrived as part of the post-Galacticos revolution and turned out to be a not bad brake, with technique and game wisdom, but also very low speed.
After a year and a half in Kiryat Shalom, Maccabi showed him the way out and he reunited in Bnei Yehuda with the coach who landed him in Israel, Eli Cohen.
Part of Eli Cohen's revolution after the Galacticos.
Martinovich (Photo: Bernie Ardov)
Right wing: Giovanni Rossi (Croatia).
The Croatian who has long since become an Israeli is poorly remembered as part of the failed Galacticos season, but in the second season in yellow-blue he left a good mark and was one of the team's leaders.
Middle contact: Harris Madonianin (Bosnia).
One of the best players to land in Israel, even if it doesn't always seem like he has the desire to show it.
The Bosnian played for Maccabi Tel Aviv for two terms, before and after the championships - but although he did not win any titles here, he shone with sparks from football that does not belong here.
Middle contact: Nikola Mitrovic (Serbia).
Two championships, one trophy, stability in the center of the field.
The Serb laid by Paolo Sousa was not one of Maccabi Tel Aviv's brilliant players, but machines like that of the middle of the previous decade always need reliable screws of this kind.
Left wing: Domagoj Kosic (Croatia).
A short, agile and technical attacking midfielder, who played for Maccabi Tel Aviv in 1997, made 20 league appearances and joined the Yugoslav squad mainly due to a lack of competition.
Offensive contact: Ivica Iliev (Serbia).
The Serb landed in Israel in 2009 after playing in Italy, Germany and Greece and in half a season in the Premier League showed flashes of genius that explained why he played in other football worlds.
Injured in the middle of the season and released at the end.
Forward: Alexander Pesic (Serbia).
The hot-tempered Serb spent a short and nervous period in Israel, but left a significant mark with 10 league goals in 23 games and a prestigious conquest against Villarreal in the Europa League.
Next to winning the trophy there is an asterisk because at that time he was no longer part of the team - after not returning to Israel in the shadow of the corona eruption.
Striker: Stifa Fritza (Croatia).
True, he is here only half a season, but what he did during it gives him priority over the late Million Mardkovich.
9 conquests in all settings, victory goals over Maccabi Haifa and Betar Jerusalem and dealing with a coach who according to reports does not really hold him. That is enough for a place in the team so
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After all, one of the best strangers to ever be here.
Madonianin (Photo: Reuters)
Hapoel Tel Aviv (3-4-1-2)
Goalkeeper: No
stopper: Marco Simic (Montenegro).
The brake of the Montenegro national team, which was placed in the Khodorov complex by Eli Gutman, but inevitably fell into the disintegration and disintegration season of Hapoel Tel Aviv.
He managed to show good ability in his not many months in the Premier League and considering the other Yugoslav brakes of Hapoel Tel Aviv over the years, that is enough for the team.
Brake: Branko Ilic (Slovenia).
Part of the Ilyich-Colin duo consumed by Ran Ben Shimon after a reasonable collaboration in Famagusta Anorthosis.
The Slovenian proved to be a quick but soft brake.
Sometimes he shone and sometimes he made mistakes that came up in losses.
After several breaches of discipline and a desire to leave, he ended his career with the team at the end of one season.
Brake: Marco Schuler (Slovenia).
He played for Hapoel Tel Aviv for half a season as a magnet loanee and was far from impressive, but won the cup with the team and served as a regular car player for the late Nitzan Shirzi.
Sometimes he shone and sometimes he made mistakes that came up in losses.
Ilyich (Photo: Berni Ardov)
Right wing: Mirko Urmush (Croatia)
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The dogboy of Dror Kashtan and later of Nitzan Shirzi.
Never shone, but always worked and ran, ran and worked.
He scored the first goal in the victory over Maccabi Haifa in the Cup final in 2012, before saying goodbye.
Middle contact: Dabour Rupnik (Croatia)
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A fearless fighter and one of the favorite foreigners of Hapoel Tel Aviv fans of all time, who to this day makes sure to stay in touch with some of them.
The Croatian Hapoel won the cup with the Reds in 1999 and a year later increased to a double under Dror Kashtan.
He never shone on the court, just as he never escaped a tackle and never gave up a single ball.
Middle contact: Nemanja Nikolic (Montenegro).
Selected after a close race with Mario Mestrovic from the lacing season.
The Montenegrin arrived in the middle of the 2015/16 season and left an immediate imprint with goals, assists and leadership that led him even to the captain’s armband after a few months.
Completed only one year on the team after leaving in the middle of the disintegration season that followed.
Left wing: Diane Rachunica (Croatia).
The brilliant Croatian was not a real and natural winger, but Dror Kashtan sometimes used him as such and so did we.
An English part of the 1999/2000 double season, including a goal in the cup final against Betar Jerusalem in front of 40,000 spectators at Ramat Gan Stadium. Fantastic left foot, rare game wisdom in our districts. Finished his way in the red uniform after a year and a half.
Offensive contact: Nemanja Beach (Serbia).
He flew the ball to Tvartko Cala's connections at Wassermill in his debut, scored against Celtic, subdued Ashdod and my brother Nazareth and after about three months was shut down due to a mysterious medical problem.
Although he appeared only 9 times in the league, the Serb was part of the red double in the 2009/10 season and Hapoel Tel Aviv today miss the days when they were able to add players who came with the names of Lokomotiv Moscow and FC.
Cologne in the resume.
Forward: Sebastian Simrotic (Slovenia).
He joined in the middle of the lacing season and immediately scored a double in the cup against Maccabi Jaffa.
He became famous for his unstoppable dribble and indigestible misses, appeared in the nightmares of Itzik Kornfein, Alan Mashraki and Shai Hess, and unfortunately sometimes also in those of Dror Kashtan who eventually showed him the door.
Won with the Reds two trophies and a championship, even though he saw the double celebrations from the stands with his leg plastered.
Forward: Milan Ostrets (Slovenia).
A compatriot of Simrotic, who did not win a significant title in Israel (apart from the Toto Cup), but was very impressive in the famous European trip in 2001/2.
Scored against Lokomotiv Moscow, Chelsea and Parma and who this season seemed completely uninterested in the Premier League, remains to this day as one of the most influential foreign strikers the team has had.
Not included in the squad:
Damir Shuvshitch, Boyan Verrucina, Robert Tzetsky, Mario Mestrovic, Damian Geiser, Petar Orlandic, Sabo Pavicevic, Faisal Molic, Nikola Petkovic, Eugenin Lakic, Stefan Spirovsky, Basart Abdorachi , Ivan Julich, Marko Jankovic.
Appeared in the nightmares of Itzik Kornfein, Alan Mashraki and Shai Hess, and unfortunately sometimes also in those of Dror Kashtan.
Simrotic (Photo: GettyImages, SNS Group)
The Tel Aviv derby will take place on Saturday at 20:00.
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