A war in which there are no winners: Derby Week shocked Maccabi and Hapoel Tel Aviv fans

What happened to Tel Aviv sports fans this week was not easy: two derbies of exceptional intensity, a delightful and painful victory and loss, with teasing and humiliation, happiness and suffering.

A week that made fans recognize the damage of the never-ending war, and a final recognition: there is no greater game than this

Paz Hasdai

19/02/2022

Saturday, February 19, 2022, 9:00 p.m.

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Summary: Hapoel Tel Aviv - Maccabi Tel Aviv 3: 2, dramatic victory goal for Lubanovich (Sport 1)

What happened to Tel Aviv sports fans this week was not easy, friends.

These were two exceptional derbies in their power, with one ending in victory and the other in loss, and vice versa.

Sages have already said that if you are not a part of it, you will never understand, and they seem to have been right.

One moment you shine happily and soar to the heights, and a minute later absorb a blow that throws you to the ground.

Although there are a few who are only interested in football or only basketball, and for them there is no argument at all, it was a tremendous / nightmarish week - but the vast majority, zigzagging between the two disciplines, experienced a shake that made him acknowledge the war damage.

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One moment like this (Photo: Danny Maron)

And one moment like that (Photo: Danny Maron)

If, say, Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were told before the start of the week that they would win the football derby 2: 3 from a goal in the 93rd minute and then lose the basketball game, it is likely that the majority would happily take the deal.

After all, with all due respect to basketball and the guys in the Winner League, it's still a secondary enterprise, and quite ridiculous.

The general public is not really familiar with the operating souls (giving Naor another game?), There is no comparison between the prestige of the industries and the intensity of the games, a derby in Bloomfield is the Holy of Holies, and a 2: 3 victory, with a goal swing, is an instant classic.

Indeed, he was delightful.

Rare in quality.

One moment Einbinder is about to push in the winning goal in front of an empty goal in front of goal 5, a moment later Gottlieb slides back the cooking of victory, and everything is decided by inches here or there, maybe even millimeters.

The feeling is of divine intervention, that the name next to you, or against you, is all from heaven.

And since then, from Saturday night to Monday night, the Yellows have been in euphoria for two days.

They forget about the deal, come back as usual, pounce on the next challenge.

40 minutes later, they receive a humiliating blow to Elijah's hand, which will forget everything.

One day a nightmare (Photo: Danny Maron)

Two days later pure happiness (Photo: Danny Maron)

Because it is "only" basketball, and today's Maccabi is not the Maccabi of yesteryear, but it really was special.

A crushing victory of the Reds, third in a row, humiliating and scorching, at the hand of Elijah.

A victory so significant that I was rewarded caused the Maccabi management to take a step.

Maybe for the general public Maccabi has long been non-Maccabi, Shimon has been less cruel than in the past, the players are changing, the management is apathetic - but for Hapoel fans, Maccabi-Sal is still a symbol of evil.

It is what defines them, the one that makes them feel special, a warlike and proud opposition, knocking out the rich.

For a moment they feel it's worth it all.

Their joy was so great, that it also boiled the blood of Maccabi fans who have long been apathetic to the basketball team, but allergic to reds rejoice.

Jacoben Brown would pass by them on the street, and they would not recognize him.

It's the red friend from third grade who drives them crazy.

The losses of Maccabi and Hapoel later this week only illustrated the intensity of the derbies.

Maccabi lost in the Netherlands to Eindhoven after another weak game, after a golden festival, after long days of gestures of admiration for a secondary player at PSV who did not leave a special impression, and everything seemed marginal and small, negligible after the urban battles.

Hapoel lost in the final to Herzliya and missed a title, and although it experienced a painful moment, it will not be able to erase the victory in the semi-final, the pride in the real thing, in the only game that matters.

If you are anxious before the derby and do not fall asleep at night, this week has proved that it is very right (Photo: Danny Maron)

Sports fans can argue what Israel's big game is.

Is Maccabi Haifa against Maccabi Tel Aviv in football, maybe in the "Clásico" basketball (hah) is Maccabi Tel Aviv against Hapoel Jerusalem at all.

But for Tel Aviv fans, it doesn't really matter.

They do not care what people think outside.

They know when they are just excited before a game, and when they suffer from anxiety.

When is it important, and when is it a world in its entirety.

For them there is only one game that decides a season, defines a season, that is enacted in the head.

Therefore, these were days of war in Tel Aviv, no less.

Every victory was heroic, the pinnacle of ambition.

Every loss was scorching, unforgivable.

Two days of upheaval, with peaks of emotion alongside discouragement, pride and humiliation.

A week of insults and teasing, network quarrels, painful bites.

Days when reds and yellows realize that it is impossible to get rid of the bastards on the other side, that it is going to last forever.

There is something discouraging about a week like this, in life with victory alongside loss: a sense of frustration, dissatisfaction, restlessness.

Incessant noise.

Understanding that everything is temporary, temporary, fragile.

No bottom line, no decision, no submission.

They will always rise.

Adam tries to relish the victory, but in his head run pictures from the loss.

Not a harmony of yin and yang, but a nightmare.

The mature thing to do is to embrace the experience, understand that this is life and overall it was nice - but if we were adults, we would be somewhere else.

It is difficult to come to terms with such a reality, where a person knows that there is no estate, no end to the race, it is an eternal wheel, and soon there will be another derby.

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