"I could not fall asleep after this game, I was depressed"

Nearly 40 years after Gili Landau's goal, Moshe Marcus still remembers his most painful moment in his career, but despite the club's "bad decade" he had unforgettable moments.

The concussions ("I almost moved to Hapoel") The injuries and the highs - the former goalkeeper of Maccabi Tel Aviv talks about everything

Asher Goldberg

03/03/2022

Thursday, 03 March 2022, 17:51 Updated: 18:12

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"Almost 40 years have passed and this game is still burning in me. Everyone is talking about Gili Landau's goal over Avi Cohen, but in that early move there was another clear touch by Landau, after my dismissal kick, when I went outside the box to keep away from a Sinai pass. The kick went Towards the body of Gili, who with his left hand pushed the ball arc over me, a spinning ball, went up towards the goal and then he touched the hand again and put it in. Today, with the VAR, such a thing would not pass in life. I could not sleep after the game, there was depression "In general, it is impossible to explain what happened to me and the other players. The body felt sick, heavy, as if with 15 extra kilos on me."

The speaker is Moshe Marcus, the goalkeeper of Maccabi Tel Aviv in the 80s, the "bad decade" of the club, but also one who had achievements.

For example, in the summer of 1988, just one month after the 10: 0 in Haifa (a game in which he did not stand in the goal) the circle closed.

Again a final, again a derby - this time Maccabi wins.

"There was an opposite feeling from that final with Landau's hands. Thousands of fans accompanied our bus. The excitement was immense, even though the team had won the trophy a year before."

Marcus, 61, is currently a partner in a school buffet business together with the grandson of Shia Glazer, the legendary striker of Maccabi Tel Aviv, and also serves as the goalkeeping coach of Jeremiah Holon in the first division and in the youth department of Maccabi Ashdod, Adli's older brother, CEO. To the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team. "As a child, I liked to jump for every ball," he says, "only the goalkeeper's position attracted me, in the public parks and in the backyard of the Tel Nordoi school.

At the age of 10, I came to Maccabi Tel Aviv, in the group with me were Roni Tzemach, Pini Drori, Rico Shirzi and Raviv Sapir, who previously owned Hapoel Rishon Lezion. "

At the age of 16 and a half, he already received the goalkeeper's jersey." Ali with coach Yaakov Grundman.

Until then, I think there was no goalkeeper at that age in the senior team.

I have played the last seven games in place of Yosef Surinov.

My first game was in a 0: 5 victory over Hapoel Acre, then 0: 0 against Hapoel Tel Aviv.

"It was a disappointment, because Maccabi Tel Aviv signed Mano Schwartz and brought in Avi Sasson. I was kind of a third goalkeeper in training and a player in our youth team."

Started at a very very young age.

Marcus in coaching Maccabi Tel Aviv in the late 1970s (Photo: Maariv, Adi Avishai)

Schwartz remained the first goalkeeper, but Marcus was a partner in the 1978/9 championship with Nissim Bachar.

"It was an excellent season and a championship title after a huge battle against Betar Jerusalem, which finished in second place and also won the state cup.

At the same time, I really enjoyed winning the championship in the youth league. "

" By Ginzburg.

The ball rolled without the reaction of referee Zvi Sharir and Haifa scored from the feet of Moshe Selector.

It is clear to me that Sharir did not make a mistake on purpose, but the game was dragged to penalties and in the end we won. " Then came that

in the final and the loss from the most controversial goal in the history of Israeli football.

"Then the rivalry was deeper between Maccabi and Hapoel," Marcus explains. Without the ability to stop the ball. "

Told him to play with one hand.

Marcus with Nissim Bachar (Photo: Maariv, Adi Avishai)

The following season, Marcus was loaned to Maccabi Petah Tikva.

"An atmosphere was created that did not suit me or Maccabi Tel Aviv. Coach Itzik Schneur was appointed to return Ginzburg from Maccabi Petah Tikva, who was there on loan. I played in Petah Tikva for two years."

"A great time under coach Moshe Meiri. Special players like Doron Robinson, Oded and Gad Makhanes, Perslani, Nissim Barda, Eyal Bglibter, Gadi Ben Dror, Menashe Nuriel and Elisha Levy and others. We missed the Cup final in 1985 after a dramatic 3: 3 draw Extra time and penalties against Betar Jerusalem.

In the 86/7 season, a conflict arose between Marcus and the new chairman, Danny Laufer.

I had a three-year contract and led a move for a release in a civil court.

I was loaned to Hapoel Jerusalem for the last six months in the league under Shia Feigenbaum.

The team has failed in the last two games against Tzafririm Holon and Maccabi Sha'arim and did not advance to the league.

The cries and tears in Hapoel Jerusalem's locker room, on the field in Rehovot, were plays that are not easily forgotten because a draw was enough for promotion to the league. "

"The move to Hapoel Tel Aviv was very topical and advanced, and there was an offer from Bnei Nehemia to sign in Betar.

These were the days of pre-player agents, the centers determined.

The Maccabi Center stopped my transfers to Hapoel Tel Aviv and then to the house "

Beautiful days alongside disappointments.

Marcus in the derby (Photo: Maariv, Adi Avishai)

Suffered full of minor injuries throughout his career.

"Lots. Injuries to the hands, shoulder and every part of the body. I would come up in many games with anesthetic injections because I did not agree to give up, or the coaches needed me between the beams. An example of my injury was in release training, In the 1989/90 season, there were four fascinating games against Yitzhak Shom's Betar Tel Aviv, two of which ended in a draw, 3: 3, the first after we were led 1: 3 in the final minutes and the second after they led 0: 3 in the half. .

At first I had a shoulder problem, and by mistake Dr. Nissim gave me a shot that put my hand to sleep.

When I told coach Nissim Bachar that I only function with one hand, he replied that I could play as well.

I got an equalizer before the end from Kobi Segal, but I couldn't catch the ball from the corner. "

At 0:10 in Haifa, he did not play.

He saw the humiliation from the bench.

"I injured my shoulder in the quarterfinal game of the Cup in the victory over Hapoel Beer Sheva 0: 1. I could not recover until Saturday and it was decided by Giora Spiegel that I would sit on the bench and the goalkeeper would be with me Aricha.

It was a game in the bottom playoffs, really hallucinatory.

"Such a scenario happens once in a hundred or a thousand years and will not happen again in the future for Maccabi Tel Aviv."

Maccabi Tel Aviv brought him in - and Marcus' episode is over.

Obarov (Photo: Maariv, Adi Avishai)

At the end of the 1990/1 season, Avraham Grant arrived in Kiryat Shalom.

It was also the end of Marcus' path at the club where he grew up.

"My contract ended, I had a shoulder injury and Grant has already initiated a move to bring in Alexander Obarov, a Dinamo Moscow goalkeeper and Soviet team. I left for Nes Ziona, played for Maccabi Yavneh under Avi Cohen and continued for teams in the lower leagues."

Despite the upheavals, he is not being monitored for his parent club.

"It's a huge, unusual, powerful club. At Maccabi Tel Aviv I reached my heights, it flows in my mind and body."

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