When Bajo tripped Nemanji and Traptoni he became enthusiastic about Zohar: today 30 years ago

Even before her visits to Israel as part of the Champions League, Juventus landed here in 1992 for a strange showdown, in which Eli Ohana, the stars of Hapoel Petah Tikva and Magen Hapoel Tel Aviv wore the Maccabi Tel Aviv uniform

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17/03/2022

Thursday, March 17, 2022, 4:45 p.m.

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Summary: Hapoel Hadera - Maccabi Tel Aviv 2: 0 (Sport 1)

Juventus are busy today (Thursday) collecting the fragments after another relegation from the Champions League, for the third time in a row in the quarterfinals, by a team inferior to it.

On that date 30 years ago, on March 17, 1992, the old lady was in the middle of a strange visit to Israel.

Long before the meetings with Maccabi Tel Aviv (2004) and Maccabi Haifa (2009) in the Champions League, Juventus was invited to a showcase game in 1992, as part of the selection ceremony for the outstanding player of the regular season in the national league (first then).

The Empire from Turin was supposed to meet the Israeli team, but when it landed in the Holy Land, it revealed that it would play in front of the league leader Maccabi Tel Aviv.

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Conquered at Ramat Gan Stadium.

Roberto Baggio with Toto Skylachi (Photo: GettyImages, Alessandro Sabattini)

The Italians resented the change and to reassure them it was made clear to them that they would meet the "league star team".

In practice, it was Maccabi Tel Aviv reinforced by five players - Eli Ohana (Betar Jerusalem, then in the national league), Alon Hazan, Nir Levin and Rafi Cohen the goalkeeper (Hapoel Petah Tikva) and Ahmad Musa (Hapoel Tel Aviv) - who also made an extensive rotation to Not to endanger players before the start of the top playoffs. This improvisation probably did not run the crowd either, as only 17,000 spectators bothered themselves to the Ramat Gan stadium

. Greater Milan Coach Giovanni Trapattoni celebrated his 53rd birthday in Tel Aviv, promised to present his strongest line-up and did so, expecting a Marseille-style show that had visited the country about two months earlier and defeated the Jerusalem team 2: 5 in the Teddy Stadium inauguration game.

The opening of the game gave a feeling that this was indeed what it would be, and already in the fifth minute Toto Skilachi subdued Alexander Obarov.

One of the heroes of the Italian national team in the 90 'World Cup was stopped twice in the crossbar and so was Paulo Di Canio, until superstar Roberto Baggio came and spun a free kick into the net in the 31st minute.

Four minutes later, the same Bajo tripped Avi Nemani doubt in the extension, and the player selected as the outstanding player of the regular league took the penalty spot against Stefano Taconi and shrank to 2: 1.

Abraham Grant shared all of his players in the second half and in the last 20 minutes the crowd also began to abandon the stands.

Maccabi Tel Aviv continued to a championship that was interrupted by a long drought.

Avi is one of the celebrations in 1992 (Photo: Maariv, Adi Avishai, courtesy of the Maariv Archive)

For Maccabi Tel Aviv this was another preparation for the league and also a taste for the future to come, since in the summer of 1992 the Israeli teams entered the circle of UEFA plants. Juventus came for the money and were excited for the visit to Bethlehem. Itzik Zohar ("Great talent with very high personal technique, only success will not cross his mind") and also the one-time reinforcement from Hapoel Tel Aviv, defender Ahmad Musa ("I really liked No. 3").

Group compositions (Photo: screenshot,.)

Aside from compliments from Traptoni, Zohar also won the grand prize in the game - Baggio's shirt - and was inspired to return sharply to the top playoffs.

Together with Nemanji, Avi Cohen from Jerusalem, Eli Drix, Nir Klinger and the others, Maccabi Tel Aviv provided a dorsal playoff (seven wins, three draws and 28 goals) on the way to an impressive championship that interrupted in the form of 13 years.

And Juventus?

She settled for runners-up in the league and also lost in the Parma Cup final, but will always have Bethlehem.

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