Time to mature: The success of the young team will lead to the advancement of the adult
The role of the young woman is to provide players for the senior, but a country like Israel does not have the luxury of giving up an opportunity to advance to the young Euros.
Inbal Manor on the role models for Alon Hazan's team and Guy Luzon's prophecy of rage
Inbal Manor
24/03/2022
Thursday, March 24, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
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The players of the young team are talking ahead of the game against Germany (Football Association)
June 11, 2013. Teddy Stadium.
The young Israeli team said goodbye to the home team with an impressive, but also one that did not determine anything, against England.
Coach Guy Luzon arrived loaded at the press conference.
A few minutes earlier, when Ophir Krieff had scored the winning goal, Luzon was celebrating in extreme madness even for an emotional man like him.
He went through difficult days of slander and criticism, mainly against the background of the announcement that he will leave for Standard Liege after the tournament and the 4-0 defeat to Italy.
He was charged and agitated and when Luzon was charged and agitated, he fired unconsciously.
"All along I have said that we are in the third tier of Europe, we have passed Germany, England and Russia - it is something that does not happen even checked. It will not happen in another 20 years, they will let me know when it happens. More than that, even when I die it will not happen. "My kids. I'm a brat I lost to a team like Italy, it will not happen again," he said mockingly.
Nine years later, the young team faces two critical games against Poland and Germany that could bring it closer to qualifying for the Euros.
Luzon, by the way, refused this week at the request of journalists to be interviewed.
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Guy Luzon summarizes the appearance of the young team in Euro 2013 (Photo and video editing: Kobi Eliyahu)
After six rounds at home, Israel is ranked second with five wins, including over Poland away, and a lone loss to Germany.
The Germans have the same balance after a 4-0 home defeat to Poland.
Nine home winners and two best runners-up will qualify directly for the tournament to be held in 2023 in Georgia and Romania.
Israel, following Russia's suspension, is currently the best runner-up.
In a rough estimate, four points from two games in the next five days, plus a victory in Latvia in June, will bring Alon Hazan's team very close to a third immigration in history to the young Euros.
Hazan, Yossi Benyon and members of the association put the illegal immigration to the euro as a top goal, which of course ignited the ancient discussion about the priorities between the young and the old.
As far as Benyon and the heads of the association are concerned, there is no question at all and this is where the Daniel Peretz affair was born.
A rise in the euro precedes all.
Hazan's motivational speech to the players also reflected the mood: "Everything you do from now until the end of the games can decide not only the future of Israeli football and your future, but also the future of the country, but for that you have to continue on our path."
exaggerated?
Maybe, but that's exactly what the association thinks.
A rise in euros is worth a lot to the future of Israeli football.
It is said there that the road to immigration with the team for a big tournament begins with reaching the young Euros next year.
Seemingly, this is a logical and correct decision.
When you put on the scales an opportunity to rise to the Euro against two training games under a temporary coach, it is easy to understand where the weight is.
On the other hand, it is a decision that contradicts the basic goal of any young team or youth team or reserve team in the world - to provide players for the first team.
In March 2021 the young England competed in the home stage of the Euro, while the senior team had unimportant games in the World Cup qualifiers after securing a place in the World Cup.
Despite this, Jude Bellingham, Mason Mount, Jadon Sancho, Phil Foden and Trent Alexander Arnold remained on Gareth Southgate's senior roster.
"Do not work on developing young players if you think your job is to win every game and not produce players for the senior team," then-young coach Edie Butroid defended the decision.
"Players get older and get on a fast track. That's how it works. That's the right way. Who would you like to see celebrating in an open bus: the youngest or the older? Obviously you're the older. In the end, we're here to support them."
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Bothroid, who did not pass the home stage and also paid for his job after the tournament, defined the role of the young team coach as downright impossible.
"If we say that the job of England coach is impossible, then the job of coach of the young team is clearly impossible. The reason is the amount of players we are supposed to produce the amount of players for the senior team and also expect us to win. That we would like - because our main goal is to bring players to Southgate.
"You can imagine a reserve team coach knocking on the senior coach's door and telling him, 'Listen boss, I think today you have to give me your best player to win the reserve championship.'
"The only one who has to win is the senior team. Wins, losses and even distress - it's all part of the process. Younger players come in their place. It's a spinning wheel. If someone hides players and doesn't let them progress, it means the system is broken. I will not cry and defend myself. These are facts and that's the job. "
There is a built-in problem here.
When we talk about a team up to the age of 21, we mean the beginning of the campaign.
When it comes to the Euro itself, some of the players have already crossed 23 - and it's not really "young" anymore.
Good and talented players at the age of 23 are already passing through the world in the millions, starring in the Champions League and of course belonging to the senior squad.
Want to say that at the international level, the young team is a transit station that not everyone needs.
If you broke out at a young age, you have nothing to linger on the way.
Therefore, in the top football countries in the world, the dilemma is almost non-existent.
Only that Israel is not England, not Spain and not Germany.
Israel does not have the luxury of "giving up" an opportunity, as created by Hazan's team.
Even the association understands that the way to connect the senior team to the people, to take down the negativity after decades of disappointments, to get on the right path of promotion, goes through a picture of victory in the young team.
In this context, the correct comparison is not to England, but to countries where success in the junior team has spawned success in the senior team.
The skeleton of Euro 2017 raised them to Euro 2020. Macedonia players (Photo: Reuters)
Northern Macedonia is a much better source of comparison.
Belgoya Milevsky, a former player and coach of Ashdod, led the young Macedonia to Euro 2017. This skeleton helped the Macedonians qualify for the last Euro through the League of Nations and a performance in the World Cup qualifiers - achievements that Israel dreams of.
"The rise to the Euros was considered a huge breakthrough for our football," local journalist Igor Panevsky explained to the UEFA website before the Euros. "10 players from that team are now on the senior squad for the Euros."
There are more examples.
Young Greece was last in the Euros in 2002, two years before astonishing the continent in the senior tournament.
Poland hosted the tournament in 2017 and returned to it two years later as the senior became a more significant force.
Serbia is also an inspiring story.
In the early 2000s, the number of children attracted to football in Serbia decreased.
Football has become the fourth sport in popularity level after basketball, volleyball and tennis.
The association launched a national campaign "My school - my team" and held football tournaments in primary schools, from where the talents were drawn.
In addition, the association signed cooperation agreements with the Spanish association and drew quite a bit of inspiration from frequent visits to the associations' academies in Italy and France.
In 2011, the "football house" was built in Stara Pazova, which has been used by national teams since the age of 11. "The heavy investment in youth promotion programs was the right decision," said former young national team coach Radovan Curchic.
"We can not compete in the big nations, but Stara Pazova has given us the opportunity to work with all the amazing talent we have and educate coaches. There are a lot of people involved and a lot of enthusiasm."
The Serbian team qualified for the World Cup twice in a row, with its golden generation built through winning the World Cup up to the age of 20 in 2015 and the European Under-19 Championship two years earlier.
Now, there will come those who will say and rightly so: 'Hey, but we have already gone up to the young Euros twice and we have not seen a change'.
That Luzon team, whose players played around 30 today, has met its goals both in the tournament itself and in terms of advancing players to senior.
Eli Desa, Ofir Davidzada, Nir Bitton, Eyal Golsa and Monas Dabour then played in the home Euro.
Also Taleb Tuatha and Omri Ben Harush who have been an integral part of the senior team for years.
And take another statistic, the 12 staff players in the same tournament, over 50 percent, moved on at such another stage of their careers to play outside of Israel.
In this context, even if his prophecy did not come true.
Luzon can mark V.
Now it's Hazan's turn.
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