Yeni: "Ronaldo asked why we came to destroy. When I explained, he smiled and said I was right"

In an event with Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, the captain recalled the team's meeting with Portugal: "It was difficult for him too."

On the Yellows: "As a kid I had no feelings for the club, in time it will be home"

Yaniv Tuchman

29/03/2022

Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 14:22

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Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Bnei Sakhnin 0: 0 (Sport 1)

While Maccabi Tel Aviv is preparing for the return of the Premier League this coming weekend, the yellow club took advantage of the national team break to hold a special panel for members of the "FOREVER" fan club.

Sharan Yeni and Idan Nachmias were guests, answered the fans' questions and told about their beginnings and the nature of the club.

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Grew up as a Yellows fan.

Nachmias (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

The brakeman Idan Nachmias fulfilled his dream this summer, when he moved from Kiryat Shmona to the same club as a child: "It's not just a dream of yours, but of everyone around you. It was my dad's biggest dream and he was excited when I signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv. When I'm in the gym I look "On the compound, I see the symbols around and realize that I am in Maccabi Tel Aviv. Until this year I had to be loyal to where I am, disconnecting from the environment, and now everything is floating. Everywhere I will give a thousand percent and fight for the whole ball, but now it's much more fun."

Compared to Nachmias, Sharan Yeni did not have a direct connection to football in his youth.

His father, the late singer Lior Yeni, was not particularly interested in the industry: "I had no feelings for Maccabi Tel Aviv when I grew up, in time it became my home.

My feeling is very strong, no less than someone who grew up as a fan of the team. "

Surprising conversation.

Yeni vs. Ronaldo (Photo: Reuters)

The captain also referred to the image of the Yellows, and that they are sometimes accused of arrogance and arrogance: "It is important to characterize us that we are a real team that comes to work. We are perceived as arrogant because of our past, we are not interviewed arrogant. "It's great as long as it stays within the group. When you talk like that outwardly it's arrogance. It's not that you should not think that way, but that you should not behave that way."

The former Israeli national team player was asked who the toughest player he faced in his career was, and he took the opportunity to reveal a spicy story from the meeting against the Portuguese national team and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2013.

"Ronaldo also had a hard time, I wonder if he remembers me," Jinny joked, "We played very defensively, there was a moment when Ronaldo asked me why we play disgusting and come to destroy, why we do not want to have fun. And faster than us, if we play open nobs.

In the list of players against whom Yeni had a hard time, he also mentioned Eden Hazard, Kevin de Bruyne, Karim Benzema, Romulo Lukaku, Andrei Shevchenko, Andrei Yarmolenko, Josip Ilicic and Hakim Zeish.

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