Always with you everywhere: Avi Nemani, the great yellow symbol, celebrates 50
The king and messiah of Maccabi Tel Aviv, who returned to his lap even after he was expelled, wins world fame and forgiveness from the fans for everything, even for matching players to an opponent as an agent.
He may not have been the finest virtuoso, but in Israeli football he was not a great leader like the legend in yellow
Ron Amikam
26/04/2022
Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 1:00 p.m.
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The farewell of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Avi Nemani (Amir Lev)
In March 2001, the Israeli team went to Austria, which then counted seats for Jorg Haider, and expected revenge for the 0-5 two years earlier in Ramat Gan.
Coach Richard Nielsen brought Alon Mizrahi back to the squad, then at Betar Jerusalem, but the day before the game he trained Avi Nemani as a lone striker. It sounds like a blasphemy at the time, but when you look at the career of Avi Nemani - who is celebrating his 50th birthday today, it is hard to believe - it is impossible not to agree with the late Danish coach.
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Captivating composure.
Nemani (Photo: Maariv, Danny Maron)
Nemanji finished his career with 194 goals.
There is no connection in Israel - and Nemani is a connection that was occasionally defined as 50/50, and was placed next to Tal Benin in the back link of Maccabi Tel Aviv - who scored so many goals, 12 less than Alon Mizrahi, only 12. Nemani's ability to find areas in the crowded squares, Also to get to them, to control them, to arrange the kicking situation for himself and launch an arrow into the net from there - was wonderful.
The relatively older ones among us, who have experienced most of the evolution of cellular devices, probably remember the game "Snake".
More than once Nemanji's movement in the plaza reminded me of the movement of the snake on the screen.
Even at the age of 19 and a half, in his breakthrough season and Maccabi Tel Aviv's return season to the lap of the decorated clubs, Nemanji played exactly the same as he did at the age of 36. His composure was debilitating. To send the ball there, he was unlucky and was born a few weeks apart from Eyal Berkovich and Chaim Revivo, and for many years he waged a presence battle on their slots, which was useless in many cases. More than Nemanji was a slow pseudo, but Nemanji was no less effective, and perhaps even more so.
Successful link collaboration.
Nemani and Benin (Photo: Maariv, Avi Ohayon)
Nielsen thought everyone could play together, even at the expense of a natural striker, most coaches thought three ties of this kind would step on each other’s prominence.
Increased to do Avraham Grant who simply left the arena to Nemanji alone, precisely in the years when Maccabi Haifa dominated Israeli football.
Grant saw Benmani - in fact since the beginning of both of their careers - as their leader, as the debilitating composure, as the mental strength that everyone sought in Israeli football.
Many are enthusiastic about the most successful campaign of the Israeli team in Europe - the one that ended without a loss even if without a victory over one of the big teams - as a campaign of Yossi Benyon, then at its peak, but it was a campaign led by Avi Nemani, who was already advanced with understandable limitations.
Nemanji broke the glass ceiling of the away games in Cyprus, Nemanji scored in Ireland in the heroic draw that is remembered mainly because of the two tampons stuck in Dudu Awat's nostrils.
When Nir Klinger said "Avi Nemani is the king", after benching him for a long time, and returning him to save the championship fight in 2003, it was not a lip service, he was not forced to do so.
It was an instinctive reaction from a coach who thought the dependence on one player was too great, and he was wrong.
Led the team's campaign.
I belong to Benyon (Photo: GettyImages, Ian Walton)
Nemani was the king of Israeli football.
His short and unsuccessful episodes in two major leagues - La Liga and the Premier League - have shown that what can be done in the country in athletically limited football, cannot be done intensely there.
In Europe, Revivo and Berkowitz's frenzy played a role compared to Nemanji's slow and calculated play.
Increased to do Atletico Madrid fans who called themselves "Tortuga" (turtle).
The fact that Nemanji always returned to the same place, even after being expelled from Maccabi Tel Aviv - in a combined action of Nir Klinger and Lonnie Hercikovich - bought his place in the private Hall of Fame of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, even if it denied him the right to participate in the first Champions League campaign. The club.
They forgave him for everything.
His status among the fans is equivalent to the status of Benjamin Netanyahu in very large strata of the population.
In their view, even if he occasionally took advantage of his position, his specific weight prevailed.
He had - and perhaps still has - the status of a Messiah, of an unshakable symbol.
When he arrived at Betar Jerusalem - a group that often suffered a leg injury - he was received there in the status of Ohana and Melmillian, no less.
The largest yellow symbol.
Nemani (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
Even if we argue about his place among the stars of Maccabi Tel Aviv - before or after Shia Glazer, Giora Spiegel or Eran Zehavi - it will not be possible to take his place as the great symbol of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Even Hapoel Tel Aviv fans gave him a mythical status in the well-known abusive song: "Number 1 is German, number 2 is German ... number 8 is Achushermota German."
This, of course, did not prevent Agent Avi Nemani from behaving, elegantly and gentlemanly, in front of the heads of Hapoel Tel Aviv when he matched them with players. Maccabi fans forgave him for that
as well. 50, as a player agent and commentator, in a position less than what characterized him as a player, it is harder to admire the character, but it can not be forgotten: Avi Nemani was one of the greatest footballers in Israel, one who could expect him to do what it takes, even in the most difficult minutes. He may not have been the first in entertainment, but he was certainly the first in satisfaction.
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