Even before the ink dried on the sports sites that reported the appointment of Alon Hazan as the national team coach, I did what I do not usually do, and went down to the bottom of the talkbacks.
As usual I found poison there in commercial quantities, with the words that were repeated there being "combina" and "puppet of a building."
It does not matter who will coach the team - in today's Israel, even one person will not be able to reach an agreement with himself, so whoever was chosen - he would win the regular Zobor ceremony, from those who really think a national coach determines the quality of the team here.
Israel is currently celebrating 30 years of acclimatization on the European continent.
The bottom line is that this is a resounding failure, we are one of the teams that made the least progress compared to others, those who in those days were even cannon fodder compared to us - but took matters into their own hands, invested capital in human and physical infrastructure and progressed. On average.
When Hazan was a student at a school, the journey from his home to school lasted about 20 minutes of walking, and in those moments Hazan imagined himself scoring a goal in the team uniform and running to the crowd.
This Ashdodite supported Maccabi Netanya and admired Oded Makhanes, and when he marked himself as a player in the box, the Minister of History moved him to Hapoel Petah Tikva of Giora Spiegel and Abram Grant.
This week, 30 years ago, he took a trophy in Petah Tikva, and immediately after the game he hurried to the field and flew for a month-long trip to the United States, when he landed back in Israel he was already a player at Maccabi Haifa.
The cantor had an orderly playing career that reached as far as Watford, and his national coaching career has now reached its peak.
By and large, after many years, the association stopped building towers in the air and thought that Jürgen Klopp or Yogi Lev would bring us to a big tournament, they have every reason not to come here.
And the association can not bring anyone here without opening its pocket to public money, and rightly so.
Hazan is an appointment at eye level and at selected height.
The Israeli team is neither a big story nor an important story, so a cantor can be tailor-made for it.
He knows her, and she's him.
Hazan was perceived as an editor, loyal and not centralized.
In today's Israel, such a figure is considered a "doll", although in Europe it is customary for a senior coach to surround himself with consultants and listen to them.
The reality here has accustomed us to drama in all areas of our lives, it is better for the Israeli team not to make a drama of itself, so Alon Hazan is fine.
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