Too many trees do not see the forest: Saturday summary and the involvement of the investigative company in the Premier League

The rude attempt of the Weizmann Forest men to enter Hadera's locker room only illustrated the association's need for tools that would deter criminals in Israeli football.

Ron Amikam concludes Saturday, including the fateful battle between the two teams with the largest number of home players in the league

Ron Amikam

01/05/2022

Sunday, May 01, 2022, 10:00 p.m.

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We ticked off: Today's Summary Clip, 1.5 (Sports 1)

1.

Next Sunday there will be a game of the season.

Not Maccabi Haifa-Maccabi Tel Aviv, not Maccabi Haifa-Hapoel Beer Sheva, but Hapoel Jerusalem-Maccabi Petah Tikva.

This game will take place in front of no more than 2,000 (and I'll large) spectators Teddy, but he will not only determine who to clone and who to grace, who to nationalize and who will stay in the Premier League, but will have to decide which blessed way to part.

There is a question situation between the two teams with the largest number of home players.

It may be that at one point or another MS Ashdod is challenging this determination - and its imminent victory in the national youth championship only reinforces this - but in recent years, Maccabi Petah Tikva has had the largest number of home players, and when Hapoel Jerusalem came up we were surprised to find another.

This is of course a matter of policy.

Hapoel Jerusalem has been stuck in the second youth league for years and it is possible - most likely - that it will remain there next season as well.

Still, the promotion of the senior team to the Premier League strengthened the connection between Hapoel Jerusalem and its youth department.

This concept is simple: if you do not have enough money to bring in tie-breaking players, and you have to settle for relatively mediocre players, it is better that you take those who grew up with you, who are identified with you, who will commit suicide for you.

Even Agada and Adley grew up with them in their youth.

In this matter, Hapoel Jerusalem is 3 points away from Maccabi Petah Tikva, on the eve of the game that determines between them, because it has someone to go to war with.

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The biggest game of the next round (Photo: Danny Maron)

And yet, even a draw next Sunday will not be enough for Hapoel Jerusalem to celebrate this small victory, because its goal difference is not good and it can go down in the last round.

And in this matter, she should be worried about Maccabi Petah Tikva's performance yesterday in Teddy.

True, it ended 2: 2 against a team that ended the season, and there were defensive players who looked like security cameras - cameras of everything, but do not prevent anything - but there were sparks of football, which is exactly what was not, or no longer is, Hapoel Haifa, The one that lost 7 points to Hapoel Jerusalem this season.

And how unfortunate that even after Hapoel Jerusalem wins, Ziv Arieh shifts the focus in his direction.

"There are a lot of people who do not like this club," he tossed at the end of the game and promised to expand at the end of the season.

Define a lot of people: Old Hapoel Jerusalem fans?

Betar Jerusalem? How much is it?

There is no reason not to love a club that this week celebrated the promotion of its women's team to the Premier League, which has probably the most extensive number of women in Israeli football, as well as activists in the neighborhood league, and of course other social activities.

Hapoel Jerusalem is a club that goes the opposite of Israeli football, and even in the face of this murky wave it leaves its head above water.

So what is Ziv Arieh talking about?

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The incident evaporated in a minute.

Glazer vs. Jury (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

2.

The VAR is another baby in terms of football history.

He was supposed to solve a lot of ambiguities and help the judges a lot.

In practice, and to prevent the flow of the game, it was decided that the VAR would only intervene in the event of a direct red or its cancellation, penalty, and goal clearance.

It's a lot and yet it's a little.

There are quite a few misjudgment decisions that become scandalous and there is no VAR to intervene in them.

One of them was in Sakhnin yesterday.

Dan Glazer slipped dangerously at the feet of Gabi Jury from Bnei Sakhnin, tripping him on the verge of an extension.

The failure was gross, and already in it Judge Erez Papir failed, who ignored it, or rather: did not see it.

This failure would have created a dangerous situation in favor of the people of Sakhnin and mainly would have required the issuance of a yellow to a glazer, in this case a second yellow and a red.

But the video judge has no ability to interfere with what is not in the open and what is not direct red and this whole incident evaporated within a minute.

In this case justice was done and Sakhnin won a game that could have won even earlier had it not been for Daniel Peretz, but imagine that Guy Melamed would not have scored a winning goal and Sakhnin would have found themselves without the two points that would have distinguished between fifth or sixth place in the summer Conference League?

Sakhnin defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv yesterday without a significant number of players, especially Biram Kiel, and with a sparse crowd in the stands.

That says a lot about Maccabi Tel Aviv and its season: too many mediocre players, too few reasonable defensive players.

0: 5 in the derby is nice, but someone has already said that it is better to win five games 0: 1 than one game 0: 5.

Well done for throwing the interrogator out of the locker room.

Menachem Koretzky (Photo: Danny Maron)

3.

Once, quite a few years ago, I met with Itzik Rat, the number 2 man in 'Civil Intelligence', and who was in charge of the company's investigative division.

When someone in the Football Association would say, "We passed the investigation to civilian intelligence," the initial connotation was NYPD.

A huge conference room, where all the interrogators gather and receive directions of interrogation, make surveillance, break into houses, conduct several interrogations in parallel and suspect suspects.

Rat poured cold water on my imaginary world.

"There's one researcher here, and I sometimes help him," I was amazed.

Civil intelligence was mainly concerned with securing facilities, not football investigations.

For the meager retainer that came from the Football Association each month, it was possible to employ one person.

This.

Weizmann-Yaar, too, is not some tough group of researchers.

This is a company whose name consists of the names Asher Weizmann and Doron Yaar, whose investigative company won a tender from the Football Association.

The tools of any investigative firm are limited.

This is not a police force, nor does it have law enforcement powers.

It is not possible to open an investigation independently unless a complaint has been received, it is not possible to summon an interrogation with a warning, and if a person does not appear for interrogation, the association prosecutor can at most take him to disciplinary court for failure to appear for interrogation.

And if there is already an offense - on the criminal level - the investigation must be immediately transferred to the Israel Police, which is known for its contempt for everything related to investigations in the field of football.

This is the reason why Israeli football has a strong involvement of the underworld and no investigation is underway on the subject.

An investigative company may come up with a fake player in children B, but the chance that you will find proof of bias in game results depends entirely on the evidence that will be passed to it ahead of time.

Therefore, the request of a Weizmann-Yaar researcher to enter Hapoel Hadera's locker room yesterday and talk to the players - what, a warning call or a motivational call?

Limitation on impudence, not to mention trespassing.

And it's good that Menachem Koretzky threw the researcher away.

An Weizmann-Yaar investigator should investigate the possibility of speaking an offense, not hold warning conversations with players who do not receive a salary from him, and he has no criminal responsibility towards them.

It is time for the Football Association to invest much more money - a million shekels a year will also be enough - to find effective and, above all, more discreet investigative factors that will go into the depths of Israeli football.

Right now, there is nothing to deter the criminals sitting on the fence.

You will learn from his misses.

Omar Padida (Photo: Danny Maron)

And in the cliché

corner today: "The Galilee landscape has the more comfortable games left against teams that have already finished the season."

When a team that has practically finished the season has to show up for its Garbage Time games, two things happen: 1. It involves bench players and youth players who want to prove that they are also football players.

2. She plays loose football.

Its purpose is to enjoy the game.

A bottom team that comes into the game against such a team, and needs all 3 points, must tire the other team the game, take it out of the comfort zone, drag it into its mud fights.

Hapoel Nof Hagalil, in the way it plays - football - can dismantle Maccabi Petah Tikva, a pressured rival like itself, but in front of a team that comes to enjoy, it turns out how mediocre it is.

The misses of Omar Padida - an excellent national league player - compared to the abilities of Maxim Flakushchenko or Shoval Gozlan, only emphasize the fact that beautiful football is also a beautiful way to die beautiful.

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