On April 13, 2012, Mitch Goldhaar appointed Jordi Cruyff as the professional manager of Maccabi Tel Aviv and already in his first season (12/13) Maccabi Tel Aviv lifted the championship plate.
Nearly a decade after the same decision, 10 championship plates were distributed, half to Maccabi Tel Aviv (four different coaches) and the other half to Barak Bachar (in two different teams).
Barak Bachar came to BS after the Reds from the Negev marched 40 years in the desert without a plate and won three championships in a row when the first championship came at the expense of the best runner-up who was here with Cruyff as manager, Peter Boss on the lines and Eran Zehavi in a record-breaking season.
Last season, Bachar managed to march Haifa to the championship after a difficult decade in which Yankele Shachar tried his best to return the plate to Carmel without success.
This season, Bachar has managed to beat the well-known global cliché that states that it is difficult to take a championship and even more difficult to maintain it.
Bachar managed a very high quality staff but with a lot of problems.
He coped great with the injury and decline in captain Neta Lavi's ability, reinvented Sean Goldberg and made him the best Israeli stopper in the league, found various solutions to weakness in the defensive positions (Jose Rodriguez), upgraded Noble Omar in the first 20 rounds and put golden numbers and managed to find solutions When Noble faded in the final third of the season.
For Bachar, there is only one barrier he has not broken in our football - the home stage of the Champions League and this is probably his biggest task next season.
Barak Bachar.
Next checkpoint: The home stage of the Champions League, Photo: Alan Schieber
Although Maccabi Haifa has been enjoying its championship for the last third of the season, it is one of the most justified champions to have been here.
She scored the most (23 more goals than her runner-up, 14 more than the second in the category, Maccabi Tel Aviv), absorbed the least, won the most, lost the least, won the Champions and Toto Cup and reached the Cup final and she did it all when she too Reaches European home stage.
Haifa's attack was two levels above the league in every parameter - Noble, player of the season without competition, he is the king of goals and cooks, Dean David his deputy in goals and Sherry in cooking, Noble and Sherry threatened the goal the most and three players in green (Noble, Sherry and Haziza) at the top of the key dedication table (Attempts and success).
The best team in the league by a margin.
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King of Gates and Cooking, Photo: Alan Schieber
If Bachar and Haifa also manage to lift the trophy, this season will be remembered as one of the dominations ever of an Israeli team.
It is always possible to attribute the absolute dominance of a team to the inability of its rivals, but that would not be fair to Haifa.
Alona went all in this season in the WC, Mitch's Maccabi Tel Aviv is always difficult to subdue and at the end of the day Maccabi Haifa took all the cash.
And something else small.
After years that Haifa lost mainly in management, this season is the only team in the top playoff that did not change coach, whose professional manager only dealt with management and did not go down to the lines, prepared the right and early for the season and made the right moves in January.
And as we see everywhere, with good training you reach the top, add to that proper management, take championships.
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