For the first time in the Knesset, a discussion was held this week on the status of the Israeli coach in the subcommittee headed by MK Simon Davidson.
The discussion discussed the coach's situation in Israel as well as the situation of the various sports associations, some of which have difficulty obtaining budgets, which directly affects the coach's status, salary and work and has a direct impact on athletes, especially teenagers, who are the future of Israeli sports.
Davidson said at the committee: 'When I talk about coaches, I'm going to speak from a personal point of view.
All my life I was a coach, 23 years.
Admittedly I was a swimming coach and not a footballer but I experienced the whole issue of coaching status on my flesh.
I came to be the coach of the Israeli team, the coach was the thing I enjoyed doing the most but I had to stop because I felt that the system did not support me.
Everywhere in the world, this respect that the coach receives, causes him to continue to be a coach.
Unfortunately, we are not close to that in the State of Israel.
The coach is also the psychologist, also the mother and father of the athletes, the coach is the basis for everything.
"Today we will start a process at the end of which I want to achieve 3 points. The first is strengthening the status of the coach, the second, regulating the issue of the deal and the third point is the issue of knowledge and training."
The chairman of the Israel Football Coaches Association and the esteemed former coach Nissim Bachar said: "The coach is the most important personality of the child.
The salary of a children's coach in the periphery can be either 1500 or 200 NIS and not much remains of this due to tax adjustments.
Even if a kid comes to the club at age 8 and leaves at age 18, without being a player, he will turn out to be an excellent soldier.
good person.
Coaches are so important. '
Uri Shachuri, CEO of the Association of Coaches and Basketball Coaches: "A coach is not a profession, our percentage of jobs is zero. It is eight hours of work, to hold a job we must take several teams, run from team to team, that's how we lose the players, the children. "Summer basketball coaches are going to sign unemployment for two months. The fact that we are doing a holy work does not mean that we should not be paid. We should be paid for training hours. There is no budget control."
At the end of the debate, MK Simon Davidson addressed the Ministry of Sports and demanded that the coaches' organizations receive a budget for the first time, as well as requiring the coaches to be employed for 12 months. "The coaches are not a shadow.
Without the coaches, there are no athletes. '
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