Maccabi Haifa collects the fragments after last night's loss in the Hapoel B'Shlosha Cup final, after a penalty shootout. The champion was far from a penalty shootout from a historic season with four titles, but that did not happen in the end.
The players embraced at the end the third goalkeeper Roy Fox, who stood for 120 minutes and at the end also faced decisive kicks from the penalty spot.
"There were deductions in both the goal and the offense, but in the end we touched the trophy and did not take it," concluded one of the players.
Now, preparations for next season will officially begin.
The players will have two and a half weeks off and will return to training ahead of their Champions League qualifier.
During this time, professional manager Gal Alberman and coach Barak Bachar will try to build a different staff with quite a few changes.
Owner Yaakov Shachar set aside a sum of about 3 million euros for the purchase.
With this money, Haifa is looking for four new foreigners in the following positions: brake, foreign right, left defender and striker.
Rokavica.
Will he return to green ?, Photo: Alan Shiver
Defender Yinon Eliyahu may join as a staff player, while Nikita Rokavica is a candidate to return, although not in the position he had before he left for Hapoel B'Shlosha.
In the goalkeeper segment, Josh Cohen will be offered to continue with a two-year contract.
The club understands that it will be difficult to find an Israeli goalkeeper of his level, since the situation of foreigners is problematic as well.
At the same time, the Jewish-American goalkeeper expects a significant upgrade in his salary next season, after earning $ 140,000.
Regarding the connection Jose Rodriguez, in Haifa we will wait to see in the coming week how the citizenship process of Ali Muhammad is progressing.
The latter sang the anthem in the cup final last night and in Haifa are waiting for a decision from the Ministry of the Interior on his case.
If Muhammad becomes a citizen, the chances of Rodriguez remaining will increase.
Ali Muhammad.
Singing the Anthem, Photo: Alan Shiver
Haifa does not have much time to sink.
This evening, the group's official championship celebrations, organized by the Haifa Municipality, were planned in advance.
Among others, Sarit Hadad, Banya Braby, who wrote a championship song, and rapper Peled will perform.
All the players are expected to come to celebrate with the crowd, although the numbers will be significantly lower than if the team had fan a trophy last night.
Either way, the police estimate speaks of 15-20 thousand people arriving at Sami Ofer plaza in the evening.
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