"Betar's disregard hurt me"
Yitzhak Jano hoisted two trophies in Betar Jerusalem. In an interview, he talks about the transfer from Hapoel, the injuries ("I have 80 percent disability") and the game in which a soldier stopped Roni Calderon's ball. He was injured by the club: And did not return to me.
I'm not coming to games since "
Asher Goldberg
26/05/2022
Thursday, May 26, 2022, 4:47 p.m.
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"In the last two years, I have not been to Betar Jerusalem's games anymore.
Two years ago I applied once to the club and asked for an invitation card to the booth at Teddy Stadium.
They promised me to check and come back with an answer.
A negative answer is also an answer, but to this day they have not come back to me.
Ask Eli Ohana if he knows the request.
Where was he?
Since then I do not go anymore.
It hurts a lot, but you learn something new from everything. "
Yitzhak Jano is injured. The former captain of Betar Jerusalem in the 1970s is disappointed with the club.
"I'm Yitzhak Jano, I played for Betar for 15 years, I have over 400 appearances in the league and in the state cup.
I was the club captain and waved two state trophies.
How do you make such a move in front of me?
It hurts a lot. "
When he says" it hurts me, "he does not mean just the soul." I have an 80 percent disability.
Platinums on both legs, I replaced two hip joints from the erosion as a Betar Jerusalem player.
Badly offended.
Jano (Photo: Maariv, Reuven Castro)
Jano was born on April 24, 1954 in Jerusalem, managed a sports department in the town of Ma'ale Adumim and was employed in the education system as a graduate of the Wingate Institute.
"I grew up on Ethiopia Street near Musrara, where the majority were Betar Jerusalem fans.
I chose to play for Hapoel Jerusalem, which was then an empire compared to Betar, which was just another team. I liked going to Hapoel Jerusalem training and games, seeing Eli Ben Rimoz. From there I came to a coach named Leon who came from Poland and coached at Betar Jerusalem.
Leon promoted me to the youth, and after only one year coach Samuel Reznik, told me 'come on graduates.'
He started playing as a midfielder, but very quickly turned to the brake position: Done by Shimon Chernuha helped me become a brake alongside Udi 'Hamudi' Robovich '
Tell about the game in Bloomfield against Hapoel Tel Aviv, Roni Calderon and the soldier who prevented the ball from entering the net.
"It was a very stressful season at the bottom. Hapoel Tel Aviv struggled and then won the 1968/69 championship. Calderon was at his peak at the time, one of the greatest I have seen. Towards the exposed net, but a soldier in an IDF uniform jumped from the fence of Gate 4 and stopped the ball before entering the net.
The referee of course did not approve a goal, this game was blown up later and we technically lost 3: 0 ".
One person at Hapoel Jerusalem has a warm corner in his heart - Eli Ben Rimoz.
"I admired Eli, a football genius, virtuoso and idol of Hapoel Jerusalem fans. In one of my first derbies between Betar and Hapoel, Eli really dumbfounded me and did everything he wanted on the field in the first half.
Halfway through the locker room the coach made it clear to me that if I did not play against Eli hard, he would continue to drive me crazy.
Already at the start of the second half I got to his feet with a strong glitch, clarifying intentions for the sequel.
Ben Rimoz understood the hint and preferred to keep his feet up.
"" What was that, a Jerusalem derby of the 1970s?
"The derby was political at the time, a game of the Labor Party against the Herut movement. We defeated Hapoel Jerusalem 1: 2 with a pair of goals by Haim Azulai. The fans swung us on their shoulders to the showers. The singing was 'but in the Histadrut'. "Players did not report for work after a loss."
"One day I was late for the bus to train boys at Hapoel Jerusalem and got shouted at by the coach. I took the personal file, ran away and came to a coach named Leon who came from Poland and coached at Betar Jerusalem." Jano (Photo: courtesy of the photographer)
In May 1975, he experienced great disappointment in the cup final against Hapoel Kfar Saba.
"We already had Melmillian, Neumann, Victor Levy Sabo and others at the beginning of the year for the next few years," he recalled. "
In this game, Menachem Begin visited the football stadium for the first time. At the end, he came to talk to the players at the Ramada Hotel." He, the leader of the Freedom Movement, modestly entered the field.
Fans recognized him and noise and excitement erupted among the 18,000 spectators at Bloomfield.
We disappointed Begin with a loss.
He later arrived at the Ramada Hotel in Tel Aviv.
"He greeted us and talked about Betarut, Zionism and Jabotinsky. Begin made it clear that in sports, once you win and once you lose, the victory will come."
You grew up in Hapoel, moved to Betar.
"I am on the side of the people and the State of Israel. Left and right really do not interest me, neither Bibi nor Bennett who are always temporary and can go. I want honest and reliable leadership, I have no interest at all, only good for the State of Israel. I could serve in the IDF in Schneller camp, open "To close a gate at the entrance. I am a patriot of the country, I did combat service, so did the reserve. There were times when Moshe Dadash would come to Gaza and take and return me before and after games."
"Jano broke his leg"
There is an opinion that you were a wild, uncompromisingly tough brake.
"I was a strong brake, with a quick exit in the first five meters. I was hardly sent off with a red card and no player was injured from me as many think. The football rules then were different, there was no VAR. My head game was great, with strong shoulders and I was not afraid of a striker. "An opponent. I had a hard time, especially against Vicky Peretz.
A year after the loss to Kfar Saba, his first trophy arrived.
"In the 1975/6 season, we were very close to a championship title, which we lost in the last round in a loss to Maccabi Tel Aviv 2: 0. In the semifinals we defeated Hapoel Kfar Saba, 0: 1. In the final, Maccabi Tel Aviv waited for us at Ramat Gan Stadium, with 50,000 spectators. With 55,000 fans, including Menachem Begin. After 1: 1 at the end of 90 minutes, the game dragged on. Maccabi Tel Aviv's pressure was heavy, but Melmillian's perfect free kick into Gideon Elran's net brought the trophy to Jerusalem. Stop the bus and dance on the roof. The biggest football celebration in Betar until then.
Three years later, again the final, again Maccabi Tel Aviv, again 1: 2 and again a trophy.
"In that season, the championship belonged to Maccabi Tel Aviv. We finished in second place in the table. We were led 0: 2 by Neumann and Avrahami. "To leave the 16th floor and together with goalkeeper Yossi Mizrahi, we returned to Jerusalem with the club's second trophy."
They were all his sons.
Rikan and Moyal (Photo: Niv Aharonson)
It was difficult for him to keep his place in the squad for such a long time.
"Many brakes who played alongside me came and went, like Avraham Lev, Luria, Karko, Yedid, Kirt, Menashe Cohen and others. I learned a lot from the great Uncle Karko, he was a front brake, I played back."
Has football arranged you financially?
"It was not bad and I have nothing to complain about. I have a lot of apartment thanks to the fact that I looked to the future. I invested in my studies, I did not go to gamble in the casino and I did not buy luxury cars."
Is considered the leading leader of the group.
Did you initiate the removal of chairman Amos Aharoni?
"I was definitely a leading figure in the team, the players were very important.
There was a bad conduct of Aharoni.
I organized a players' strike and we did not show up for training at the YMCA. The freedom movement in Jerusalem sent Yehoshua Matza, Aharoni finished his way and I was called the "gang leader."
The Betar episode ended under coach Eliyahu Ofer. "I was at a time when I lost the joy of the game that I loved so much.
When we conquered I was not as happy as before.
Ofer preferred to release me, chairman Lazy Rivlin begged me to continue and be at least partially on the bench
. Avi Rikan and Kobi Moyal.
"I raised players in Ma'ale Adumim for Betar Jerusalem and I am proud of that," he says.
Tough image.
Jano in the 1970s (Photo: Maariv, Reuven Castro)
He is recognized on the street, and not only in Israel.
"7 years ago I visited on a trip to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The wristwatch broke and I tried to look for a spring in a series of stores. One of the sellers recognized me, hugged me enthusiastically, called friends in Kfar Saba and Jerusalem and told about his meeting with Jano. Of course the watch was repaired."
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