Itai Schechter: "Barda surprised me, wants to stay if people believe in me"
The striker is finishing another season with a title and is now waiting to hear if Hapoel Beer Sheva believes in him.
On the professional manager who became the coach: "Players came out of his assembly with chills in their bodies."
On Ivica: "He would not have given up on me."
On the kiss with Glazer: "My wife says that in moments of happiness I lose my head"
Yaniv Tuchman
27/05/2022
Friday, May 27, 2022, 11:00 p.m.
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Hapoel Beer Sheva Cup Celebrations (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu Video Editing: Aviad Balili)
Itai Schechter did not play in the cup final.
It has been important for him since the serious injury to his knee in the quarterfinals against Maccabi Petah Tikva to prepare himself for the finals.
Be with the players on the lawn and help.
He underwent surgery, worked hard, came back and was injured again but did not give up.
Even without receiving a minute from Aliniv Barda, he managed to be part of the team in preparation for the game he arranged for Hapoel Beer Sheva.
You did not have a minute in Teddy, but you take the picture with the kiss to Omri Glazer on the lips.
He said here yesterday in an interview that every player should experience Itai Schechter.
Were you able to touch him too?
"I try to touch everyone. It's part of my career. I'm happy for Omri. He came as a second goalkeeper. He went through less good years and came to Be'er Sheva at a crossroads for him. He upgraded, matured. He took the gloves and was the goalkeeper of the season without a doubt."
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"My wife says that in moments of happiness I lose my head" (Photo: Danny Maron)
Liz your wife was not a little jealous of this kiss with Glazer?
"Jealousy but she says in moments of happiness I lose my head."
You have been waiting a long time for this game.
You prepared yourself and in the end you failed to be on the grass.
"I was injured in the quarterfinals against Maccabi Petah Tikva in the rematch at Turner. Despite the injury I insisted on not leaving the field and played like that with a knee injury. I may have worsened the situation and the fact that I had surgery after that. But it was worth it. In the league game before the cup final, I came in as a substitute for 20 minutes and I still did not feel good. We take a trophy as a club and I will count titles at the end of my career and I have another degree. "
which number?
"I have 12 degrees."
Were you a little weird taking a degree without being a partner?
"I had a hard time. When I can not influence the game on the grass then my pressure is great. On penalties I went down to the locker rooms at all. When I'm not on the grass, it's harder for me. I'm proud of my friends. This final reflected our season. There were more moments. "Good and less good and we got exiles in not easy minutes, but we showed maturity and I am very happy."
"Alinib saw with my own eyes how much I wanted to get in."
Schechter (Photo: Danny Maron)
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Where was your contribution in this final even though you did not participate in the end?
"I'm not supposed to talk about myself but anyone who knows me knows how much I touch on the small details. I told them before the game that this final would be decided on stationary situations and that's what it was at the end. All the exiles were like that.
You did a great season apart from being relegated from Europe.
What set you apart?
"Excellent locker room. Players who are men. Do not open on each other. Guard on each other and the strangers were guys with character. My title for this season is Men Bringing Degrees."
Let's talk about Aliniv Barda.
How did he manage to get into such a coaching role so smoothly?
"Alinib gave us a meeting at the hotel before the final. I left it with a shiver. And I went through something in football. He spoke from the deepest places that can be. He put us in the situation and said he takes responsibility for it, just having fun and playing for each other. We left the hotel and wanted to go up "To the grass. He moved us. People came out with chills in his body from him."
You played together in the team.
you know him.
Did he surprise you as a coach?
"Very. Because as a professional manager he was behind the scenes. He did not come in with us. As a coach he was very surprising and he can only progress. Obviously it is a role that attracts you but you take risks. Aliniv surprised us all."
"My title for this season" 'Men bring degrees' "Beer Sheva players celebrate the victory in the cup final (Photo: Berni Ardov)
Do you also want to be Aliniv Barda?
"I did not know how much he learned in recent years. Even from my acquaintance I did not know what Aliniv has to give. He made a huge career, but being a coach is different. He knows how to touch strangers, talk to young people, he respects everyone. He will go through more crises and for sure "Let players get angry at him when he does not give them minutes. Aliniv is a very good person. This title will give him a lot of power as a coach and he will sometimes have to be worse because he is a very good person."
In the semi-finals in Bloomfield against Maccabi Tel Aviv, you sat in the stands injured.
Maccabi already led and looked excellent.
Have you seen a movie that you are not fired?
"This is exactly Hapoel Beer Sheva last season. A team that does not leave the game for a moment. We were behind and Maccabi looked fire and still we came back and won 1: 3. We took a trophy with very difficult games on the way. Maccabi Netanya away, Maccabi Petah Tikva in the quarter, Maccabi Tel Spring in Bloomfield. It's a track piece. You can quarrel over quality or talent but we were a team with character. I kept telling players that taking degrees is character. If I have an agenda in life it's choosing players with personality because those are the people you go into battle with. Football "Ours may not have been the most beautiful, but in the end our audience came out proud of this season. Be'er Sheva brought something different this season."
What sets you apart in my opinion is that a bunch of veterans have gathered at the club and usually older players go with derogatory names.
And you, very old, did not let age be a burden.
"These are the things I hate to hear the most. There are clubs and teams in the world that are built only on veterans. We may have been an older team, but a group of men. When you build a staff you need both talent but also veterans with character. Alona chose players with personality."
"He held a meeting for us. I came out of it with chills."
Aliniv Barda (Photo: Udi Citiat)
She probably understands football because she chose Barda.
While others estimated that within a week they would replace him, she knew what she was doing.
"Alona made moves by someone who understands football. She acted with a lot of professionalism and she was right. I saw in the summer after we were eliminated in Cyprus who Alona Barkat is. I saw her and her husband Eli how much they knew to put aside the disappointment from Europe to go to the league on the right foot. "They fall apart after we did not go to the Conference League. Even in less good moments and in disappointments, she knew how to say a good word and it really impressed me as someone who came to the club a year ago."
Hapoel Beer Sheva has an option on you and it has to decide.
Do you want to stay or go down to a less glittering team and play more minutes?
"I want to be wanted in Be'er Sheva and then I will want to stay. I do not want to stay if they do not think I can help professionally. I am sure I can still contribute on the grass. If I can also help in the locker room it is a bonus but first of all I want to feel believed Even if Be'er Sheva says thank you very much, we enjoyed you I will leave and go to my next destination. I want to be in a place that loves me and appreciates me. I received a great appreciation from Alona, Roni Levy and Aliniv a year ago when I came. "A year in the seniors. I went through everything from everything in football. I have no fear of anything. Something bad will happen, I will deal with it."
Let's talk a little about your friends.
Dor Micha had a very difficult season with his return to Israel and he ends it with the team shirt in the cup final.
"As the final ended this week, I reminded Dor of the Toto Cup final that he missed Pendel and took it hard because we lost and then I told him on the grass that we would bring a more important title to Hapoel Beer Sheva. What really happened. And here we closed a circle and reminded him of that. Dor Micha was "A professional all season long. He did not play for many weeks but always came to every game and ran and trained excellently."
While Noble Omar is becoming a player of the season here, Dor Micha is still looking for his way.
"But this is our profession. This is our career. It is true that Dor has not experienced many crises in his career. He grew up as a star in Maccabi Tel Aviv and rose to prominence. I would also like to mention his wife Almog who was there for him last year. I wish them an easy birth soon."
"It's our profession, it's the career."
Dor Micha with Noble Omar (Photo: Berni Ardov)
Is the player who should have received the most reinforcements from you this season?
"I'm for everyone always. Dor is like a little brother to me. I always told him the truth inside and to my delight he listened. He did not lose training, he did not speak in the media, he did not get dirty, he just trained and worked hard to get back."
Roy Gordana in your gang too and out of nowhere came the severe knee injury with a tear in the cruciate ligament.
"If not for Roy Gordana, we are not in the final at all. He kept us in the semi-final against Maccabi Tel Aviv and was excellent. He gave great games and then got injured."
You arrived in Be'er Sheva from Maccabi Tel Aviv with Eitan Tibi.
He also went through a very complex professional season but finished it with a place in the squad for the final game.
"Eitan Tibi has one and he has no other. Everywhere I take Eitan Tibi with me. A person's lift and a player's lift. He did not play for two months but in every training he was the best. He did not make faces. Like a real soldier in a war."
"If he was at Maccabi Tel Aviv, they would not give up on me."
Schechter with Ivica (Photo: Danny Maron)
Vladan Ivic on the way back to Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Will the championship go to Kiryat Shalom when he returns?
"If Vladan Ivitch comes to Maccabi Tel Aviv, it will be a different opera for everyone. Maccabi Tel Aviv will be very strong. It obviously depends on the staff he has, but he is a huge coach. If Ivitch was at Maccabi Tel Aviv, they certainly would not give up on me."
Isn't it time for their golden hair to say that he is returning to Maccabi Tel Aviv?
"Eran Zehavi is one of the greatest players. He is perhaps the greatest in history and his decision is not easy. I can not enter his place. I can understand his hesitation because he has been very successful for ten years and feels he can give more abroad.
Whatever he decides, I will be with him as a friend. "
What is it like to be a footballer who is the father of four children, one of whom already plays for the children of Maccabi Tel Aviv?
"Thank God I win degrees as a father to children. I have an 11 year old boy who has experienced my career and all my happy moments. For me there is no happiness more than that. My wife insisted on coming to Teddy with the four of them this week and I was a little apprehensive. "They were not tired at midnight. They ran like ninjas on the lawn."
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