For many years, the team's coaches were appointed after successes in the local league or who came from abroad to import.
The additional option, raising coaches and improving them through the young teams was not taken into account.
But after a bad tenure of two foreign coaches and sparse in the local coaching market, the association decided to go for another concept, which is very common in the world, and that is to choose a coach from the system.
So Alon Hazan, who has worked on every possible team for the last dozen years and even served for a moment as a temporary coach in the senior, got the job.
Yossi Benayoun.
His first game as the team's professional manager, Photo: Alan Schieber
Four interesting points from Hazan's debut game against Benyon:
Combining young players - Liel Abda is already a successful legionnaire (the young player of the season in Scotland), not to mention Manor Solomon (year 99) who is considered a veteran.
But Hazan was not afraid to include two of the greatest talents that have grown here in the last decade - Eden Kartzev and Doron Leidner.
So he did subtract them from the young team and that of course caused her damage (I will get to the young team later), but in the end that is the goal of young teams - to prepare players for the senior team.
And who if not a cantor, who worked with them there, knows that there is no reason to be afraid to throw them straight into the lineup.
2. Hazan worked closely with Willy Rothsteiner who stuck to a set of three brakes, which did not really fit the players' material at his disposal.
Hazan knew what he had in hand and returned the team to a 4: 3: 3 formation with two defenders excelling in the attacking game.
In addition, we saw nice offensive patterns in moving the ball, when Desa enters the center or alternatively produces line 3 with the brakes (and not one of the knots), allowing Leidner to stand tall, Kartzev to stay in the center and Abu Fani to line up and create a problem linking the opponent (just like Avda's goal) .
Leidner celebrates with Weissman the equalizer.
Great cooking for the young player,
Also, the important presence of Miguel Vitor, did not prevent the team from handing out gifts and showing what a big difference there is between the offensive talent in the team, and the defensive one.
In some cases, this is also true for the defensive players themselves (Leidner and even Desa, who in the first half presented a poor defensive game).
In the first goal, Marciano made a mistake that should not be made at these levels, but the second goal was even more negligent.
Eight dedications in a row and 34 seconds that the Icelanders held the ball, without pressure, when the brake comes out to enjoy with the ball without pressure from the knots and breaks the high defensive line with a simple depth ball between Vitor and Ledner, with Goldberg going to an area he should not be.
Here Hazan will have to put a lot of emphasis on the work of the ties because in these positions, we have players who know how to press and can prevent embarrassing situations from the defense.
Miguel Vitor.
His presence also did not make the desired change in defense,
4. Hazan's game management was active and much more correct than that of his predecessor in office.
Not balloon exchanges that seem to have come from home, but correct responses to what is happening on the lawn.
Hazan surprised that in the 60th minute he preferred to put Mahmoud Jaber, one of the discoveries of the season in our league, before Spori or Noble, in the position of the player behind the striker, a move that added energy to the Israeli link.
Later, Hazan also changed lineup and moved to 4: 2: 4 with Baribo Weissman, players who know how to aggressively press defenses, as two strikers.
This flexibility created the second goal (which, like the Icelandic goal, came after 8 passes in a row), with a wonderful raise by Leidner (a special player who will go very far) and a good move by Brivo to shorten evacuated Weissman to do what he knows better than anything else - to score .
Mahmoud Jaber.
Hazan trusted him and put him in front of a noble and narrative, Photo: Alan Shiver
So despite the disappointing result in a home game against a team that is in a big crisis, there were many good things that can be taken from this game and there is a feeling that the need for improvement, especially in the defensive aspect, can definitely be improved in the following games.
Solomon took a lot on himself, properly, and in general the left wing of the team looks very very promising offensively, Vitor is a serious addition of strength and even without Zahavi there is depth and diversity in the front.
I very much hope that this is the first step on the way to a successful term of Alon Hazan, a term that will make the fans enjoy the team, be proud of it, and especially return and fill the stadiums with our home games and this will be Hazan and Benyon's biggest success.
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