Today's heroes: Tomer Ginat's decision will do good for everyone
The Tomer Ginat Festival this week raised many questions: How traumatic are sports fans who think his choice is "brave"?
What does Eran Zehavi have in common, and why is it still important to compliment him in public?
On the "decision" that made good for everyone, including Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
Paz Hasdai
25/06/2022
Saturday, June 25, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
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What is depressing about Tomer Ginat's story is how surprised everyone is by his choice.
It should not be such a sensation.
With all due respect to the interview festival, this is not supposed to be "the exciting decision of the summer", but something trivial.
A former Hapoel player, a Hapoel fan as a child, who receives an offer from both Hapoel and Maccabi: Is it so amazing that he finally accepted Hapoel's offer, and did not go to the sworn rival he hated all his life?
Are we all so cynical and traumatic that such a decision is really perceived as brave?
After all, he is not the first person in history who is not only driven by financial considerations and "gives up a lot of money."
Most people make financial compromises in their professional life.
Quite a few older people know that they could have earned more in a parallel track.
Many good people act according to values.
Leave careers and become teachers.
Doing a change of profession, compromising, giving up conditions.
We will not underestimate the value of money and a good livelihood, but we, the sports fans, are we so surprised?
We, who from childhood were taught about the emotion in sports, about the unconditional love, we who memorized clichés about romance and commitment and sang disturbing fanatical songs in the stands - suddenly when an athlete acts according to these basic codes, everyone is amazed and excited?
How unfortunate that this is not self-evident.
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Look surprised.
Garden in the previous term (Photo: Danny Maron)
Even when Sha'aran Zehavi signs in the coming days at Maccabi Tel Aviv, we will hear the sentence "I gave up a lot of money to be here", and as with Zehavi, so in the case of Ginat Hovav HaSport he will not think it is too brave a decision, at least financially.
After all, both have already earned quite a bit over the years.
Both may have compromised but still "settled" with a not bad financial offer.
Ginat received the largest contract in the history of Hapoel Tel Aviv, and is about to earn a million dollars net.
Let's stop being griddy.
His condition is just fine.
The claim that "an athlete's career is short and therefore he must spend as much money as possible" should also be taken with a limited guarantee.
It's okay to put red lines.
Besides, with all due respect to your career, what about "life is too short to make decisions after which you can't look at yourself in the mirror"?
Tomer Steinhauer tweeted this week "Pleasure you, Tomer Ginat".
The same Steinhauer who starred in the series "The Fist", which was ostensibly a victim of the rule of Maccabi, and yet later moved to it without shame, and dried with a sour face on the bench;
Now the same Steinhaur actually approves of the garden - there are other things in life besides money;
There is satisfaction, pride, respect, it is also important that a person can go to sleep in peace, without anguish and a feeling of disgust.
And especially Ginat, who recently told about the anxiety attacks he suffered from, is this the man who should move to Maccabi for an improved salary?
The need to compliment the garden and glorify his move illustrates how many blows we have received in the head over the years.
Some cynicism has taken over professional sports (sorry for the cliché), making us desperate, resentful, unbelieving.
How a basketball player who chooses a lower financial offer is perceived as an exception, even if all other elements of decision and choice are ignored - professionally (e.g., minutes of play, how central will be his role in the team, etc.) and emotionally (his connection to one team versus his hostility to the other team).
Sad what we will become of us.
As one who has experienced road crossing in the flesh, he too knows: not everything is money.
Tomer Steinhauer (Photo: Liron Moldovan)
In a reformed world, Tomer Ginat's choice is trivial.
It naturally matches the emotional essence of the sport.
She mentions that these are not just ten actors who are divided into yellow and red shirts, but in a crazy and creative world, where people sing and shout and curse.
A distorted world where you can say to an actor unanimously and in all seriousness "You are our king, we are dying for you, but if you pass we will finish you".
Ginat, to be honest, to a large extent also did a favor for Maccabi Tel Aviv and its fans.
After all, in every such crossing, in every "crossing of the road", there is on the one hand the injured and betrayed crowd, but there is also a crowd on the other side.
The one who had to swallow the saliva and embrace an enemy player.
There are a lot of yellows that breathed a sigh of relief this week.
This is the right decision for everyone, good for everyone.
But nonetheless, there was great enthusiasm this week, because names and stories of countless traitors are running through our heads.
We are all already hurt, sure that evil and greed rule, that there is no hope, that everyone is unscrupulous shit.
Tomer Ginat's decision is natural, but in the current situation it should be praised and glorified, both to give justification for the emotional basis of the game, and also to show everyone else what the audience likes and appreciates.
So nice Tomer Ginat, nice to have something to wait for.
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