World Cup or third tier?

What the Israeli team will look like in 2025

Everyone is delighted with the children of the youth team who stunned Europe, but in a few years will they lead the adult or will they, like so many times before, disappear from the top of football here?

Ophir Saar analyzes and wonders: Is it possible to build on a precedent in Benyon or a heavy Ziv?

Ophir Saar

03/07/2022

Sunday, 03 July 2022, 12:00

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Summary: The Israel - England youth team 3: 1 (Sports 1)

Sean Goldberg was the car player on the last youth team to advance to the European Championships in 2013, the last before the current one to finish as runners-up.

Goldberg was then the captain of the youth team of Maccabi Tel Aviv and was highly valued in the department.

In the seniors it was a different story, he very quickly went out to ask questions: Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Vermouth deal, Bnei Yehuda, Betar Jerusalem and then bought his ticket and continued to Hapoel Haifa and Beer Sheva, until he found the estate last year, mainly as a brake at Maccabi Haifa.

And why does it interest you what Sean Goldberg has been through since then?

Because the hottest question today is what will happen to the wonder kids of the youth team in a few years.

On the one hand, the association talks about finding solutions for players at this age with a reserve league and discussions about the possibility of creating such and such frameworks for them, pilots may soon start but such start at a relatively amateur level until they draw conclusions, learn from mistakes and corrections to create a good and serious professional platform. Will no longer help and each and every one depends solely on himself.

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How will he fit into Ivica's lineup?

Oscar Gluch (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

With all due respect to the association or the demand from the clubs to let the children play, in the end it will rise or fall on the decision making of each and every one.

This is a generation that is aware and implements what needs to be done at the highest levels, loves to learn and initiates its personal development, but around some there are also quite a few stakeholders who will try to influence the decisions they make, decisions that will drastically affect their future.

How much can you write about Oscar Gluch?

Much.

Because his story is very intriguing at the level of decision making.

To the extent that Oscar remains at Maccabi Tel Aviv, no one knows how he will find himself in Ivica's hierarchy.

Ivica has a formidable trio in the form of Zahavi, Juvanovic and Burglary, players none of whom are really fit to complete the striker from the wing.

Of this trio, one is sure to stay on the bench, and so as not to develop over time two, the coach may have to change method, maybe move to three brakes and two strikers (less player in the link), there are many options and each can directly affect if and how many significant minutes Oscar can Get.

And it's not just at Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Even when moving abroad Oscar will have to check carefully where he is coming from. What is the style of the team, who is the coach and how much is being built on him as a dominant player. The dominant link between attack and attack now, not in the future.

Was the biggest name marked after Yossi Benyon.

Heavy Ziv (Photo: Nimrod Saunders)

And this is true for each and every one of the players on this team, most of whom do not have an exceptional level of talent but are talented.

With good speed, technicality and with a lot of heart and soul to the game, which is no less important for the road.

And yet, even those who will be equal only to the Premier League, they are entering another world.

We saw Lemkin and Israelov break up in the 5-0 derby in the second half, from being the kid who gets a chance and every glitch of hiss exciting, they move to a point where they have high expectations, along with a pressured crowd and media around them.

Once they move from the "children of the country" status to becoming another player, they move to other decibels of tension, nerves and coping and here the mental capacity of each and every one will determine his future.

What is mental?

In the boys' national team of 1997, which finished third in the European Championship, after Yossi Benyon, the first name marked was Ziv Kavda, whom Zeev Zeltzer defined as "a player who will lead the senior team in the future."

Where did it go?

Tzafririm Holon did not agree then to release him abroad or sell him to a senior team here, the player did not find himself that way, got lost and over the years degenerated into the lower leagues.

So it is true that Tzafririm made life difficult for him, , And in general in that Benyon and Lebeda team there were a lot of players who tried to live mostly on talent and were therefore set at maximum within the boundaries of the Premier League like Guy French, Dedi Ben Dayan and Liron Wilner. He is a jungle where the strong survive, whoever does not understand this gets out of the game.

At least 5 players from this team will reach adulthood.

And that's a lot (Photo: Reuters)

And when everyone is wondering where these kids will be in a few years, if you look at the current generation's awareness of professionalism in all its aspects, the fantasy that they will be the basis of the senior team in a few years on the way to a big tournament is realistic.

At the same time, there are so many variables along the way, that even if a significant amount of this team will not find its place in the Premier League in a few years, we will not be surprised.

Every team has leading players and complementary players, more talented and less talented, leaders like Oscar Gluch should have a much easier time getting their place in the senior team in the future as well, the grays will have to adapt and make perfect decisions in the coming years to join the front.

The truth is somewhere in the middle but even in a rough estimate it can be said that at least 5-6 of this team will be on the senior team roster in the future, which is a lot.

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