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Tonight: the love story between Eliniv Barda and Hapoel Beer Sheva is about to be put to another test Israel today

2022-08-11T09:45:33.661Z


The coach and legend of Beer Sheva is looking forward to a difficult season • After the last victory in the state cup, and especially in light of the improvement graph from game to game, he will have to show that he can deal with the two most successful coaches in Israel in the last decade • Even before that, he will try to complete the task against Logano tonight (20 :00) and qualify for the conference league playoffs


Eliniv Barda is a Beer Shevaite legend.

The boy who grew up in the club, toured Haifa and Tel Aviv, went on to a very successful period in Belgium and came back to blossom the Negev and bring a championship after 40 years in the desert, upon his retirement received the position of professional manager at the club. It seems like a natural appointment that will continue for years to come. A position with long-term thinking Long and no expiration sticker in sight.

All he needed was to get along with the owner, to build a clear role framework and responsibilities for himself - and above all not to be tempted to follow the same lines as many good ones before him, who turned from unforgettable symbols in the club to mythological exes.

But the longing for adrenaline, thrills and daily work on the grass continued to burn inside him non-stop even after retirement, and what finally brought down the token was the wonderful journey of BS in the State Cup last season which ended, with the swing (much thanks to the coach), after a victory over Maccabi Haifa , Breda realized that coaching was his vocation.

Breda took a big risk.

He started his coaching career with zero experience.

Pep Guardiola prepared himself as a player for training, when he went to play in Mexico to learn from Juanema Lillo (who later became his legendary assistant), flew to Argentina to have a brainstorming session with Marcelo Bielsa and coached for a year in Barcelona B.

As far as Breda was concerned, the temptation was probably too great, and he took with him the ultimate partner, Maor Malikson, and they both set off.

Breda and Barkat.

Connected, photo: Alan Shiver

To their credit, it looks good so far and they are improving as they go.

Breda came to the team after a coach who was not popular in the stands, and especially in the dressing room, which helped him in his first steps to earn a lot of enthusiasm from the players who covered up tactical deficiencies.

Later on Barda showed a nice learning curve, managed games excellently, responded well to what was happening on the grass and took ideas from the coach who brought three championships to the BS, Barak Becher, which he adapted to his team.

learn from the bad times

In my opinion, Breda's two best games so far are the semi-finals of the Cup against Maccabi Tel Aviv, for which he prepared in a great way, reacted excellently to the game and gave a knockout to Mladen Karstaich; and the game last week in Lugano, where BS reached a difficult away game in Europe, Played in the right formation to bring a result, and Breda's substitutions were the final stamp for the victory.

The picture that best tells how Breda the coach is still a player at heart came with the second goal in Switzerland, by Astrit Salmani, where you see Breda accurately execute the kicking movement together with the scorer, in a magical moment for him.

Breda with Bachar.

The BS coach learned a lot from his predecessor in the position, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

At the same time, Labrada is expected to have a difficult season.

He will face the two most successful coaches who have been here in the last decade and with two teams, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa, which seem to be of higher quality than B.S.

Given this, it will be interesting to see how Breda will deal with moments of failure, knowing that third place will be considered a drop compared to last season.

The important thing in dealing with bad times is experience, and since the decision was made that Breda will shave off BS's beard, patience is required. Breda and BS are a match made in heaven, and for this marriage to last it will require much more than love, and I hope that in our football, the impatient , we found a combination of bad times and long-term thinking that will allow this match to continue for many years.

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Source: israelhayom

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