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Is there someone ready to take responsibility for Israeli football? | Israel today

2022-08-25T07:39:08.024Z


The attack by Maccabi Haifa fans against Yossi Banyon is just a drop in the sea of ​​disgust that exists in Israeli sports • Maccabi Netanya has become the leading yellow-black team in Israel • The association and the budget control have once again proven that they have no say • Also: why should Nir Klinger's path be evaluated? • Guy Levy with a new weekly summary section


1. The culture of hate is preserved in Israeli football.

The culture of joy for Eid.

When Yossi Banyon meets Maccabi Haifa fans at the airport, the curses fly in the air like fighter jets, echoing and hurtful, insulting.

Maccabi Haifa fans call Maccabi Tel Aviv "Germans" and even sing about the late Shapira's guns.

Is this true sympathy?

Is it repairable?

Maccabi Haifa fans are not alone.

The phenomenon of humiliation in Israeli sports is widespread.

The football fields are full of offensive songs and curses of every kind down to the worst personal level.

Even in basketball, Hapoel Tel Aviv fans have been singing abominable songs in condemnation of Shimon Mizrahi for years and no one has the ability, or no real desire on the part of anyone, to stop it. The fans also casually use the word holocaust, as if it is legitimate, as if it is allowed.

And words are a power that hurts.

Harsh words are violence that leads to physical violence.

It starts with words and slides into the legitimacy of harming the body.

This phenomenon should have been stopped a long time ago.

In the first curse.

But it's already too late.

The perception that swearing is allowed on the pitches is the problem.

Acceptance of this situation leads to the extremism of the statements even more, to shock, to hurt the opponent, to humiliate.

When a person humiliates the other and diminishes him, then he apparently feels big and strong, victorious and has the last word.

This is a culture of humiliation with seemingly logical justification: 'he who started' and 'he who humiliated first' is allowed and the country is democratic and there is freedom of speech, isn't it?

So it is allowed and there is no enforcement, and if there is, then the police are accused of improper behavior.

In addition, the behavior of the players around the issue should also be considered.

We often hear how in championship celebrations players participate and say obscene things, singing in public, while humiliating the other.

Yossi Benyon's case is just one example and I am sure that a considerable part of Maccabi Haifa fans do not agree with him.

The question is what to do with it and how to stop it, because the alternative for any reasonable parent would be not to send the children to the playground.

Another significant question is whether there is anyone willing to do something about it, or whether the fear of confronting a large public of fans outweighs everything.

On the training ground of Maccabi Haifa hangs the slogan: "The person before the player" and after all "Near demands, handsome sustains", we are all committed to this.

There is a common saying "the one who blesses will be blessed", which basically means that anyone who blesses his friend also receives the blessing that he blessed.

The same is true of the curse.

Maccabi Netanya celebrates last Saturday against Beitar, photo: Alan Shiver

2. The yellows are the new blacks, they are not from Jerusalem.

The new black and yellows play with three strikers and attack the ball forward, pressing, arranged in their positions but in attack they move and change position and again return to positions and repeat, again and again, with non-stop enthusiasm and "hot" stands.

The fourth side at the top, Maccabi Netanya.

Aboxis, Kriaf and Abramov.

Where is the control and association?, Photo: Alan Shiver

3. Money, power and respect, these were the interests in the Beitar deal. Combine? I have yet to meet anyone who has proof and who succeeds in tying the Beit Vagan complex into the deal, apparently. Throughout the Beitar saga this summer, it was clear that the group was receiving preferential treatment .

Beitar, as well as Maccabi Tel Aviv, B.S., Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Tel Aviv, have a built-in advantage over the other clubs.

The fact that they have a large audience makes them "powerful" in the media and among businessmen.

In my mind's eye, I cannot see a situation where all the parties involved in the Beitar deal sat down together and organized a combine, but rather the interests became intertwined. Abramov apparently made a catastrophic financial deal. It is possible that he really likes the team, but the fact that the purchase of Beitar gives He has status and a position of power in Israeli football.

The main thing should actually be directed towards the football association and the budgetary control.

The association has once again proven that in any subject where there are power struggles, it has no say, no line of thinking and no enforcement ability.

They are smart about the weak, those who have no communication power and no business lobby.

the control?

I'm sorry for Sigilit Sage who got caught up in the football industry.

It depends on the businessmen and those who depend on the businessmen deserve to be the one who "drops the case on him".

Klinger.

The money is counted on the stairs, photo: Kobi Eliyahu

4. I appreciate Nir Klinger for his ability to survive, in the face of young coaches who are knocking on the door, in the face of a management that doesn't take measures and fires new coaches in the morning and for the very fact that he has the physical strength involved in working as a coach and the mental strength to stand up to all the environmental and media pressure.

Klinger is a fighter, and so he was also as an actor, never giving up.

He "grew up" with coaches who left a mark on Israeli football, the tough Shlomo Sharaf and the sophisticated Abraham Grant.

Some will say that his approach is less suitable for players today.

There will be those who will say that it is better to return to professional management where the coach has greater authority.

Nir Klinger's Hapoel Haifa defeated Hapoel Tel Aviv last Saturday. They played defensive, retreating football and were less good than their opponent. Klinger knows that what determines his future is the result. This is what he aims for because he has no illusions about the world of football. If you can win through good football So welcome and if necessary then the victory is sacred in any way.

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Source: israelhayom

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