Maccabi Haifa will host Bnei Sakhnin this evening for the third game in a week.
On the previous Tuesday, the champion played in Belgrade, on Saturday Maccabi Netanya came to Sami Ofer, and now the postponed match from the first round of the league will be held in Doha.
Sound busy?
Well, the greens schedule is about to get a lot tougher.
The World Cup in Qatar at the end of November compressed the group stage games in the Champions League for the next two months.
This means that together with the game in Belgrade, Haifa will reach 20 games in two and a half months.
On average, Barak Becher's team will take the field every 3-4 days, and this is before we mentioned the flights to the games in Lisbon, Turin and Paris.
"We buy a schedule like this every season," said the club, "players should be happy to have such a load. Each of them will get minutes in the league or in Europe, there is no poor moment. After each game there is 48 hours of rest and then another and it puts you into a crazy routine , but one that every club can dream of."
The professional team of Maccabi Haifa prepares for the load accordingly.
The explanation given to the players is that "there will be almost no intensive training, but only release training and tactical training".
In fact, the physiological team now works differently.
The high tempo of the game replaces the intense training that usually takes place 48 hours before a game.
"There's no point in fitness training," the club clarified, "players will collapse, you need to protect them and not overload them even more."
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He will manage a rotation, photo: Barney Ardov
So how do you keep the players in such a situation?
You see them for quite a few hours on the treatment beds.
The masseuse Tomer Basan works several hours every day just to restore the muscles of those who played, along with ice baths and nutritional supplements designed to maintain the body.
Each player receives the appropriate supplements according to the blood tests and the technological means that the club makes available to the physiological team.
The personal computer of the fitness trainer, Uri Harel, has all the data on the condition of the muscles and the level of risk of injuries, and according to this he and Dror Shimshon plan the loads together with Barak Becher.
"Almost any mistake can result in injuries," Haifa explains.
"It is clear to us that there is no 100 percent, the human body is not a robot, in football there are bad movements, tackles and a lot of aggressiveness, but we need to protect the players and minimize the issue of injuries as much as possible."
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Will he continue to start in the league?, Photo: Barney Ardov
The third and seemingly simple aspect is the rotation between the players, and this is Bacher's job.
Already last Saturday, Ali Muhammad, Charon Sherry and Frandzi Piero were rested.
Tonight against Bnei Sakhnin, other players will rest.
Captain Neta Lavi is expected to start on the bench, as is striker Dean David.
Piero and Mohamed are expected to return to the 11, and there will be several changes in each game.
As far as the defense is concerned, in light of the departure of Bogdan Palanich, the flexibility is less.
By the end of the week, two more brakes are expected to sign in the team, and then rotation will also be possible in the back line.
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