Why does it always feel crooked?

The question of calling up Omar Atzili to the national team

The objective public opinion is that the Maccabi Haifa star deserves to play in the national team and Yossi Benyon is also obliged to align with the system's decision.

And yet, why does it feel all the time that everything is populist in decision-making?

Ofir Saar

12/09/2022

Monday, September 12, 2022, 2:50 p.m

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Summary: Maccabi Haifa - Section Nes Ziona 1:3 (Sport1)

It was important for the football association to go public yesterday (Sunday) and explain the expected return of Omar Atzili to the national team for the match with Albania.

It is not so clear how necessary it was and what would have happened if Atzili had simply been invited without unnecessary noise. It is likely that the association, which is still recovering from the events of Mons Davor, was afraid of reactions and noise that would accompany the team from the moment of the summons until the game and therefore wanted to preempt a cure for the blow.

Yossi Benyon is not the type of person who changes his skin.

He did not want Atzili in Beitar Jerusalem after he was thrown by Goldhar and was really not enthusiastic to see him in the national team. It is important to note that in the same summer of Beitar Jerusalem, Yankel'a Shahar and Alona Barkat also did not want to touch Atzili or Dor Micah.

At the initial stage everyone ran away, in January when after all the atmosphere became calmer, Atzili returned to Israel from Cyprus to Haifa and at the end of the season Micha to Be'er Sheva.

An attempt to preempt a cure for a blow.

Omar Atzili (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)

So Banyon may not have been enthusiastic, but today he is in a different formation, in Beitar every veto that the Til Hogge celebrates could not say anything, in the national team he is in a different formation that there are other factors that are involved in decisions at the systemic level and this is something that was agreed upon when he took office, and he agreed to this, that he A professional manager of the national team but part of a very clear mechanism.

Omer Azili deserves to be in the national team. Why? Because in the end the popular opinion of the public is that it should determine whether a player is worthy or not, this is the people's national team. Oren Hasson did not need a prosecutor, indictment or not ( There were already some with criminal convictions playing in the national team) and counseling of one kind or another. At the end of the day, just like in the case of Davor, the people had their say. Atzili is received with love at Maccabi Haifa, they would have received him with love if he had stayed at Maccabi Tel Aviv, also in Be'er Sheva and at home." R was generally received like a king in those days.

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In the national team he is in a different formation.

Yossi Benyon (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)

The public judged Atzili, they are disgusted by what he did, the stain will accompany him for life, but almost everyone is willing to have him in their team, and this is the bottom line that should decide, an objective football fan is ready to accept Atzili to his team and likewise to the national team, this is the prevailing opinion that should lead when making the decision, exactly What the association did not understand in the Davor case when it strove for silence and calming down any racist discourse, that the only chance to align was his sincere and genuine apology, which he did not want to do and here it should have been cut, with all the sorrow.

At the level of the objective selected fan, there will always be opponents, but they are few and far between, so you have to accept the decision of the majority, as in any good democracy.

The national team has such an important and significant game against Albania, that you should really put everything aside and try to push and enjoy the moment, we don't have many opportunities like that.

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