The association is looking for a solution: "We will not make Zahabi withdraw from the national team" | Israel today

The football association is trying to digest the saga of Eran Zahavi and his non-call to the Israel national team.

Chairman Oren Hasson is personally involved in the story and is trying to find a solution that will return the Maccabi Tel Aviv striker to the national uniform in the future.

On the other hand, the social and professional codes of professional manager Yossi Benyon are clear and there is no desire to change them for one player.

"There is a catch here," admitted an official in the association, "it is difficult to get out of this story because it is only to bend one of the two: Yossi Benyon or Eran Zahavi, in the end Benyon is the professional authority and these are the results also at the summons level."

Yossi Benayoun.

Zahavi is no longer in the national team?, Photo: Udi Tsitiat

One of the suggestions that came up is to allow the players to be alone in their room in the future as part of professional preparation, or just to sleep alone.

On this issue as well, officials in the association clarified: "When the rules were changed in the past and they were opened, there were those who took it to a bad place and we don't want that to happen this time either. This is a team and not an idiot. Those who want to be in the team should align themselves according to the rules and codes.

"The desire is not to put one person separately or with his own rules and it doesn't matter what his name is or his status as a player in his team. There is no one who does not appreciate Eran Zahavi and there is no connection between the things."

Already at the beginning of the week the topic came up.

Zahavi received a call in which it was explained to him that he was expected to be part of the staff in the upcoming call-ups.

In the first conversations, the subject of the room did not come up at all.

The topic came up between him and Banyon in a conversation between them and from there things started to unfold.

By the way, in the conversations between Zahavi and Bennion and Hazan, the player explained that at Maccabi Tel Aviv he was alone in his room, but it was made clear to him that a team framework is one thing and a national team is another. Zahavi was used to being alone even during the tenure of Willy Rothensteiner as coach and the players on the staff accepted this, if Because even here the backing in the association is given to the professional team that sets the rules.

Hazan and Benion in Masat, today. They threw the bomb, photo: Udi Tsitiat

"We want Zahavi in ​​the squad," they explained around chairman Oren Hasson, "he has contributed a lot in recent years, scored in bunches and in the end the team may be hurt professionally.

We won't make Zahavi withdraw from the national team.

We will try to bridge the gap that has been created, but it will no longer happen before the game against Albania."

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