The national team's break is the best thing that could happen to Beitar Jerusalem, which started the season extremely late due to the sale of the club and the avoidance of liquidation. But even before the departure, a match against Maccabi Tel Aviv awaits them at night (20:30), which will try to recover after losing The points in the last cycle.
In the last two games Beitar conceded only one goal, compared to 9 in the last two rounds. The reason for the improvement in the defense is the return from injury of Oral Dagani and the comeback of Josua Machias, who took ownership of the back line and will try to stop Eran Zahavi and George Jovanovic tomorrow ' - not an easy task for any brakeman.
Machias in Derby.
The fans have been in love with him since last year, photo: Alan Shiver
Beitar fans have been in love with Mahias since last season, when he missed a few months due to elbow surgery, but when he played he was one of the best in the yellow ranks, and there were hardly any players like that in the survival season.
The thing is that not everything you see on the field is the complete package. Professionally, Machias may have done the job for the best, after all, it's not just that he is in the Venezuelan national team, but in everything related to the disciplinary side and a sporting lifestyle - the story was completely different.
Beitar sources say that in the second part of the season, when the team was at the height of the fight to stay in the league, there were several times that the player simply did not show up for training. him".
The club says that in one of the cases the player asked to fly to Madrid for two days, and before the law the request was approved.
The Venezuelan returned at the appointed time, but the next day he was supposed to show up for training and did not do so after going out to spend the night.
At that time, the person who spent a lot of time with him was Galeo Hasselbaink, who was released from the team this week, and one of the reasons for this is that apart from the professional disappointment with the striker, the Jerusalemites wanted to keep away from him players who had a bad influence.
Hasselbaink.
Beitar wanted to keep him away from the player, photo: Alan Shiver
So how, after all the disciplinary issues, did Betar still put the brakes on its ranks? How did Yossi Abouxis, who is known as a coach for whom discipline is very important, agree to this? Well, the answer to these questions is complex.
Don't be surprised, but throughout the summer, including the days when Beitar didn't know if they had a team or not and were looking for cheap foreigners, the coach wasn't ready to hear about Mahias, after getting discouraged by the player's behavior. But as time passed, the season had already started and Beitar didn't succeed find a brake.
He understood that there is what is desired and what is available.
What further strengthened the decision for Abouxis to bring Mahiyas back is the fact that the stopper does not need time to acclimatize and his and Degani's cooperation is already working excellently, while with another stopper they would have needed more time - which was not the case for Beitar.
But that's not all.
This morning we reveal for the first time in "Israel Hayom" that Mahiyas signed disciplinary clauses in his contract that include financial fines that can reach thousands of dollars, if he is late for training or does not come to them at all.
The fact that Mahiyas signed those clauses in his contract made the Beitar people believe that he understands that he has been given a second chance, which in a different situation he probably wouldn't have gotten it at all, and now he has to embrace it with both hands. Tomorrow against Maccabi Tel Aviv, Mahiyas will have an opportunity to prove himself at the highest level of Israeli football, which was worth bringing back.
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