Four months before the Euro 2024 qualifying campaign kicks off, the Israel national team begins preparations with two friendly matches at Shlomo Insurance Stadium.
Tonight (Thursday, 8:30 p.m.), the team meets the Zambian team for the first time ever, when in the first a team that is much more familiar to the Israeli audience - Cyprus - will arrive in the country.
Being without Eran Zahavi, Manor Solomon, Liel Abda, Shawn Weissman and Mons Davor, the team comes with many new faces, especially in the front.
Thay Bribo, who scored the winning goal against Albania that arranged for Israel to move up to Tier 1 in the League of Nations, rose to the occasion.
The attack squad is completed by Dean David and Gabi Kanikovski.
Maccabi Haifa has three representatives in the 11 in the form of Shawn Goldberg, Neta Lavi and David, while Hapoel Beer Sheva also has three players in the lineup - Ramzi Spuri, Miguel Vitor and goalkeeper Omri Glazer, who was preferred over Daniel Peretz.
Captain Beavers Natcho and Oscar Gloch, who was called up to the senior team for the first time, are waiting on the bench.
On the other hand, Zambia is in the middle of the African Championship qualifying campaign, so the meeting against Alon Hazan's team is a preparation for the continuation of its campaign.
The familiar names in the lineup are Patson Daka, a striker for Leicester, and Lamek Banda Melcha, who will return to the field where he played last season in the Maccabi Petah Tikva uniform.
King's Kangwa, who met Maccabi Haifa at the beginning of the season in the Champions League qualifiers as a Red Star player in Belgrade, was placed in midfield.
still there.
Natcho (Photo: Danny Maron)
The composition of the Israeli national team:
Omri Glazer, Eli Desa, Miguel Vitor, Shawn Goldberg, Doron Leidner, Neta Lavie, Aden Kartsev, Ramzi Spuri, Gabi Kanikowski, Dean David, Thai Bribo.
The composition of the Zambian national team:
Toaster Ansabata, Benedict Chepshi, Thandi Amufa, Dominic Chanda, Roderick Kabwe, Benson Sakala, Kings Kangwa, Emmanuel Banda, Lambek Banda, Lumbamu Musonda, Patson Daka.
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