Summary: City of Kiryat Shmona - Section Nes Ziona 3:3 (Sport1)
It wasn't just a hard landing, we were thrown to the ground from the clouds.
We knew it would be hard to come back, but it was already excessive, as if someone was organizing a prank to tease us, waiting for us in the corner with a bucket of cold water, slapping it in our faces and laughing.
Get up, wake up from the dream, where you thought you were.
Forget the World Cup, welcome Nir Berkovic, please behave accordingly.
Only three days have passed since the best football game of all time, and here is the same sports section, the same newspaper, the same websites, again in the main headline, in the same font size: Section coach Nes Ziona resigned, and moved to Kiryat Shmona.
It was impossible not to shake your head, cluck, bite your lips.
Okay, we're back, let's come to our senses.
what is going on here?
It started with a short notice, that Berkowitz resigned "surprisingly".
What is surprising?
Which is surprising?
Suppose the Congolese prime minister resigns unexpectedly, is it still justified to use the term "surprise"?
What is our business anyway?
How can you be surprised by something that does not exist in the mind?
But only 20 minutes passed, and the puzzling move gained volume and dimensions thanks to the "twist": Nir Berkovich signed with Kiryat Shmona.
Once again the fan had to rummage through his memory, check the details, remember that Kiryat Shmona does exist, coached by Menachem Koretsky who decided to resign, because what to do, the head is still flooded with emotions from Mbappe's hat-trick, from Messi's swing celebrations, and sorry, maybe in between the story was a little swallowed up and not absorbed In the head our Menachem is "ashamed of the players" and decided to raise his hands.
The CEO of Ness Ziona clarified how things work: "Nir is like family and he is my friend before he is my employee." Berkovich in Kiryat Shmona (photo: Walla! system, Maor Al-Kalsasi)
But yes, Koretsky resigned, and after the decision, the owner of Kiryat Shmona, Izzy Sharetzky, delivered a legendary sentence: "The truth is, I'm already tired of all the coaches."
It's very funny, Izzy, after all, we too got tired of them, a long time ago, and it's hard for us to distinguish between Sylves and Dora, we've already exhausted Mimer's jokes, the years pass and we still haven't been able to decide what the nature of medicine and slobo is because everything is accidental and accidental - but we don't need to name them and work With them, Sharetzky does.
And Izzy didn't have much time to hesitate, he must find a coach that fits his dimensions, and Marco Belval was already going to land in Israel straight to the job that became vacant and a ball was sewn on him, after he was fired from North East United following eight losses in the first eight rounds of the season in the Indian League.
But what does it matter to have a fake resume, you need to sign a coach, and as you know, he's already tired of all the coaches anyway.
Sheretzky has not yet had time to decide, and on the line, Ile Berkovic, arranges his brother for him.
And although we were not present at the conversation, but from our familiarity with the characters we imagine not only the content of the conversation, but also the style, the short negotiation, the decisive tone, the voices are literally playing in our heads.
But wait a moment, Izzy must have told him, isn't Nir signed by Nes Ziona?
Leave it easy, on me, let me take care of it, how much do you pay?
Give a little more, and he'll be with you tomorrow.
And so the two closed the details, orally but not necessarily in a "gentlemanly" manner, and somehow despite the deal being closed in the dark, the parties trusted each other, feeling that their word was their word.
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Without hearing the conversation, we can well imagine how it sounded, what was said in it and what was not said in it.
Berkovich (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)
And as mentioned, we were not present at the conversation, but it can be assumed which questions did not come up and were not discussed: Tell me, Eil, by what authority are you calling me?
Is this story about me at all?
You don't work as a commentator on radio and television?
Aren't you supposed to visit me and my group sometime?
Do you remember the days when I fired Barak Bacher just because he dared to talk to another group?
Will it be possible from now on to say the phrase "coach status" without bursting into laughter?
And if anyone thought that Bens Ziona was shocked by the move or saw it as a betrayal, the reaction of the general director of the section Roi Ankva quickly came, who put things into the right proportion and made it clear to the Premier League fans where things stand and how they are going. "Nir and Ile came and told me that they had an offer and that want to leave", said the CEO, simply and naturally, "Nir is like family and he is my friend before he is my employee, I told him to do what is best for you".
I mean, with all due respect to professionalism and the fate of the group, we are all friends.
He's not the only one fed up.
Winner of the Israel Sharetzky Award (Photo: Government Press Office, Oded Karni)
We haven't had time to click yet, to feel that the transition from Argentina to Kiryat Shmona is a bit too sharp even for hardcore fans like us, and we got the next episode, with the confrontation between Berkovich and Nadav Zanzifar, with inside gossip from Nes Ziona and live teasing that made even a person like Raz Zahavi move uneasily in his chair, and we had a hard time understanding if it was good or bad or why we deserved it.
Particularly amusing is the fact that this unfortunate "affair" is taking place at the same time as the media battle between Shino Zoertz and Oren Hasson for the position of chairman of the association.
And again, the same sports sections, the same websites, the same headlines, again the use of terms like "drama" and "battle", but this time not between the two best footballers in the world, but between two businessmen who are competing for the leadership of the business.
Will bring the change?
Shino (Photo: Yotam Ronen)
And when talking about those two businessmen, it is impossible not to mention their connection to that Iel Berkovich, the man who sewed up his brother's move and was not ashamed of it, because that Iel Berkovich told the perfect story in the past, which may already be known to everyone but must be mentioned again and again: "I had two meetings with Oren Hasson and he told me that he wanted me to be a national team coach but that I had to go talk to Shino... I went to talk to Shino, he told me that he was with me and he was in favor of the idea, but I had to go talk to Stern Halova... I went to talk to Halova, he told me that the idea was good, but then he referred me to Yaakov Shahar. Then I said enough, that's it."
Yes, the people who run the association made Eyal Berkovich despair of the neighborhood.
And so, while the football world is still in hi, we are no longer just with our feet on the ground, with our faces in the mud, looking forward to the elections on Tuesday, Shino against Oren in the battle for the association.
And to illustrate the desperation, it is enough to prove that even though it is a position that can be significant, it is difficult to attribute meaning to it.
It is doubtful if there is a single football fan in Israel that the fight between them bothers him, that the identity of the winner is important to him, in light of the feeling that it doesn't really matter, everything will remain the same, for better or for worse.
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