Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Hapoel Hadera 0:5 (Sport1)
Vladan Ivić's second term at Maccabi Tel Aviv came to an end much faster than expected, and now it is final and official.
The Yellows announced tonight (Tuesday) after the easy 0:5 in the cup against Bnei Sakhnin about the departure of the Serbian, who is now expected to be officially appointed as the coach of Krasnodar from the Russian league.
An announcement about his replacement is expected to come later, with one of the two leading candidates at the moment being Spain's Aitor Karanka.
The Serbian, who led the yellows to two championships in his previous term in Israel, signed a one-year contract last summer with an option for one more, but as mentioned is now leaving after only half a season.
Ivić received a tempting and high offer (about 2 million euros per season, compared to 800 thousand euros in Maccabi Tel Aviv), Kiryat Shalom decided not to stand in his way and they will even be financially compensated by Krasnodar.
Faster than expected.
Vladan Ivitch tonight with Oskar Gloch (photo: Ariel Shalom)
Ivic leaves Maccabi Tel Aviv in second place in the Premier League table, six points behind leaders Maccabi Haifa.
Under him, the yellow team advanced to the quarter-finals of the State Cup, but as in the previous term, Maccabi Tel Aviv did not qualify for the group stage in Europe with him as they were eliminated by Nice in the conference league playoffs.
Krasnodar is in eighth place in the Russian league after 17 rounds, but in the last seven rounds they won only once.
The Armenian Eduard Saperstein is its top scorer and assists and it has other intriguing foreigners such as the Colombian John Cordova who joined from Hertha Berlin.
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