Summary of the game: Beitar Jerusalem - Maccabi Tel Aviv 2:2 (Sport1)
The first phone call was received by Ziv Aryeh.
Maxim Gloch, Oscar's father, took his 5-year-old son to trial training at Maccabi Shaariim.
They live in the city of Rehovot and the Maccabi Shaariim field was near the house.
Oscar has been running with a football outside since the age of 3. Even at home he broke several objects with kicks from a very young age.
At the end of the training in Sharayim, it was clear to everyone that there is something extraordinary here that should be part of a football school of a big club.
Except that Maccabi Tel Aviv seemed like something unattainable at the time and yet, there was someone who urged the father to pick up the phone.
Ziv Aryeh, coach of Hapoel Jerusalem, was then the director of Maccabi Tel Aviv's football school.
That was 14 years ago.
In the conversation between the father and Aryeh, Maxim asked to know how much it would cost him to bring Oscar to the ward.
When he heard that it was NIS 2,400 per year, he couldn't believe it.
It was certain that Maccabi Tel Aviv takes much more than the humble clubs in the streets.
Arya convinced him to come and be impressed.
"Come to a trial training and you will make a decision," Love said.
Oscar's first training was very successful.
It was a trainer named Tali who accepted him and Oscar stood out from the moment he stepped on the grass.
Maxim decided that he is leaving his son and even if he has to sacrifice a lot to bring him from the streets in transports, he will give Oskar the best he can.
Already at the age of 9, his rival parents said he would play in Europe.
Oscar with Barak Itzhaki (photo: courtesy of the photographers)
At the age of 7, Oscar was already playing in the league.
It's a very young age to move from soccer school to a competitive league, but Maccabi Tel Aviv had no doubt that Oscar was ready.
And he was ready.
When he was 9 years old (the age at which he is photographed with Barak Itzhaki here), there was not a game where the opposing parents did not come and tell Oskar: "At the age of 18 you will play in Europe".
Oscar was smiling.
Maxim would say they exaggerate.
"Let him develop slowly. You can reach Europe even at the age of 24," he said.
Oscar is still 18 years old. He will celebrate his 19th birthday only in April and this evening will be his last match in Maccabi Tel Aviv before he moves to Europe.
To Red Bull Salzburg.
Those parents who kidnapped him every Shabbat were right.
Barak Itzhaki does not remember the photo taken near the mythological kiosk in Kiryat Shalom.
He must have hundreds of photos with kids from the youth department.
It was taken in the season of Paolo Sousa.
in the championship of 2013/14.
Itzhaki returned to Maccabi Tel Aviv after the loan season in Cyprus.
Jordi Cruyff, who advised Mitch Goldhar to make him a professional manager at Maccabi Tel Aviv, sent Itzhaki to a season of exile on the neighboring island in one of his first actions when he arrived at Maccabi Tel Aviv ten years ago.
Oscar developed well in the youth department and at the age of 16 he was already training with the seniors.
Itzhaki knew that there was a diamond here and last season at Mladan Krstaj's he suggested that Oskar go up to train regularly with the Serbian.
When Karstaich decided that Oskar was ready for his first senior game, he came to Yitzhak and told him that he intended to put him in the eleven against Maccabi Haifa.
In the biggest game possible, Krstaich thought it would be right to let Oskar open.
Itzhaki told him that he completely agreed with the decision and that this was the right moment for the boy.
It was clear to Maccabi Tel Aviv that Oscar would be sold, certainly after what he did in the European Youth Championship in Slovakia.
He put himself up there in one list with the promising youngsters on the continent and the best of the biggest clubs in Europe played against him.
But in the various groups that followed youngsters in the championship up to the age of 19, they were waiting to see how Oscar would play in the seniors.
They got what he gave in last season's playoffs at Krstaich, but still wanted to see how he would develop this season.
His performance against Bnei Sakhnin in the State Cup with the perfect chip goal raised his stock even more.
Red Bull Salzburg have realized that if they delay and do not close this window, their competitors for the group of development clubs, will overtake them this summer.
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Instead of leaving almost for free, he will be sold for 7 million euros.
Oscar Gloch (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
If Maxim Gluch had insisted, Oscar would have left Maccabi Tel Aviv for Nazid Ashim.
Almost free.
In a year his original contract was supposed to end and he could go to Europe almost free.
Maccabi Tel Aviv would receive 90 thousand euros per season multiplied by five seasons and a total of 450 thousand euros.
Maccabi Tel Aviv knew that it could not withstand this and in the summer it began to pressurize.
From Mitch Goldhar through Jack Angalidis, Barak Itzhaki and the lawyer Moran Meiri.
Everyone sat on Gloch and his lawyer Shahar Greenberg.
The goal was to sign him to a new contract, one that would provide Maccabi Tel Aviv with a return when the buyer came.
An exit clause of 7 million euros was agreed upon between the parties, of which 30 percent is for Gloch.
Kiryat Shalom hoped that this would happen only at the end of the season and when Maccabi Tel Aviv is champion, but Gloch could not refuse the offer from Red Bull Salzburg, even though it arrived in this window and will leave Maccabi Tel Aviv with a serious professional injury.
"After all the balances and calculations, this is a very big success of the youth department," say Maccabi Tel Aviv proudly.
"The youth department has been well budgeted here for years and it is very important that young players we have brought up develop and are sold for high sums to renowned clubs. If Oscar reaches where we all hope he will, they will always remember that he came to Red Bull from Maccabi Tel Aviv. We will have to look for the next Oscar."
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