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Better to keep quiet: Maccabi Tel Aviv's dressing room is no longer sterile Israel today

2023-02-09T07:56:50.461Z


Aitor Karanka has a way to go before he attacks his players who have forgotten Jordi Cruyff's legacy • The talkbacks around LGBT activism is a good enough reason for all players to wear shirts with the colors of the pride flag • Postponing the games because of Barbara was absolutely right • And: it's about time That the coaches stop with the clichés


1. The result of the draw on Saturday between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Bnei Sakhnin at Bloomfield Stadium surprised us all. According to media reports, Aitor Karanka, the coach of the Tel Aviv team, held a meeting at the end of the match and claimed to his players that they showed a lack of commitment, that they lacked energy and lacked seriousness regarding the game.

During the week, there was counter-criticism from the players towards Karanka, including their reference to the professional decisions he made during the game.

During Jordi Cruyff's time as the professional manager of Maccabi Tel Aviv, the dressing room was a sterile area and even with the tough Vladimir Ivić, media silence was maintained. Karanka must understand that at this stage he should talk less and do what is required. If there are players whose attitude does not suit him, So he just needs to get them out of the squad.The use of rotation can also help to create a squad with motivation, ambition and alertness.

Bnei Rayna players.

We will not progress as a society in this way, photo: Alan Shiver

2. It is impossible not to refer to the fact that players in the Premier League refused during the games of the last round of the league to participate in the show of support of the league manager for the association Iggy - which works for LGBT youth. Everyone who tried to explain the phenomenon attributed it to everyone's right to a free opinion. Suddenly this is very Enlightened to support dark views, on the one hand to demand equality between all people and on the other hand to refrain from identifying with the LGBT community.

They say that a man of faith will live, but is it worth it at the cost of harming an entire community?

The first rule in my view is the relationship between a person and his fellow man and accepting the other as he is, with his full rights as a person on earth.

Beyond the sanctity of life there is nothing more important.

Anyone who read this week's talkbacks surrounding the publications on the subject understands how much the dark views have taken over our society.

The results of the Barbara storm in the north of the country.

Postponing the games was the right decision, photo: Eyal Margolin - Gini

3. The storm "Barbara" hit the country with particularly powerful gusts of wind, cold and rain, which did not allow activity outside a closed and properly heated building.

Any sporting activity in such conditions is illogical, because even if the grass surface is in order for a football game, then the health of the players comes first.

Moreover, thousands of spectators were expected to come to the games planned in the Premier League and the National League on Monday and Tuesday, and the duty of the league manager is first and foremost to ensure that the activity is safe and does not endanger even a single soul.

And what's the point of a football game where the wind tricks the players and deflects the ball in all directions?

The postponement of the games was appropriate and well done by the league director who knew how to make a decision based on simple logic amidst the tangle of conflicting interests of the teams themselves.

Breda

Enough with the clichés, photo: Alan Shiver

4. There are sentences that I would prefer to remove from the lexicon of Israeli football.

Eliniv Berda, coach of Hapoel BS, said on Saturday after his team's victory over Aroni Nes Ziona: "I am not a pig, I am satisfied with three points in a difficult game", and the question arises, how does the pig belong in our football discourse?

It is also possible to avoid comparing the difficulty of winning to the birth process, as Sloboden Drapich said when he coached Hapoel Tel Aviv against Maccabi Bnei Rayna: "This victory was as difficult as giving birth to twins", after all, how can you compare, and how can a man even understand the feeling? Man, I still haven't been able to understand the meaning of the sentence: "We played like men". The most jarring to me is the call at the Israel national team games - "Israel war", because we live in a country that has known bloody wars and the football field is not supposed to resemble a battlefield in any way.

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Source: israelhayom

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