Tikteknu: today's summary clip in Sport, 27.2 (Sport1)
The Israeli national team is given more time to try and reach a solution to the Eran Zahavi issue.
The professional manager Yossi Banyon and the coach Alon Hazan said their opinion yesterday (Monday) at the open day held by the football association with the media and now the team hopes that Zahabi will agree to return unconditionally.
In any case, the national team does not want to drag out the issue for a long time and there is a debate whether to cut the issue for good in the coming days or to wait until the roster is announced in the middle of next month, in preparation for the games against Kosovo and Switzerland that will open the Euro 2024 qualifying campaign. Adds to the preparations of and does not contribute to the peace they want to create and therefore at some point, they will want to cut the story if Zahavi does not return.
In the last few days, Banyon and Hazan rejected an idea that came up in the corridors of the House of Representatives in Shafiim, according to which they would invite an odd number of players to the upcoming squad and so there would be one player without a partner and he would have to sleep alone in the room.
Another idea that came up was that Zahabi would sleep in the first days of each gathering with a roommate and only the evening before a game, he would sleep alone according to his needs and his desire for maximum professional preparation.
One is still here, the other is currently not.
Zahavi and Natcho (Photo: GettyImages)
Zahavi focuses most of his attention on the team, but there are still open issues for the upcoming games.
For example, in the case of Beavers Natcho, the veteran captain did not get many minutes in the last friendlies against Cyprus and Zambia and looked very upset because of it.
He was so unsatisfied with the time he had won, that it seemed that he would retire.
Natcho even signed the players on the team shirt which gave another sign that for him this is the end.
But that's not the way things are now and the team is expected to invite Natcho to the next squad after he both recovered from an illness that afflicted him in the last few days and participated in the last game in Serbia.
The national team respects Natcho and believes that he can still contribute in the national uniform, even if he is not in the starting eleven.
Regarding the national goalkeeper, the obvious struggle is between Hapoel Be'er Sheva goalkeeper Omri Glazer and Daniel Peretz from Maccabi Tel Aviv.
According to sources in the national team, the fight is very close between the two and it will be decided according to several parameters, first of all the personal fitness of each one near the games.
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