Alon Hazan's motivational speech to the Israeli national team players before the match against Albania (courtesy of the Football Association)
"We must find a compromise", "Benyon must get off the tree", "Zahavi received a tempting offer from the United States", Zahavi is the best striker that Israeli football has", Zahavi is in excellent shape today", "We don't have this luxury that we can give up Zahavi "Benyon and Zavebi must sit down and reach a compromise between them", they need to consider Zabevi", "there is bad blood between Benyon and Zavebi", "Benyon does not want a strong player in the national team".
If Eric Einstein was alive, he could record a great song from the list of things that were written and said about the Eran Zahavi case and the room in the team.
It seems that the media discourse accompanied by a campaign and spins, and enormous pressures on the chairman of the football association, Shino Zoertz, to take the building off the tree, has gone completely off the rails.
Why should everyone bother with it now?
Zahavi (Photo: Reuters)
All arrows point in the direction of Benion.
Most of the claims are that Benion deals with small things.
Has anyone even brought up the subject of conversions?
Doesn't a player, no matter how big he is, have to accept the decisions of the professional team?
Is it appropriate for a player to bend a professional coach and manager?
Can a player be above the coach?
of course not.
But there are (and they are many) those who think so.
This absurd festival could have been stopped a long time ago.
As if there are no problems in Israeli football, as if the VAR systems work properly, as if there is no violence on the pitches.
Why does the chairman of an association have to occupy himself around the clock with the issue of Zahavi and the Chamber?
The obsessive preoccupation of the heads of the association with the case, planted hope among many parties interested in Zahavi's return to the national team, to continue the media discourse.
As the chairman of the association, Zoertz acted appropriately. He checked with Banyon what the possibilities were for reaching a compromise, told him that he really wanted to see Zahavi in the national team (for professional reasons, of course), and even offered to approve each player's own room in the national team during the entire campaign. Banyon politely rejected all the offers of Zoertz, he pointed out that this was a policy that he had established and made clear that it would not change.
Zoertz accepted, and this is the moment when he should have stopped engaging with Zahavi and the chamber. But the factors around him, including in the association, continued to exert tremendous pressure on him. There were those who suggested that he force Banyon and Hazan to approve Zahavi to be In a room alone in the team. These pressures led Zoertz to Zahavi's home. This is not a healthy precedent. With all due respect to Zahavi (and there is respect), since when does the chairman of an association go to a player's home to convince him to accept the conversion of the professional team?
All arrows are directed at him.
Yossi Benyon (Photo: Shlomi Gabai)
Even the rare gesture made by the chairman of the association did not make Zahabi lift the glove. Only after the visit, the chairman of the association realized that he had no one to talk to, just like President Herzog.
Those who know Zahavi well (a) needed Zoertz's visit to his home to understand that the Israeli superstar will not come down from the high tree he climbed.
During Eli Gutman's coaching period, in the midst of the Euro qualifying campaign, Zahavi was attacked in the derby by a Hapoel fan. Zahavi, like Zahavi , criticized the coach of the national team and said: "No one backed me up, I didn't hear anything from Gutman." The national coach was hurt, the media celebrated, and the feeling was that Zhabi had finished with Gutman in the national team.
But Bosnia waited and started pressuring Zahabi to apologize and return to the team.
Zahavi refused to apologize.
All the pressures put on him to calm down Gutman were of no avail.
In the end, a meeting was arranged between the two at the Dan Caesarea Hotel.
They had lunch, talked and talked, but Zahavi didn't apologize.
Neither in the personal meeting between them nor in the media.
Gutman returned Zahavi to the team.
Gutman had a fear of the media.
Industrial peace was important to him, as it was to Suertz.
On the other hand, at the beginning of Dror Kashtan's career in the national team, already in the first training camp held in Slovenia, Kashtan decided to remove the brakeman Tal Ben Haim from the camp.
Ben Haim was then a superstar and played in Chelsea.
Kashtan ignored the tremendous pressures put on him, he snapped at everyone (including the media), and sent Ben Haim home.
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Trying to maintain industrial peace.
Shino Zoertz (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)
When Moshe Hogg decided to fire Roni from Beitar Jerusalem, contrary to the opinion of Benyon, the professional manager of HaBahir, Hogg told that if he fired Roni Levy, he would resign immediately. Hogg thought that this was an idle threat and fired Levy. At that moment Benyon packed his belongings from Beit Vegan and went home. At a time when the status of the coach is at a low ebb, in a reality where the owners of the clubs have become a type of professional managers, the question is which professionals do we want to have - do we want coaches with a strong backbone, with a clear and uncompromising policy, coaches who do not count the The media, aren't they afraid of the statements of commentators and journalists, those who don't give benefits to the stars, and certainly don't bow to them, or would we like coaches who are anxious about every word that is written or said about them?
I recently wrote my professional opinion about Zahavi and the great importance of his presence in the team (on the grass and in general) in a separate column.
But with respect to his ability and importance, whoever does not know how to accept the policies and decisions of the professional team, cannot be in the national team.
And this is where the discussion ends.
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He has a strong personality.
Alon Hazan (Photo: Barney Ardov)
The transformation of the battle for the room into a battle between Benion and Zabi (and vice versa), does an injustice to coach Alon Hazan.
There is a tendency to underestimate the personality of a cantor.
The thought that the coach, so to speak, is doing Benyon's bidding is completely disconnected from reality.
With all due respect to Banyon (and there is a lot of respect), the cantor has a strong personality, very strong even, and I wish we had more coaches with a similar personality.
In addition, his mouth and his heart are equal, and this, as you know, cannot be found in trainers.
The attempt to turn the professional team's decision about sleeping in pairs as the one that caused Zahabi to leave the national team, is not connected to reality.
She is part of the storytellers show.
The team has excellent players today, a better chance than ever to qualify for a major tournament.
If Shino Zwartz wants to be a part of a historic achievement of Israeli football, he must stop messing with Zahavi's return to the national team.
As long as he continues to deal with the issue (even in rooms), he will cause damage to the team.
Zuertz is a smart man.
He knows that if he had made a decision to give Zahavi a room to himself in the national team, Banyon would have resigned at that moment.
If, nevertheless, the pressure on him continues in the coming days and the idea comes to his mind, it is important for him to know that in such a case Hazan will also resign.
What did the coach say on Monday this week in the meeting with the journalists?
"I didn't come to the national team because of the money."
For those who did not understand, the message here was clear.
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