Eran Zahavi in an interview after the loss of Maccabi Tel Aviv to Hapoel Jerusalem (Sport 1)
One of the most used phrases in the world of Israeli sports is "Maccabism".
He is devastated because both the lovers and the haters of Maccabi Tel Aviv use him too often, sometimes without justification.
Maccabiism is the answer to every advantage or disadvantage that the club has, an answer that is too easy, concise and unreasoned.
Why this way and why otherwise?
Because Maccabism and Maccabism and for dessert more Maccabism.
The mention of Maccabiism is hated, wasted and chewed.
Therefore, let's talk about what is not Maccabees, let's try to put it in one sentence that will represent the whole idea of.
ready?
So like this:
insert Dan Glazer and Dor Peretz instead of Gabi Kanikowski and Parfa Giagon in the 58th minute with a 0:1 lead over Hapoel Jerusalem in Bloomfield.
exact definition.
Eran Zahavi (Photo: Danny Maron)
When Eran Zahavi was asked by Ra'anan Baranovski on Sport1 what is not working, he said "in one word: everything".
Zahavi is known as one whose mouth and heart are equal.
Unlike stormy graduation interviews, this time he actually answered patiently, calmly and calmly.
That's one way to describe it.
Another definition, no less accurate and perhaps even more so, is "defeated".
Zahavi looked submissive, embarrassed, realized that this was it, the story of Maccabi Tel Aviv was over.
He didn't use the well-known bullshit like "we'll fight until the last round" or "from now on every game is a cup final".
Zahavi knows that despite two more meetings with Maccabi Haifa and two more with Hapoel Beer Sheva, his club is out of the championship fight.
Sorry, did we say out?
He wasn't there to begin with, but until last night at least there was such an illusion.
When Zahabi said that everything was not working, he included the management, the players and the audience.
The fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv are not to blame and he knows it too.
This is an army that fills Bloomfield in every game and that came en masse to develop hope for the game against Ness Ziona when it sensed that there was a revival.
The Zhabi has a built-in anti for booing (remember the throwing of the captain's ribbon?), but it can be assumed that he used the crowd to blunt the criticism towards the other members of the team.
Whether it was his job to do so or not, he pointed out a correct point - there are many players in Maccabi Tel Aviv who should not be there, it has a dysfunctional management, which has chosen unsuitable professionals and which has put in a wing-beating staff, literally, which is unable to meet expectations .
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who is to blame?
Rarash Ilya (Photo: Danny Maron)
Take Rarsh Ilya as an example.
Ilya arrived from Nice on loan for four months.
At first he didn't participate at all, then he got minutes here and there, in the cup semi-final rematch, a game for the record, he started and was weak, which sent him back to the bench.
Say it's happening?
It happens, of course, players who arrive in January have a hard time getting into things, but at Maccabi Tel Aviv they simply don't get them into things.
They arrive, dry off and before you say "Urosh Nikolic" finish their way in the club without impact.
There is the example of Jovanovich who came on as a substitute two days after his arrival and scored a winning goal (after spending a fortune and arriving fit, unlike Ilya who came on loan and not fit), but foreigners of Maccabi Tel Aviv who arrive in the winter transfer window do not tend to find themselves in the system.
This is true, by the way, for the coaches as well.
Is everyone not good enough or is the club to blame?
Probably both.
Maccabi Tel Aviv went up to the game yesterday with the shirts of 1978/9.
After that season came 13 difficult years without a real fight for the title.
At the moment it is a club with a lot of holes, one that is starting to remind those teams of the eighties.
Her problem is not the fictitious battle of 2022/23, but the championship battle of the next five years.
It has no infrastructure, it has no proper management, there is only despair.
The exact same desperation that emanated from Zahavi's eyes.
Exactly what Maccabi Tel Aviv lacks.
Tovmasi (photo: Barney Ardov)
Pride - this is the great sin of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Take Patrick Twamasi as an example.
At the end of the 2021/22 season, it was reported that Maccabi Tel Aviv was interested in the player.
The team has done quite a bit of business with Eyal Segal in the past, it is likely that they would have come to an agreement if they really wanted to, but go pay Maccabi Netanya a million euros for a player they brought for free thanks to good scouting.
How will such a move be received in Canada?
It's not that Tomasi (a February signing, by the way) shone in Netanya in the first part of the season.
A severe injury to the gluteal muscle led to a decrease in his ability, until he woke up and picked up the group.
Now, imagine him in Maccabi Tel Aviv, with renewed energies and the support of 25 thousand fans every week.
Wouldn't he have made a difference as a speedy winger, just the kind she lacks today?
In the Premier League there are many more good foreigners who can be pulled out on paper.
It is still too early to determine what Mark Costa is really worth, but it is likely that even if Benny Reina goes down, the striker who left her with a hat-trick yesterday a chance to stay in the league, will be snapped up by a team in the first division, in Israel or elsewhere.
Zakaria Mogis is someone worth keeping an eye on, Nenad Cvetkovic has proven that he is a top stopper, Yoon Nicolasco will continue at Beitar, but with the right constellation he can arrive. And of course, Tovmasi himself is not yet 30 years old. Will any of them find themselves at Maccabi Tel Aviv? Don't count on it.
Get on the wave.
Rothman (photo: Barney Ardov)
Football is a fluid business.
Sometimes half a bad season is enough to destroy a career.
Success in the Premier League after wandering for years in the lower ranks is an arduous task, almost impossible.
The name of the game is patience, and who has patience these days?
Liran Rothman is already 26 years old, Guy Badash is 28 years old. Both of them moved around, signed and loaned, shuffled between the top of the national league and the bottom of the Premier League, until they reached the right station.
Badash signed as a free agent with Hapoel Jerusalem when it was in Laomit and became one of the team's key players.
Like the whole team, he started the season well and weakened in the second round.
When it seemed that the top playoffs were getting further away, Badash broke a streak of nine games without a win when he scored 0:1 against Ness Ziona, he also scored in the 2:2 against Hapoel Haifa and yesterday, within three minutes, he probably became the man who signed the Reds' promotion to the playoffs the top
Rothman was another of Beitar Jerusalem's lean signings, when he joined as a free agent in 2020/21. He didn't really show up in a team with a lot of background noise. In Maccabi Netanya, on the other hand, it looks different. He has an industrial quiet with which he was able to rise On the wave. With a goal that helped beat Maccabi Tel Aviv, one that helped knock Maccabi Haifa out of the cup and yesterday's double, it seems that he is doing well at Maccabi Netanya. We can only hope that this trend, of Maccabi Netanya in general and his in particular, will continue.
The judges got used to silence the whistle (photo: Barney Ardov)
I don't know how many of you have seen Umm Al Fahm's equalizer in Rishon Lezion, but this is a disgrace of a referee's decision, when Aviv Amdorski approved Kobi Mor's goal despite a clear foul on goalkeeper Dor Hebron.
Earlier, Rishon LeZion's Mohamed Bamba was fouled in the area and here the whistle blew as well.
Soccer with VAR and soccer without VAR are two completely different games.
So different, that it seems that the purpose of umpiring in the National League is to remind us how terrible it was before the system, with all its shortcomings, came into play.
You don't need VAR to disallow Umm Al Fahm's goal and you don't need VAR to whistle Bamba's penalty.
But the system also exists for these cases, where "it's not necessary" and yet the judge is wrong.
Amdorski, by the way, is not alone.
Every week, horrible refereeing decisions accompany the matches in the national team.
The problem, it seems, is that the referees, even at the lower level, have become accustomed to silence the whistle.
So in the Premier League it is correctable, but in the national team after every whistle, and especially no whistle, there is no going back.
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