Summary of the 1:1 match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa (Sport1)
Alon Hazan appears for this holiday interview after returning from a memorial service for a close friend who died during the Corona period.
You get proportions when you come back from the cemetery, probably after two weeks of a team where you stole a lot.
"I try to live my life, certainly in recent years, in a more proportional way. I know how to find my balance in life. I don't feel good about myself with those who compliment me and I don't feel bad with those who criticize me. I don't get excited by anyone who talks about me. Precisely at this time in our country, everyone should do a house check on themselves. We are before Passover. People check the leaven at home, but they don't remove the leaven from themselves. We all cry about the situation in the country, but we all have a part in the situation in the country. And believe me, I live in peace With criticism and provided that the criticism is factual. Everyone is competing here to see who will criticize more radically, hurt more, offend more and that's a shame. It affects our entire society. When I recognize self-interested criticism, I don't take it into account. I have serious people around me who understand football and from whom I hear criticism And builds myself and the continuation. I don't relate to the detractors. We will do good things in the rest of the campaign. Trust me."
"We will do good things later in the campaign. Trust me" (Photo: Barney Ardov)
15 years ago you made a decision to leave the league and move to the national teams.
Did these two weeks of harsh criticism strengthen your decision to leave team training?
"Even in the national teams, I have received criticism here and there. Even if I return to the leagues, I will always remember not to be as volatile as those who criticize me. After all, in Maccabi Haifa's less good times, they say that perhaps Barak Becher has lost it, and he is the best and most successful Israeli coach. There is no need to get excited too much".
Alon Hazan of 15 years ago, how would he have felt in the face of harsh criticism?
"Probably I would have taken it harder then. Today I know how to be more whole with myself and know that I have my own path. Criticism will not drop me into the abyss and praise will not lift me to the top. I will accept criticism. I will not accept slander."
Of everything written or said about you, what was the most offensive?
"I'll tell you something, since I was appointed coach I don't watch any TV programs. Not the sports news, not the press offer. But I see that my son is hurt for me and it's a bit disturbing. It's harder for me that my son is hurt for me from the slanders. My mother takes it hard. My son And my daughter takes it hard. I'm less so. I know there are people who slander just to be relevant. That's their style."
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were left out of the squad this time.
Saba and Zahabi (Photo: Yossi Tsipakis)
They say that you didn't invite Dia Saba because he didn't apologize to you.
They say you concocted a story about a room with Eran Zahavi so he wouldn't be on the team.
It may be that the insinuations that you take players from M.S.
Ashdod because you live in the city and are close to Jackie Ben Zaken, are they the ones that bother you the most?
"Who can dispute the fact that I invited Hamudi Canaan and gave him minutes against Kosovo? All the big teams want him and he is in good shape. What did they want, for him to give a performance in the quarter of an hour he played when he was a young man who is just getting stronger? I decided to let the young people play with the consideration that we will earn them In the next ten years. But you know what? I'd rather they criticize me and not Hammoudi Canaan. I want the players to feel that I believe in them and that I will absorb the criticism that I let them play."
What do you regret about these two games?
Maybe you were wrong when you didn't go up with Oskar Gloch in Switzerland?
After all, we were left without a central player who could create a situation
"In all his games for the national team, Jaber reached the opponent's penalty area more than any other player. His offensive side is significant. He thinks ahead. His figures are very high in the distance he does in every game. I wanted us to grab balls and go forward with him quickly. I also wanted him because of his defensive ability His, but also because he knows how to go forward. I have no complaints about his game. At halftime, I brought in Oscar and Shagib Yehezkel thinking that we could equalize, but we hadn't started the second half yet, it was already 3:0."
"I brought Gloch in, but the half hadn't started yet and it was already 3:0" (Photo: Barney Ardov)
I can't find an identity for this team.
What characterizes her?
After all, this is not an athletic team, not a defensive team, not Zahavi's team, who was a scorer at the highest level.
I left these games confused
"We have played six official games so far. Four Nations League games and now Kosovo and Switzerland. For me our identity is character. We fell behind in most games and came back. In Switzerland it was the only time we did not bring our character. There are many brilliant players in the team, but What we have is character. The loss to Switzerland will not deceive me or confuse me. These players will show that this team is fun."
There is not a large supply of good Israeli footballers and yet five good players are not in the national team.
How did we get to this point?
"It is very easy to create a problem of players. It is very easy to constantly say here is a group of players that Alon Hazan and Yossi Benyon did not invite on purpose, but let's get down to the details. I invited Mons Davor when all the people attacked me and sent me messages. I separated politics from the team and chose Mons He made his personal decision and I respect it. He got up one morning and decided not to be part of the team. I didn't like it. I didn't want him to be out. I tried to give him the best feeling, but he made his decision."
And noble?
"Atzili had his own personal story. I summoned him when the whole world attacked me and today when he is not in the national team because of a petition by the women's organizations that made him not want to enter once again into the story that was and from his point of view it was important for him to end it already and detach from what was and that is right from his point of view, so they say why He is not in the national team. All those who attacked why Azili is in the national team, are today attacking why he is not in the national team."
"I summoned him and I was attacked, now they say why is he not in the team."
Atzili (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
And what about seven?
"I checked the data of the team. The entire campaign of Willy Rothensteiner he was not in the team. He was not a part and I did not hear the voices against. I did not speak a word with Dia. He chose to announce that he did not want to be invited. That's it. It is very easy to make a cake from all the ingredients, but We didn't expel anyone from the team. As soon as they chose not to be in the team, I prefer not to mess with them and believe me I am full of respect for the players. The only players that interest me are the ones that are with us. For me, anyone who did not want to be, is not part of the team. I am more interested in Abdah who was injured, Kartsev, Goldberg and Sephori who were injured. Nor did you hear that I mentioned those who were injured, because I never deal with those who are missing. I will always try to use those who are there and not those who are not. We are always better in those who are not in the team."
You touched on all of them and didn't mention Eran Zahavi
"Dusho on the subject so much. The subject is worn out, isn't it?".
Let's try to touch on the point and I come from a place where I think Eran should have accepted your condition for sleeping in pairs.
I had a conversation with a national team player from Eran's era and he told me that it didn't bother anyone that he slept alone, as long as he saved the national team with doubles and triples "Spare me this bullshit. A
player said and a player said. One says this and one says another. Don't look for justifications For unrelated things. There is a way and it should be uniform for everyone and if we decided on a way it doesn't matter what player X said. No player should say whether he cares or not, because he can tell you one thing and say something else to someone else. What a bad thing we did when we wanted to That players sleep together in the rooms? There is a policy and you have to stick to it and not set conditions. Once it reached the conditions, it was irrelevant."
On Zahavi: "Once it reached the conditions, it was irrelevant" (Photo: Danny Maron)
Can we once and for all understand why you decided this way?
"As soon as we included young players in the team, we wanted everyone to see that they all come from the same point. We wanted to give the young people the message that everyone is equal in everything and it seems that the starting point is that we form a team of young and old people through the rooms. We wanted to produce something more of a team. To convey confidence to the young people as well. True There are players with more seniority, it is true that there are players with more status, but that the starting point is equal. That everyone sleeps together with everyone else. There was no intention to tell Beavers to go home or Eran to go home."
I've seen everything from everything in football and you can't say that something can't happen and yet, it can be said that as long as you're Yossi Benion in the national team, Eran Zahavi can't come back?
"Right now we're after games and I'm not thinking too far ahead. Right now I'm only thinking about drawing conclusions from the pair of games and analyzing them."
The one that my father Zahavi, his brother, called you rags, can pass?
"I am not responsible for people's mouths. Whoever speaks in this style, it does not respect him. I know that if my son or someone close to me dares to say harsh things to anyone who criticizes me, they will be in a very serious problem with me. I am responsible for the people who are close to me. I One cannot be responsible for others. Only after people come and cry about where we have come, that they will remember that we brought the country to this place. Our country is a land of milk and honey, only the people who live here turn it into something else, unfortunately."
"Benyon can tell me anything and he is still careful not to interfere" (Photo: Udi Tsitiat)
There was a lot of fiddling with Yossi Benyon's instructions from the stands.
Follow him and say that it undermines your authority as a coach
"Yossi Benyon has never interfered with my professional authority. Yossi sits up like Willy Rothensteiner sat up during Andy Herzog's time and said that we are coming at us too much from the right or someone looks a little tired. Yossi has never called a substitute in his life that one. Yossi can tell me everything before games, during games and after games as my assistant Alon Harzi can do it. It's not Yossi's style to send such messages from above. He even tries not to interfere before games because it's not him. And I tell you Liosi has the freedom to tell me anything and he is nevertheless careful not to interfere at all. People try to hurt all the time because that is what they are looking for."
You talked a lot about the fact that we don't understand what kind of country we have and that we miss it.
Could it be that Miguel Vitor sees in us what we don't?
"If you want to know what's really going on with you, go outside and see things from the outside. Miguel Vitor has found a home here. He is a professional at the highest level there is. He is one who can teach our players what culture is and what commitment is. He acts as if he was born in the country and feels pride to represent it. We think we know everything, but Miguel Vitor teaches us differently. We also have Israelis in the team who know the job no less, but without a doubt he is an asset."
At the next meeting Andorra and Belarus will be waiting for us and we will have to score 6 points.
With the fitness that Eli Dessa and others have achieved, it is not certain that we will take the full points
"Eli Dessa is one of the safest stocks in the national team in recent years. He is aware that he did not display the ability expected of him. But he is a professional and he also does not feel comfortable with what he displayed. I am convinced that he will bring in the future what we expect from him."
Maybe we put too much on Manor Solomon's shoulders because he was also less good.
"Manor Solomon alone will not be enough. Liel Abda alone will not be enough and neither will Oscar Gloch. Manor Solomon is an asset to the team but if we are not connected and bring character, we will not win. Manor is a player who will lead together with others to achievements in the years to come."
"Solomon Menor is an asset, but alone it will not be enough" (Photo: Barney Ardov)
What can Alon Hazan bring in four training days?
What can a team coach bring in such a short time before a game?
"It's difficult. In terms of training, not much. But there is content in the meetings, there are things we convey to them and messages we bring to bring them to a high level of commitment."
What was the moment you enjoyed the most in these two weeks?
"One of the things that made me feel this whole time was the evening of the national team players who called Beavers without him knowing what they were preparing for him. They brought him into the room and prepared a special shirt for him on which they wrote and signed, everyone stood and told him things from the heart. It was exciting to show one of the players The seniors in our football show the appreciation and admiration they have for him. There aren't many moments like the moment he was in the hotel. A clean and pure moment and it's one of the happiest moments I've experienced. More even than Dor Peretz's goal. Dor's goal got us back into the game and this moment against Beavers made me understand why I want Actually stay in this game."
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