The current Hapoel Tel Aviv is the worst team in the history of the club, which recently celebrated its 100th anniversary at the beginning of the year, in a game that marked the year ahead: against a third-class team from Spain and a fourth-class ceremony without its big stars from the past.
David Mintzberg had good intentions and maybe if a war had not broken out here he would have succeeded in implementing them.
In practice, there is a good chance that Mintzberg will sign the dissolution of Hapoel and its restart in the third league.
Chen Sol, a nice person by all accounts, is the late Yaakov Adler of Israeli football in general and of Hapoel Tel Aviv in particular.
The young among us will be told that Adler built the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team, which lost the championship for the first time after 23 consecutive years, and was replaced just before the end of the season.
The trauma was so great that Adler repented shortly after and subsequently disappeared from Israeli basketball.
Chen Sol's script looks similar.
After this season either he will leave football or football will leave him.
Hapoel Tel Aviv went through 15 years of sleepwalking owners. Fantasists with a good heart, but with a serious confusion between imagination and reality. Some invested more, some less, but mostly they postponed the end. And the end came in January 2024, when the group suffered more than 20 goals in one month. When Hapoel Tel Aviv was a big team, this was the number they would score in almost an entire season.
Hapoel Tel Aviv lost its soul a long time ago.
The season with American owners, who don't even understand what the verb is, is just the final stamp.
I watched her young fans jumping in the Sami Ofer stands without shirts in this cold and I thought to myself, soon they will have a girlfriend, then some of them will go to the army, become young people and then parents.
If they lead a proper lifestyle, within a decade Hapoel Tel Aviv will be distant history for them, a memory of their youth that they occasionally come to see play in the national league against Kfar Qasem for example.
The hottest sports articles and updates at your place on Telegram
to join
This is the fate of Hapoel Tel Aviv.
No titles, no victories in derbies, no proper youth department, but with thousands of fans whose lives have taken a wrong turn and they continue to chase the only victories their team has to offer: flares and backdrops.
were we wrong
We will fix it!
If you found an error in the article, we would appreciate it if you shared it with us