Beitar Jerusalem owner Barak Abramov attacks Yossi Abouxis at a press conference/photo: Niv Aharonson. Video editing: Shiran Golan
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First of all, thanks for the entertainment.
If we talk about the "soccer as escapism" cliché, Barak Abramov's press conference was a nice half hour in which everything was pushed aside, and Israeli soccer fans allowed themselves for a moment to dip into our hot mud again, gather in it, disconnect, and wallow in it with pleasure before returning to the real world and the oppressor.
Although football returned a long time ago, it was always heavy, under the cloud of war, with unique conditions - and here Abramov convenes the media to discuss the betrayal and spin of Yossi Abuxis, as if this is a worthy reason to stop the world, and everything is normal again for a short moment.
Closing accounts live.
Abramov/Niv Aaronson
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So what did we have there?
The owner of Beitar Jerusalem convenes a press conference after the departure of the coach Aboxis, and at the beginning of his words he says: "Beyond the fact that I lost a coach, it's on the sidelines.
I have lost a friend." With these words, Abramov actually damaged the importance and reliability of all the other things he would say later, because for him it was clarified what was the main thing, and what was at the heart of the campaign and the reasons for its gathering: they betrayed him, hurt him, tried to work on him.
I mean, leave the fact that this big team, with tens of thousands of fans, lost its coach, it's on the sidelines.
I lost a friend!
Yes, it was a revenge event, closing accounts live, a monologue of a hurt person, who doesn't really understand that the fact that he is hurt is secondary.
How is a Beitar Jerusalem fan supposed to watch the event, listen to things, and then continue as usual? Leave the elementary expectation of "knowing that the club is in good hands"; what about professional conduct at the most basic level? How can a fan be calm, when the owner admits that he has "friendship and goodwill" This is before everything"? With all due respect to the nice values, what does this have to do with football?
A Beitar Jerusalem fan just wants to win games, overcome the opposition, experience pleasure, he is not interested in the friendship and loyalty between the owner and the coach.
This continues the reports about distorted considerations in the reinforcement issue, the motives in the fight for the top playoffs, everything smells personal, problematic, not clean.
"When I transferred him to Beitar Jerusalem, I looked at what was right for Yossi Aboksis, not what was right for Abramov or Bnei Yehuda," Abramov said about the dubious move from the past, thus actually expressing a lack of understanding of the essence of his position, and the public responsibility that is expected from the owner of a football club. He understands what is wrong with what he said.
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There are so many things to say about this journey. The leaks, the media struggles, the distorted perceptions (of the term "friendship" for example, when Abramov calls Aboxis a friend and "a man who ate and drank from me for six years", i.e. paid him a salary). About the dirt The personalities and the image struggle at the expense of the team, about spins and plagiarism, about professional conversations, budgets, a third party, etc. What is interesting is the acceptance of the fan with the sad reality.
Now, for example, Aboxis is about to sign with Hapoel Tel Aviv, and we will all have to accept it naturally. Maybe one or two games there will be questions about it, but very quickly we will move on, and he will talk again about a great victory or a painful loss, refereeing errors and time additions. The Hapoel fans will also have to swallow it, because with all due respect to the resume and the past, there is a team here to manage, And she urgently needs a coach.
So let's ignore the dirty way in which he left Beitar and crossed the road with such naturalness and frivolity.
We will forget how he didn't mind hurting the team he was in for so long, and how he also did this trick in Bnei Yehuda and Be'er Sheva.
Now for a day or two his image is damaged, but very quickly one victory erases everything.
You are only as good as your last game, and only that one is remembered.
Abramov enjoys the same protection.
All the affairs of the past are not clouded, there is no public denunciation, everything continues as usual, everything is swallowed up.
The power of football, and its stupidity.
They also accepted that this is what it is, and you have to live with it.
Beitar fans/Dani Maron
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It is important to clarify, this is not an earthquake in Israeli sports.
Talk to real sports fans, people who watch football and love the Premier League, people who watch the main game, appreciate the NBA and Djokovic and the Champions League - ask them about Abramov's press conference, about the cult and the laughs, about the dirt and the party, and you will find out that it is a disturbing hardcore A very small niche, a narrow world of a few tens of thousands who watched the event and enjoyed it.
We, the people of the swamp, feel that we were granted half an hour of a direct table conversation with the owner of a group, who "came to open" as it is customary to say in our world, and spoke in a direct and honest manner, and reflected some kind of truth and reality, while also revealing what was not necessary.
How does he manage a club, how does he appoint coaches, what considerations guide him, etc.
The vast majority just glanced at the headline, recognized a little dirtiness, grinned and moved on with their lives.
We rejoiced and had fun, feeling that the event connected the people of the community, and for a moment we once again experienced camaraderie, when we looked at each other with a smile, nodded our heads, and recognized what quality slime we would discover before our eyes, how nice it is and how a stranger would not understand it.
But the truth is, it's not funny.
Just goes to show that we gave up.
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