Masai Dago dedicated last night (Monday) the victory in the season's game against Maccabi Tel Aviv to his sister Osher, an MGB fighter, who was saved from an attempted terrorist attack in Bish. A terrorist tried to grab her weapon and strangle her. The terrorist was shot, but the Dago family stormed again, and not for the first time The first this year. The preparations for the match between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv began at seven in the morning with tactical thoughts.
He was at home and at eight o'clock he received the phone call from his worried mother, who told her about the situation.
"I didn't know what to do," Dago admitted, but when he realized that his sister was safe and sound and the terrorist was eliminated, it became another crazy day in an extraordinary year for him on a personal level.
Dego sent a message to his sister at the end of the 0:2 home game and dedicated the victory to her.
Maccabi Haifa were excited for him and hugged him.
Officials at the India club said that "what Massai is going through this year could have crushed other people, it started with the death of his father, with the crazy pressure involved in coaching a club like Maccabi Haifa, a lot of potholes along the way, but he goes through everything like a lion."
After relaxing a bit, Dago continued to the hotel for the final preparations for the game.
In the personal conversations and in the assembly, he talked about the pressure game on the Maccabi Tel Aviv defense. "High pressure will lead to turnovers," said Dego, "attack them from the first moment like we did in Bloomfield." The coach's game plan worked and the game was decided after 22 minutes. At the hotel, Dego held Another significant conversation with the brakeman Abdoulaye Sak. The latter returned from the African Championship and the coach asked him about the possibility that he would play as a brakeman on the right side and not in the middle. The Senegalese said that this is exactly what he did in the African Championship, which made Dago's job more comfortable and Lorenzo Shimich started as a central brakeman in a line of three.
"This is one of the moves that won the game," they admitted in Maccabi Haifa, "everyone sent Shimich home, but Dego slowly learned how to use him and over time he saw that this is a proper stopper that suits Maccabi Haifa."
By the way, in the internal conversations, Dago watched with his team the game against Rennes in France, in which the greens lost 3:0.
In this game, Sek played as a center back and Schmich on the right.
The understanding was that if they switched between them, things would look better and that's what actually happened.
Shimich celebrates with Saif, photo: Alan Shiver
At the conclusion of the evening, Masai Dago became the first Maccabi Haifa coach since 2011 to beat Maccabi Tel Aviv twice in the regular league. This joins the victory at Bloomfield, which was also the first since that season. Dago rose with Maccabi Haifa from third place in the Europa League group stage to the conference playoffs. Lig, was the first coach in the history of the club to win an away game in the European home stage (against Panathinaikos), hoisted the title of champion of champions and, by and large, has so far been praised for his work at the Carmel club.
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"Dego succeeds because he does not deal with excuses but with hard work," they said in the club, "He could cry all day about ten injured players, but he chose to believe in everyone he has and it comes back to him in a big way. When everyone returns, the task will be no less difficult. In the struggle Directly against Robbie Keen, Masai Dago won big and with him all of Maccabi Haifa."
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