Summary: Granada (Yeftah Ziv) - Zaragoza 70:78/Sport1
Today (Tuesday), Granada vehemently denies the claims according to which the team's former player, Yeftah Ziv, was released due to being Jewish.
In a statement, the group claims that the Israeli player "showed very little involvement" and that "he repeatedly went to the casino in Granada."
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Ziv in Granada/Official website, Granada
In an interview in Israel, Ziv implied that he was released due to being "Jewish" and claimed that his time in the group had been "suffering" since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Gaza.
The guard, who after leaving signed in France, claimed that he felt "unpleasant, both personally and professionally" in Spain, that he was "afraid to speak Hebrew on the street" and that his teammates "simply didn't support me, they abandoned me."
He even claimed that "they tried to force me to leave", Granada responded firmly: "On the sporting level alone, there was a decrease in the number of games and his importance in the team even before October 7, as can be demonstrated in the statistics".
Regarding his departure, the club emphasizes that "both the player and his agent were informed that the team was looking for a replacement for him and therefore he would not play or be called up. We knew that he was a young player and that he could find a place in another team, since the Spanish league had become too big for him."
Although he continued to train with his teammates, "the little involvement he showed in training caused a decrease in the pace, so there was no other solution than to let him train with the assistant coach, Andrea Pazila, while a way out was looked for."
The club denied they were interested in his personal situation: "All the time the club showed interest in his situation. In fact, during the team's trip to Bilbao we already knew that his father and brother had been called to participate in the conflict and that morning we learned that part of his family was going to Gaza... We were so concerned about his safety that we provided three police cars for security." .
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"The player showed zero interest"/Official website, Granada Basketball Club
Antisemitism because of being Jewish?
According to Granada, "This was never a problem, as can be seen in the sharing of former Granada player Sean Weissman after the war had already started... The club always worked for the safety of both the Israeli player and the rest of the first team. ... But the player Show zero interest."
Finally, the statement refers to Yeftah Ziv's private life, with a personal sting: "When the actor talks about anti-Semitism and the fear of speaking Hebrew, it arouses curiosity, because we know that he repeatedly went to the casino in the city and I had a social life here."
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