Watch the incident: Bnei Sakhnin fans disrespect the anthem, and continue to cheer demonstratively even during the singing of "Hatikva"/Walla!
Hapoel Hadera achieved a dramatic and super important victory last night, after beating Bnei Sakhnin 0:1, with a winning goal by Elad Madmon deep in extra time.
Hadera's men celebrated the victory that brought them above the red line, both on the grass and for many minutes in the dressing room, when everyone in the club is clear that for them the lower playoffs started yesterday.
Despite the great joy, even after the final whistle, Hadera's people had trouble calming down from two unusual and shameful incidents that occurred during the game, after the Sakhnin fans first disgraced the ceremony of playing the national anthem and later also booed and cursed Hadera's captain, Menashe Zelka, who came on as a substitute in the second half.
Zeleka received curses and insults from Sakhnin fans who also booed him every time he touched the ball.
The word karma was said quite a few times by the people of Hapoel Hadera, who were very happy about Medmon's winning goal, on the verge of the final whistle.
Celebrated after the game.
Menashe Zalka with the fans/Shlomi Gabai
"It was simply a disgrace," said an official in her room at the end of the game.
"Despicing our national anthem is a painful, shameful and sickening thing. Sakhnin fans should not sing the national anthem, but to insult it like this, in a disgraceful way, and in a soccer game held in Israel? Where would you hear such a thing. If an audience of a foreign team were to insult you like that Our anthem in the game in Europe, we would say about this crowd that it is anti-Semitic and disgusting."
A player in Hadera commented on the humiliation of playing the anthem and said: "The behavior of the Sakhnin fans is shameful and disgraceful, but they received their punishment in the 97th minute.
There is no sweeter and more appropriate response than such a winning goal.
Let's hope that the association and the administration will pay attention to the ugly act we saw here tonight."
Regarding the whistles and contempt for his friend Menashe Zalka, the actor added: "Curse Menasha Zalka?
Are you completely crazy?
The man was in the reserves for four months, wearing a uniform, fighting together with his friends, risking his life to protect the State of Israel, me, you, and Sakhnin fans who booed him.
Instead of booing him, they should have welcomed him with baklava and flowers."
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He answered Sakhnin fans with a winning goal.
Mademon celebrates with Zalka and Silves/Shlomi Gabai
And of course there was also a professional side and three precious points, which were achieved after the dramatic victory.
Coach Haim Silves, who recorded a third win in the last five games and a total of 10 points out of a possible 15, once again received compliments from the club's staff, also for the good acquisitions made in the January window and especially for the fact that Hadera has once again become a competitive team, which does not fall behind its opponents in any game, a team that rarely loses And one that also knows how to decide games.
The goalkeeper Ohad Levita, who returned to the starting line-up since the change of coaches in the team, also received a lot of compliments at the end, especially for the penalty he missed, in a critical situation of 0:0.
"It wasn't a big game for us," admitted a club source, "but a team that is fighting for its life, needs to know how to win games like this, with teeth, with a lot of character and determination, in any possible way. We don't need compliments, we need points to stay in the league And we achieved that."
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