Tikteknu: clip summarizing today's events in sport, 22.3/Sport1
1.
Just before the game, during the song of hope, everyone stood together in a long, very long line.
The professional team, the extended team of assistants, the administrative team, the logisticians and fitters, the pair of analysts, the medical team, the bench players, and all kinds of other special officials who accompany the Israeli national team.
In the booth of honor sat Shino Zoertz, the chairman of the association, and his deputy, Moran Meiri, and not far from them, chef Eitan Mizrahi.
Besides the players on the grass, the entire Israeli force numbered about 60 professionals. Each of them has a specific role. Jean Telesnikov, One of the team's players in the past, the one who joined the team in Budapest as part of the 'Legends of the Past' project, looked from the booth of honor in amazement. "In our time we didn't enjoy all these teams, we didn't have analysts, nothing, today modern football is in a completely different place," said Telesnikov. "Today's players in the national team enjoy the same conditions as the major teams in Europe.
That's how it is.
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, on the field, resembles a healthy person whose condition has deteriorated and reached a state of system collapse? Really why?
Except for one half against Switzerland, and one half against Romania, the Israeli national team was for a long time in this campaign in the intensive care unit. Once the specialists in the media tried to tell us that his return of Eran Zahavi for the national team will be our best and fastest medicine for renting the ticket to the Euro, once they tried to sell us a fake prescription that Yossi Bennion actually runs a small bookkeeping, a kind of old-new account closing, and the coach, Alon Hazan, whom he chose, is just a puppet. They
also tried to sell For us, the various interns, because we were given an easy home. As if what kind of team do we even have. On the one hand, all the interns are dismantling Israeli football and complaining non-stop about the poor level of our league, of our players, and at the same time want the patient to get up on his feet and leave the intensive care unit only thanks to paracetamol or liquid Opthalgin
You have to confess, and tell the patient the truth.
At least that's what the law requires.
The Israeli national team is sick.
During this campaign there were signs that the disease would worsen.
There were options not to end up in the intensive care unit, but there were quite a few events on the way that led to the difficult findings that became clear on Thursday in Budapest.
The Israeli national team is in a system collapse and there is serious concern for its future.
This is not another surgical operation, nor a professional committee to investigate the collapse, nor taking responsibility.
The team's problem is much more serious than the doctors tell us.
Even if we were close to the patient and saw his condition up close.
very close.
Shino Zwartz remained in the booth of honor for several minutes after the whistle to end the game.
He grabbed his head, he looked at the floor, he wished in those moments an El Al plane landed in the stadium parking lot to fly home.
Zoaretz believed that he would take off on Sunday to Bosnia or Poland, and now he is forced to stay with the team for a weekend in Budapest and break his head again, what do we do?
They sold us that the situation is good.
Alon Hazan/Reuters
2.
The feeling among many in Israel is complete shock.
And not only because of the loss, actually the defeat, to the Iceland team.
But from the way, from the level, from the poor ability that our team presented.
It's true, we don't have a big team, and the Iceland team is not the lions of football in Europe, but if we're being honest, why would our players surpass themselves in the fateful game if during the campaign they were dark?
Why should our players be held responsible if throughout most of the campaign they were negligent?
Why would we be able to keep the advantage and go down satisfied at half time if it happened to us many times in the campaign?
And not just the current one.
For a long time, the Israeli national team was in a kind of system collapse, only no one dared to perform a CT scan in time to diagnose the painful problem.
What happened to us against Kosovo in the opening match, also happened to us against Romania twice.
And it happened to us in Kosovo as well.
And it also happened now against Iceland.
The alarming findings accompanied us from the first moment.
Actually also long before the current campaign.
Now maybe the pain is greater, much greater.
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The address was on dear.
Gudmundsson scores against Glaser/Reuters
3.
Let's get back to the game.
Even before the whistle, there was a kind of consensus regarding the criticism leveled at Alon Hazan regarding the lineup.
Lema Kanikovski and Kinda in the lineup, and Lema Abu Fani and Neta Lavi on the bench.
And the main criticism was regarding the decision to keep Oskar Gloch on the bench.
The criticism was legitimate, after the game it took on a much greater meaning.
Alon Hazan's decision to go with Eran Zahavi in the first team, caused him to change the team's entire game plan.
According to the plan, everyone was supposed to provide golden balls for our top scorer to score and lead us to the playoff final.
Hazan wanted to have two players on the wings (Halaili and Turjeman) who defend non-stop, and he believed that even without Gloch, the formation he chose would provide Zahabi with enough chances to score.
In summary, Zahavi received one ball.
or two.
With all due respect to Gloch (and there is a lot of respect), his place should have been in the lineup, that's clear, but in my opinion, Hazan's biggest mistake was the decision to give up Abu Fani and Neta Lavi in the lineup.
Especially against a sturdy, strong and athletic team, much more than us.
There were games where great players came off the bench and the team did not end a game in catastrophe.
Iceland didn't break us up because Gloch wasn't in the lineup.
The line-up was not balanced, but it must be admitted that all the players did not deliver the goods, and it is impossible to put the whole bag on Hazan's litter to leave Gloch on the bench.
Against the Iceland team, even in the lineup that started the game, the Israel team had to look different.
Also the result.
From the goalkeeper, to the striker, our team was in a system collapse.
Yes, the collapse was also on the lines.
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Abu Fani had to open, so did Neta Lavi/Reuters
4.
We are the world champions in titles.
Not just headlines, bombastic headlines.
All the interns, even those who contributed to the collapse of the systems, are now busy with only one thing - who will be the next national team coach?
Before Shino Zoertz starts the talks regarding the establishment of a professional committee, before he even starts thinking about the candidates he has in mind, he has to make a decision.
Alone, or together with the relevant factors in the association.
Not the employers, not the associates on behalf of, nor those who are responsible (directly or indirectly) for our admissions to the intensive care unit.
First, Zoertz has to decide if Yossi Benyon continues in his position as a professional manager.
If so, Banyon should be assigned the task of appointing the next national coach.
Benyon's contract cannot be extended when others choose the coach.
If you already want to be professionals, like in Europe, then you have to act according to the rules.
in Europe.
And if they decide not to extend Banyon's contract, one should think about whether the national team needs a professional manager at all.
Only after Szwartz decides what exactly he wants, should the process regarding the selection of the next coach begin.
It is true that Bennion took responsibility, Bennion is at the head of the professional system, but it is important to discuss the question: What was the professional manager's contribution to the national team, beyond the failure of the current campaign on the grass?
We need to think and decide do we want to return to a time when senior businessmen had the effect of calling up players to the national team?
Do we want to return to a time when journalists and commentators had a great influence on the professional decisions of national team coaches?
And if Zoertz decides that it is necessary to continue with the function of a professional manager for the senior team, is it appropriate to replace a professional manager at the end of each campaign.
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5.
Many names of coaches have been thrown into the air since the end of the match in Budapest, the pressure campaign of journalists, commentators, businessmen, agents and all kinds of boosters have already started working in the field.
Zoertz needs to know how to neutralize everyone and take time for himself to think.
Maybe also a professional committee, maybe a forum of professionals who are not infected, those who only see the good of the national team before their eyes.
The truth is, we've tried everything over the years.
Coaches with impressive achievements in the league, in Europe, foreign coaches, coaches under professional managers.
Everything from everything.
The chance that bettors who will again bet on the failure of the Israeli national team will reap handsome profits is high.
very tall.
So maybe it's time to say without shame: we have a weak league, we have mediocre players, we don't have players for whom the national team is above the team, we don't have enough patriotic players.
This does not mean that after the failure against Iceland players were not severely disappointed.
They were disappointed.
But their dream of going down in history and playing in the Euros is much greater than their desire to see the Israeli national team advance to the Euros.
And this is exactly the problem that led to the collapse of systems that culminated in Iceland.
Alon Hazan made a mistake in the lineup, he also delayed with the substitutions, Yossi Benyon did good things and less good things, but the bottom line - we don't have a team.
It is not a matter of bad luck, nor a judge who hates Israel, nor even the injury of Manor Solomon.
We are not good enough.
And not in football.
And a word to Zuertz: he must ignore the media's pressure regarding the hiring of a national coach.
The phenomenon of violence on the fields, the problematic disciplinary regulations that exist, and the urgency of establishing a sports court and a comprehensive reform by Sports Minister Miki Zohar, are the really burning issues.
The issue of appointing a coach for the Israeli national team can wait.
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