Eliniv Barda, the "surprise guest" on Walla's show "Dribble"/"Dribble"
Just before the start of the top playoffs, Hapoel Beer Sheva coach Eliniv Berda was a guest on Walla's "Dribbble" program, and referred to the games expected for his team, the next coach of the team and his big dream at the club.
On the pain of the national team's loss: "Like everyone else. There was a mistake, but it's already history, it can't be fixed now."
On Hapoel Beer Sheva ahead of the playoffs: "We will play the best football we can, we will try to score as many points as possible, and in the middle is the cup game, which is very important for the club. But right now everything is draining to the first game, we are hosting Hapoel Haifa, whose team we lost to It's been a long time, so we'll have to open the playoffs in the best possible way."
Would you like to be the Alex Ferguson of Hapoel Beer Sheva?
Barda: "In one word: yes"/Kubi Eliyahu
Is the first round still on your mind?
If you had achieved slightly higher success rates, could you be in the race for the championship today?
"Very much," Berda admitted, "We were very hurt from the first round, and we fixed it, we made a lot of repairs, but it's still not enough. 60 percent success in the first round would have put us in the fight, but we are where we are, and we want to rise from here."
Does the season live up to expectations?
"I always want to strive and reach the maximum possible. Expectations are a beautiful thing, but in the end you have to get the most out of the team and the players, and we hope to do that until the end of the season."
On the expectations of the crowd:
"The crowd wants, and the crowd is the best thing Hapoel has in Beer Sheva. I know Beer Sheva, and I remember much worse years, when the team stayed in the league in the last round, and now there is an exceptional decade in terms of success, and we will try to continue it."
On the uproar surrounding the reduction of points in the Premier League: "I'm less concerned with it, it doesn't concern my team. I would always want what the players work on on the field to be reflected in the table, the players who earned points and worked for them, the points deserve them. But it's not my job to bother with that."
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Against the background of the expected appointment of Barak Becher, is the national team really a graveyard for coaches?
"The Israeli national team is a great honor. All the candidates, including Barak, are worthy and can do an excellent job. This is not a cemetery, but a great honor."
Does he aspire to the position?
"Katunati, I'm not there yet, I still have a long way to go," says Barda.
And if you get an offer to be an assistant?
"No offense, the team is always above everything."
On Tomer Yousfi: "I didn't call for his call-up to the team, but I thought he deserved a place in the team. He made progress and breakthrough this year, and of course he is on loan from Beer Sheva, and as they did in other teams, for example Maccabi Tel Aviv with Dor Peretz, who went to Hapoel and Haifa and returned, won in the championship, went abroad, played in the national team - I think this could be a similar path to Tomer."
Would you like to be the Alex Ferguson of Hapoel Beer Sheva? Barda: "In one word: yes."
According to him, "Already when I was a soccer player, I started thinking As a coach, and the transition was natural and quick.
It's true that with experience you develop more thoughts, but even in my last years as a player I thought like a coach."
On the biggest drama in his life, that heartbreaking event in training, which led to his retirement: "It changed my whole life.
End to end.
From one who gets up in the morning and goes running without thinking twice and sport is his life, to one who has to be careful, take pills, be on guard all the time, but okay, I thank God for everything, everything is okay.
I really wanted to go back to playing, but I couldn't find a doctor who would agree to sign."
Can Amir Ganach be included in the list with Gloch and Halaili, and be sold from Beer Sheva to Europe for a lot of money? Barda: "First of all, he is on his way there.
He still has a lot of work to do.
He is still in his youth, and proves that he deserves the minutes.
He can definitely be a player who can develop to the highest levels and be sold to Europe."
Fantasize about reaching the Champions League with Beer Sheva? "It's a dream, but for that you have to win a championship in Israel.
I wish I could see it.
A championship is always the ambition."
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