Benyon is the leading candidate for the position of technical director in the Football Association

Yossi Benyon is the leading candidate for the position of technical director of the youth teams in the association, after the members of the search committee marked him as the man who will fill the position. Benyon has not been active in Israeli football in recent months, since leaving the position of professional manager at Betar Jerusalem.

One of Benyon’s recommenders was Eli Ohana, a member of the search committee and chairman of Betar Jerusalem, who is familiar with his work at Beit Vagan. Beyond that, Benyon has recently gotten to know national team coach Willy Rotensteiner, who teaches the pro course in which he participates (one of Benyon’s most prominent ambitions is to coach a team abroad). To present his professional line.

Another candidate whose name came up in recent days at the search committee meetings and will be invited for an interview is Gal Alberman, head of the Maccabi Haifa scouting division, who is highly regarded among the committee members. Alberman was perceived by decision makers as a role model and captain of the big clubs he played for, such as Maccabi Tel Aviv, Betar Jerusalem and Maccabi Haifa, and was considered a potential professional who could serve as the association’s technical director for a long time. If Benyon or Alberman do not want to accept the appointment, the association will consider the possibility of a foreign technical director, but this process will be more lengthy, as happened in the past before Rotensteiner’s appointment.

As part of the technical director’s work, he will not have contact with the senior team, but he will have many powers: the technical director will be the one to select the coaches of the young teams, be responsible for the centers of excellence (operating in Ramat Gan and Ashkelon) Israeli football.