Hapoel Haifa tonight (Sunday) stopped Hapoel Holon’s gallop with an impressive victory, 85:96 – when at the end a confrontation developed in the center of which the chairman of Hapoel Holon, Ethan Lanciano, And coach of Hapoel Haifa, Elad Hussein.
According to Hussein and the Hapoel Haifa staff, Lanciano told him at the end: “You are a small coach at a small club.” Hussein answered Lanciano, when chairman Yuval Rossman also arrived in the area during the trial.
“If he calls me a small coach in a small team, then there is a problem here with a lack of respect, towards me and towards Hapoel Haifa as a club,” Hussein said. “There are good people in Holon who will do the accounting themselves.” Hussein, who previously coached Hapoel Holon, added: “I worked for 5 years in Holon, even in the days when there was no money and when they did not pay. It is a very important team for me, but when a chairman tells me such a thing, I can not remain silent.”
Then, Lanciano responded. “It is absurd that a coach I believed in and gave him a long-term contract tells me to be ashamed, because since he was fired from Hapoel Holon, he did not even say hello to me,” the chairman explained.
“So to be honest I’m less ashamed. Regardless, I said what I said to my coach on the side, and then everyone there started attacking me,” Lanciano claimed in his defense. “It could be that a statement was unnecessary and I apologize for that. Anyone who knows me knows how passionate I am. For me, this event is history. May everyone have success.”
Hapoel Haifa’s response: “After the game, Holon chairman Eitan Lanciano chose in an unprecedented and shameful way with statements that have no place in our industry (” small club, small coach “) the team’s coach Elad Hussein and Hapoel Haifa. As a club we denounce any such behavior that does not respect “We, and we will not accept this conduct. As a club we have engraved on our banner the value of sportiness and respect for the opponent always, we are sorry that Mr. Nitzano chose to behave in this way.”