Maor Rahmani 30/01/2021 09:15
Raz Twizer (Shahar Gross)
With all due respect to the leaders of the national league goalscoring table this season, one name stands out above them all and is marked as the next player to jump hugely from the second division to the Premier League, from the front door, and this is without a doubt 21-year-old Raz Twisser. The extremist of Hapoel Acre is leading it this season and is already being returned by the big teams of Israeli football.
Raz, the son of Itzik Twizer who was the assistant coach and coach in Acre and now runs the youth department this second season, made a significant upgrade this season, his first as a senior player, when he received credit from Eli Cohen from the beginning and justifies it in every game and game. All this after last season was still an age exception in the youth of the northern team and integrated into the senior with three goals and two assists.
Beyond his 10 goals at Leumit, which have put him at the top of the goalscoring table so far along with Julio Cesar, Yaniv Mizrahi and Idan Shemesh, he has scored a total of 13 goals and scored two in all competitions – and remember, this is an extreme, not even a striker. He plays wing in both wings, and also under the striker. Kicks on both feet but natural on the left foot. Quiet in front of the gate, knows how to position himself well and most importantly, as they used to say “smells of gates”.
“He is a very talented player, very dangerous in front of goal,” he told ONE Alon Ziv, The coach of the youth team of the Kiryat Shmona team and who coached him as the coach of Hapoel Acre two years ago. “He has a very good spatial vision. Always found in areas that are dangerous to the gate. Plays in a variety of roles, right with left foot and left with right foot. He is a player who lives on numbers and this season he also brings it. Dangerous the gate in the field, outside the field, also dangerous on the line. Not from those who get stuck there, but leave the line and cut to the middle, reaching the valley situations all the time. ”
All of this led to an offer of about NIS 450,000 from Moshe Hogg to transfer him to Betar Jerusalem, the first to keep an eye on him, and the leader in the race after him. Beyond Betar, Maccabi Haifa also followed him and sent scouts to watch him more than once or twice. However, it has not yet entered into financial negotiations with Hapoel Acre. Hapoel Beer Sheva is the latest to join the list of candidates to take on Twisser, when negotiations began with Hapoel Acre chairman Keren Ben Nesher, but he is currently stuck.
It all started last summer. The talented Tweiser was invited to auditions by Yossi Benyon, the professional manager in the capital at the time. After a few days of impression, Benyon asked Acre to examine the player for a few more days and finally got two weeks at home and garden to be impressed by him. At the end of the impression, unsuccessful negotiations began, and since then – Betar continues to try and get its hands on it, so far without success.
The price tag set by Hapoel Acre now stands at NIS 1 million. After a low bid from Celebrate during the past half season, he made a much higher bid and was still rejected. Although he said goodbye to Benyon in the summer, the owners of Betar remembered very well which players the former professional manager recommended, and adopted the recommendation.
“I have known him for many years, also as a youth coach in Kiryat Shmona and I know him from the area in the north, I know what his potential is,” added Ziv, under whom Idan Nachmias, Uri Dahan, Ziv Morgan, Omer Lakau, Rotem Hatuel, Abdullah Haliel and Guy passed. Ben Lulu. “In Acre, he trained with us from the youth, integrated, and when he was not playing with us he was in the youth. He became very strong. At the beginning of the season, I threw him into the water here and there and realized that we could continue to give him chances.”
“Every season he makes good progress, got stronger and got minutes of play with the seniors. Last season he became a player who plays more, this season you already see his superiority in the national league, he pulls Acre forward this season. This is a player who can provide numbers wherever he plays, just like that. “As someone who has promoted several players in KS and knows how to identify potential, he is completely one of those, he can easily find himself in a good team in the Premier League in the first stage, and for him the sky is the limit.”
While the other teams that were interested are still waiting and waiting for developments, not in a hurry to make such moves in such a corona season, there were also those who sent messages to Acre that they will not be tempted to compromise on Betar’s offer to make their own move. Those interested and not advanced, at least for now, are Maccabi Petah Tikva Bnei Yehuda, ONE also learned, an Austrian team also examined the possibility of joining him, but the player himself preferred to exhaust options rather than be blinded, as he believes that he needs to step up, and that he is not yet ready to leave for Europe.
“To go forward he needs to improve his body volume a bit and also change rhythms in the game, with the ball he knows things that are hard to teach and dangerous things always happen, but without the ball he needs to improve a bit,” concluded Ziv, who also scored a goal for Twisser. “I’m sure he will do it. He will need to be more intense when the ball is not necessarily in his foot. Understand the need and requirement while playing. It is seen all over the world that the line players are very dominant and move and move the game, and he plays that way as well. “
“This season or summer he will in my opinion take the next step. He will go far. I emphasized his discipline in the game, but I realized that there was someone to trust. This is a kid who knows how to learn and listen, thinks only of football, is ‘hungry for a goal’. See it in his games. This is a trait that takes him forward, and more will take. He has always excelled, in every age group, also in graduates in Leumit and I believe he will excel in the future as well. “
