Maor Rahmani 31/01/2021 15:30
Osher Davida (Noam Moreno)
Happiness Davida Taste from the senior team of Hapoel Tel Aviv two years ago. He moved from the synthetic field in the Khodorov complex to the alumni complex under Kobi Refuah and was marked as one who is supposed to rub in the lower playoffs, ahead of his regular promotion the following season. But things did not work out as planned at Wolfson, with the Reds promising to stay just one round before the end of the season. This was not the time for opportunities for young people.
At 20:00, Davida will meet Refuah and Kiryat Shmona at Bloomfield Stadium for a game in which Hapoel Tel Aviv will seek to continue its positive momentum, and its survival campaign that was officially launched last Saturday but received a serious boost on Tuesday, with the victory over Betar Jerusalem achieved Thanks to Omri Altman’s beautiful touch and no less – Davida’s great cooking.
And what a week passed for Davida. Beyond cooking that set up three precious and critical points for Nir Klinger and the Reds, the 19-year-old winger received an offer to move to Polish side Legia Warsaw for about half a million euros for half his player card, as revealed on ONE, asked the owner to go to Europe and progress but was refused.
“Indeed, an offer was also received for Osher Davida – and it was rejected,” Hapoel Tel Aviv officially announced immediately afterwards. “Due to the professional situation we found ourselves in, the club’s management decided not to negotiate the sale of players until the end of the season. “From what was accepted for happiness, it will be rejected. The club’s management will help as much as it can and will certainly not prevent the players from developing and realizing their dream of playing in Europe, although we believe this is not the right time – and at this point the issue is not on the agenda.”
However, the Poles are expected to make another offer to join Davide, who has been following him since last season. John Park followed, to be exact. The man behind the offer and the desire to add the extremist to Legia is the Scottish footballer, who currently serves as head of the club’s international scouting division from Warsaw and is in excellent contact with Davida’s agent, Dudu Dahan, who has even made several deals with him in the past. Among other things, the signing of Nir Bitton, Biram Kiel and Rami Gershon at Celtic, then worked as its scout. He also advised the former CEO of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Ben Mansford, during his time in Israel and is well acquainted with the Israeli market in general.
In the same breath, if the offer goes up and the Reds can enrich the club’s coffers by a few hundred thousand euros, the picture may change further in the current transfer window, as they seek immediate reinforcement to defend the championship and after a number of players leave the team. If they do not succeed – the Poles have marked Davida as a target for them, and as a player with great potential for sale in the future, and will try to get their hands on him even in the summer, if there is no choice.
The player was even told that at the end of the season the club would not stand in his way, but now has the most important survival mission of all, after the official offer was submitted by Dahan, who himself pushes towards the deal and is determined to get Davida out to Europe as soon as possible.
But even before Davida continues to prove his great talent, it’s interesting to take a look at the way he did at the Khodorov complex until he became a regular car player in the senior team, at just 19, with the bottom line – among all the members of the prestigious “Babies” project Launched with loud cheers, Davida is the only one who has survived at Hapoel, at least at the current point in time, and he justifies the credit he gets from Klinger.
Davida, who got a few chances in the top playoffs last season, showed sparks though, but did not shine, before making a big leap last summer, then “opening up to him.” Klinger, who chose to change direction and bring reinforcement of veteran and experienced players across the club’s youth, gambled on Davida from the start of the season, believed in him more than anyone and gave him the reins in the starting lineup. 15 appearances the young extreme recorder, scored twice and cooked twice, but always demonstrated his erupting talent, high speed and impressive technique.
More precisely, Davida impressed mainly as a right winger with a strong left foot, and often cuts to the center and endangers the goal. His physical and athletic abilities also stood out and impressed the Poles, as did the explosive power and pace changes that a professional who knows him well called them “crazy.”
“He’s such a player who changes pace in the game and can do it right away again. He has made great progress and what impresses him is that he is really the type of player who is always looking for comfort and not obsessed with their numbers, “added the same source. “The change of coaches at Hapoel in recent years has stopped him a bit because he was a candidate to jump into the senior and every time a change of path, the Corona did not really help, but if he continues like this and gives him the keys he will go very far with the physical data and strengths. . Certainly not at this age. ”
In fact, Davida was marked as a great talent in the red department, and in Israel in general – a few years ago. Davida grew up in MS Ashdod, moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv and crossed the road to Hapoel as a teenager, for free, just before offers of hundreds of thousands of shekels surfaced from all sides. Since then, he came to Wolfson every day by train to fulfill his dream and break into the Premier League. Happened.
In the middle, the Yellows tried to return him to Kiryat Shalom several times (in adolescence and also in the middle between the youth and the adults), but the young man had already connected with the Red Club, contractually and emotionally, and all offers for him were rejected. Avi Luzon once said of him in a closed conversation that he is one of the best players in his youth, and that he would like to see him develop and be sold from Maccabi Petah Tikva to Europe, but was unable to get him. Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Beer Sheva also at the time.
He is considered part of the “golden generation of Hapoel Tel Aviv”, which two years ago completed a third consecutive victory in the state cup, from boys B to youth. He himself has won seven trophies in a row so far in person. He also experiences success in the Israeli national team together with Liel Abda, Arad Bar, his friend Hapoel Tel Aviv and the current Maccabi Petah Tikva midfielder, Amit Meir, Omer Niron and Ido Shachar (among others), and appeared with them at the 2018 European Youth Championship in England.
“Hapoel has been putting all its eggs on him for several years,” said people around the club. “Always invest in it and mark it as a diamond of the department. The name Davida has always come up in these conversations about the youth department and who is a candidate to jump to graduate. On the one hand he was marked to go up to the senior before everyone else, was pushed into a corner last season and did not get credit like the rest of the youngsters, did not really stand out, but this year everything exploded. “While everyone is already in a different movie, he stuck a stake in the Premier League, was called up to the young team and is returned by the Polish champion.”
“He matured for us at the moment of the season,” Hapoel Tel Aviv boasted this week. “He looks more serious than the first training session, both in training and off the field – Klinger recognized this and threw him into the water, without a special preparatory conversation. Since then, he talks to him quite a bit and instructs “But in practice he simply entered the team naturally and proved that he should not be taken out. There is a revolution, and Davida remains even though the experience is preferred over the young people here today, in contrast to the previous trend.”
“There is no reason for us to release him now, he is too important to give it up. “Although we do not negotiate until the end of the season for the reason that we believe it is worth much more, but it is specifically about him, and not at all, because other players will still leave Wolfson. We want to keep Osher more.”
“When Osher gets the ball on the line, you know something will happen here. He will not go back, will always surprise you, cut, advance, shoot, pass a player, something good will happen on offense. Now he is starting to provide numbers slowly, so why should we stop his progress in the team first? ”Said another source at the club.
Davida, for his part, was disappointed with Hapoel Tel Aviv’s decision, but also understood it and then asked his agent to deal with the issue of Legia himself, and allow him to focus only on the team. After the short saga, which may develop again, he will try to maintain the momentum of the Reds, and his Personally, to continue their survival journey.If he continues like this, in the summer in Wolfson they will no longer be able to keep him, and who knows what his price will be then?
