After leading Hapoel Tel Aviv to a 0-1 victory over Hapoel Beer Sheva and continuing the improvement trend of the Reds, who until recently were in last place in the Premier League table, Nir Klinger was interviewed tonight (Monday) on Israel’s sports program on 102FM and commented on his work at the club. In the group and for the future.
Hello and good evening to you, Nir Klinger.
“Good evening friends”.
Each time you justify the title of winner given to you as a player. Where do the forces of transcendence come from?
First of all, thank you. In our situation today there is more work to justify this degree but we are on our way there. There is no other choice. “
It’s easiest to say ‘we have no players’, you stay and fight and you win.
I said at a breaking point we had in December that it would not end well if no decisions were made. Ultimately the players are the ones who play and that is the most important thing in football. Nothing is over. I had no problem getting up and going and saying that everything was fine, I was not in a quarrel with the Nisnov brothers, the verb is important to everyone. I told them from my experience, even if a senior coach comes along, without making a change in the squad it will not work. If there was no money, and there really was a budget constraint, most of these players came at a lower salary rather than what they were used to getting. “It was the work of the owner, mine and CEO Odelia Friedman, in order to bring in players in less time, it’s not that we won the lottery.”
What won your game against Hapoel B’Shlosha?
“In the end we do not come to stand in front of any group. We are tired and exhausted, we played well against Maccabi Haifa and lost. What brought the victory is the belief that there is no need to be afraid of any team. We are a good team and need to stay with our feet on the ground, that’s what won the game mentally. I know I can play offensively if I have certain player material. I do not run away from responsibility, the limitations we had in the summer had no other options. There were restrictions because of the outline that groups would fall apart if the state did not help, not all of them Mitch Goldhaar, Alona Barkat and Yaakov Shachar. Nobody did it on purpose. “
Every game is critical for you from now on.
Against Sakhnin it is a game about 6 points. All the teams that will be in the bottom playoffs will be in this fight. crowd? We are hurt by this the most, the audience is significant in a team like Hapoel. This audience is power and strength in front of groups that do not have an audience. I remember last year before the Corona, there were performances by the fans that pushed us. “
Can you explain why you end up playing nervous? It does not look good.
“I always shake hands with the opposing coach. I was not sent off for five years, in the last game I entered the field like everyone else, he took out a red from 15 meters, I entered the field to take out my players and they will not keep them away. I did not quarrel with the judge and did not say a word, he just pulled out a red. I have a responsibility towards the players and if players like Ben Bitton or Omri Altman and talk to the referee I have to get them out of there, it is my responsibility if a player is sent off. Luckily I had a camera and saw I was not talking. The coach is allowed to enter the field at the end of a game. I will send you a video and you will see coaches like Barak Bachar do it. “
Yesterday the judge was in your favor.
“Either yes or no, we will wait and see what they decide in the professional committee, I am not a judge. First of all they took points from us and also brought us, that’s how it is. “It is not by chance that Hatem ‘Abd al – Hamid’s goal was disqualified, from what I understand from the constitution, as soon as the goalkeeper is in front of the attacking player, then the brake becomes the goalkeeper.”
Would you like to stay at Hapoel Tel Aviv if you stay in the league?
“It is clear that it is. It’s an amazing club, exceptional. Should be much more economically developed and return to being in the top 3-4 of Israeli football, he can be there because there is also an excellent youth department. I would love to stay 5 years as well. I am signed until the end of the year at the moment, I do not want them to talk to me at the moment because we have to concentrate on what is being done at the moment and not contracts.
Have you been vaccinated?
“Yes, the day after Benjamin Netanyahu.”