Gidi Lipkin
Eli Ohana and Moran Meiri (Itzik Blanitzky and Noam Moreno)
The meeting of the management of the Football Association did not pass without a confrontation. During the meeting, Maccabi Tel Aviv’s legal advisor, Adv. Moran Meiri, who is a member of the association’s board, expressed his criticism that Willy Rotensteiner became the coach of the senior team and will now be replaced by the Dutch technical director, Yela Jose. The remarks came in the wake of Eli Ohana’s explanations to the management and actually led to a confrontation between the two at the meeting.
Ohana As is well known, he is one of the members of the locating committee that selected and recommended the new technical director: “We invested dozens of hours, examined alternatives of Israelis and foreigners. I think the discussions were professional, matters, we took the time to try to find the most suitable candidate. “
In response to what Ohana said, he responded Meiri Because “I have no criticism of the process. I have a criticism that Israeli football and the Football Association are unable to do a long process. Eli, there will probably be another member of the Technical Director Appointments Committee in two more years. Why would a train derail? In the previous committee when Jose was a candidate, there was no argument at all that Willie was the leading candidate for the position. We extended Willie’s contract after a year to complete the process and are now stopping it. We approved NIS 6 million to complete the process. To me it had to be completed at least four years. It is not possible to replace a professional manager every two years, it is an unnecessary process. It hurts me that a new person will come until he enters the position and until he learns, you will just go one year. “
Ohana responded: “People are allowed to change their minds throughout the process. Moran you ignore Corona’s sleep. At Maccabi, too, you brought in Patrick as the youth director and became a coach. ” “On the fact that Rotensteiner was not a partner in the election of Beila Hus, Ohana said: ‘With all due respect to Willie, we should not share anything with him.’ The chairman of the association also spoke on this issue Sturdy pine Who said: “The plan written by Willie and approved. She is the plan, not the person who executes. Our viewing from Willy was more involved. “
Meiri replied: “Lazar takes half a year – a year to understand where he has come from. It was in Willi’s contract extension that you were not a partner then because you were not, “he said of Ohana:” What you said about Maccabi is demagoguery. Maccabi is not the association. Patrick finished four years with the youth. When a technical manager completes four years here you will talk to me. Maccabi’s situation is not that of the association. ” Ohana: “I will not use words like demagoguery.” Meiri: “I apologize, I did not say you are a demagogue.” Ohana: “Only a donkey does not change his mind. I accept the apology. ” Meiri: “The result is that we have reached a situation where you pay more to a coach than a technical manager. We had a terrible mishap. Now just months are lost. To me, Willie is a huge miss. ”
Ariel Sheiman Responded at this point: “With all the geniuses of the last 15 years, we have reached the 100th place in the world. Oren everything is not good. We are a hundredth place in the world. We did not get anywhere. ‘
