Betar Jerusalem in trouble, the 3: 2 loss to Bnei Sakhnin last night (Thursday) complicates the team of Slobodan Drapic and Shai Barda in the struggles for the top playoff, but the really hot decision is among the club’s management. At the end of the game, the owner, Moshe Celebrates, was as nervous as he had ever been since acquiring the team two and a half years ago.
The box in Teddy, where they were celebrating, chairman Eli Ohana, CEO Moni Brosh and the team’s accountant Haim Navon, was stormy from the seventh minute, in which Biram Kiel scored Sakhnin’s first goal. Throughout the game you could hear the dissatisfaction of the owner, who was nervous, he did not like what he saw on the lawn and radiated nerves in light of what happened in the first half.
Celebrating anger, getting annoyed at simple football moves that do not work out for his players and at the end he lost his patience and shouted: “All the money I invest goes to the trash”, Ohana went to the party and tried to calm him down but the owner kept shouting: “What is this thing.” Long minutes left celebrating in the box Teddy as he grabs his head in despair and slams a blow on the window glass.
Afterwards, the owner along with members of the management went down to the locker room, on the way celebrating kicking an object that was on the floor and hitting the container of the group’s equipment that was standing next to the locker room. At that time Drapich was in his room and Shay Barda, who had finished being interviewed for television, was walking helplessly outside the dressing room.
A few seconds later everyone entered the locker room, where some of the players were still getting ready to leave Teddy, some were still in the showers. Celebrating a conversation with the coaches, which was defined as a difficult conversation, some of the allegations were against the players and some of the allegations against the coaches, about their conduct in choosing the players who came up to play.
“What I saw here is not football, it is not perceived, how do players come to a game like this? It is a game for an entire season, those who are not qualified for me not to get dressed, those who play should give everything they have, there is no such thing as fatigue,” Sharply to Drapich and Barda: “Until Sakhnin’s goal we did not touch the ball, we came to the most important game so bad, why should it be like this?”.
At the end of the conversation, Celebrate left Teddy, Ohana and Moni Brosh stayed at the stadium and the chairman also visited the coaches and told them: “For the first ten minutes we did not touch the ball, what is this part that players say they can not play So important. ‘
Today a difficult team meeting is expected for the players in which they will understand that if they do not stand the task of bringing the team to the top playoffs, most of them will not play in Betar next season. “Even those who have a contract for next season are in danger,” said a club. The slap the group received will not pass quietly. Serious allegations were made against Nico Olsk who did not save a single ball in the first half. “None of the players came to the game, the whole game they come complaining to each other instead of playing football,” said a club source. One of the players shouted in the locker room: “We have become a team that takes teams out of crisis, also Hapoel Tel Aviv, now Sakhnin, we have two weeks to start playing football here.”
If Betar does not reach the top playoffs, it will be a catastrophe in terms of celebrating. Yesterday, the pair of coaches lost quite a bit of their shares to the owners, but at the same time there are also those who think that dropping the case on Drapich and Barda is unfair: “It’s injuries, the eruption of the corona in the team, the density of games, players who should be used after not playing for a few months, have they already forgotten the compliments they received after the games against Maccabi Petah Tikva and Beer Sheva?”
Moshe Celebrates asked last night not to talk to him, he was in a storm of emotions, nervous, disappointed and desperate. This morning hope to hear from the owner what to do next. According to sources at the club, the chance that he will celebrate will fire Drapich and Barda before the game against Maccabi Tel Aviv on Monday does not exist.