Daniel Musindi, the liaison between the Israeli national team and the German Erlangen, signed tonight (Monday) with Saran Lorient, who is competing for promotion to the senior league in France. Musindi will join the French team next season. In this way, a large part of the Legionnaires will join the leagues in France next season, with Yoav Lambroso playing in Limoges, Adir Cohen joining the Tremblay, Dan Tepper may also sign in the senior league, Lior Gorman will continue in Sharbur in the sub-league and Chen Liebgott signed in the second league.
In a sharp transition to our league, where two rematch games from the 12th round were held. Hapoel Ashdod defeated MK Beer Sheva in the Negev capital at 23:30. Shahar Levin made his debut in Ashdod and scored 4 goals. Ram Turknitz was the leading conqueror in Ashdod with 9 conquests, and Guy Cordoba and Gabor Langhans added 5 and 4 respectively. Doral Ben Saadon was the leading scorer in Be’er Sheva with 10 goals. Ashdod will complete its games in the first round, and will be able to finish in third place where it is now, when it meets Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday.
However, Maccabi Dimona gained its third victory this season, after beating Maccabi Tel Aviv tonight at 22:25. The intriguing bottom meeting opened in a balanced way (8: 8 – 21 minutes), where Dimona opened a 4-goal advantage until a much-needed break. Good ability of Marko Fendic and Yotam Tal. In the ranks of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Zanga Gurevitch made a new debut, in his third term in Israel.
In the middle of the second half, Dimona ran away to 11:21. Tal Elyokhin who entered the game changed the momentum, and Ofir Simon and I Obina reduced the deficit to 4 goals (24:20) – less than 3 minutes to go. Simon added another goal a minute and a half to go, stressing Dimona who lost a ball. Tomer Sagron provided a stop, and Dimona achieved a significant victory that raises its balance to 6 points. Both teams also swapped places at the bottom – with Dimona rising to 11th place, and Maccabi Tel Aviv (5 points) falling to 12th.
This will leave one more game to be played on Friday between Maccabi Rishon LeZion and Nes Ziona, and will complete the 12th round. On Thursday, two more rematch games will be held between Hapoel Ashdod and Maccabi Tel Aviv in the 13th round, and between Maccabi Dimona and MK Holon from the 9th round. The last game in the first round, between AC Nes Ziona and Hapoel Kiryat Ono (Round 13) will be held next Monday.
Last night, in the Athens women’s league: the leader Maccabi Rishon LeZion defeated MK Yuvalim Holon 25:41, and Hapoel Rishon LeZion defeated the Herzliya girls 33:36. The initial derby match will be played on Thursday. It should also be noted that on Tuesday the general meeting of the handball association is expected to elect Doron Gelfand (formerly a leading player in the Israeli national team and Arazim Raj) as chairman of the handball association, as well as members of the new management.