Downloaded profile and signed permanently / Amir Peleg

Ben-Shimon and Ben-Zaken in the Mirror of History

“You do not have to reach the end of the mountain to enjoy, you have to enjoy the road, the climb itself … My guys write their own history … It is a very complex period in our lives and the energy is less external, it is a little more internal, within us. .. That we knew how to win like this, shows how big the players’ hearts are and how much blood is flowing in them “…. True, it looks like a selection of quotes from Confucius, Herod, Maimonides and Kobi Refuah – but no. They all belong to Ran Ben-Shimon.

He delivered the fiery speech after a convincing 0: 3 by MS Ashdod over the faltering Hapoel Beer-Sheva, which is interesting, because a few days earlier his team of historians was defeated by the same result in Netanya, and Rabash did not claim that the hearts of his players were small and anemic.

After the two cardiological incidents, something fell into Jackie Ben-Zaken’s spare parts warehouse: Sagiv Yehezkel, the team’s scorer, was sold and left immediately. “Everything goes through me. It was a slightly more complex situation than people think. There were not many choices. It’s part of our philosophy” … explained Ran the philosopher who accepted the matter humbly, declaring: “We do not change our goals, at the moment the only stated goal is To enter the top playoffs “… pretentious to Allah, even though this amazing history has been written by MS Ashdod several times before.

And the situation is much more embarrassing than he thinks. The coach who once wrote a chapter in the history of local football – in Kiryat Shmona – who led the Cyprus team in the Euro qualifiers and was mentioned as a candidate for the Israeli team, is suddenly ready to give up his most effective weapon. He’s just dreaming of a sixth place, and even signing with the trading empire by 2024 (“without an exit clause”).

In early 2020, when he was still hoping to continue coaching on the neighboring island, Ben-Shimon said that he did not miss Israel and explained that the Cypriots, unlike us, play net football. Even when asked about team involvement in coaches’ professional decisions, he provided a universal answer: “All over the world, a person who invests in business wants to set policy. In sports it should be different, but most team owners refuse to accept that fact.”

But then the Cypriots gave up his services, the net pro took down a profile, returned to Ben-Zaken’s arms and on the exact same issue replied: “Private owners put a lot of money and they need to be involved. I encourage Jackie to be involved. It builds the system better “… indeed an ideological upheaval, perhaps related to the fact that his current boss is not registered as an owner at all, controls the municipal budget along with his brother, and crowns his son as captain. A mutation that has no brother and evil in the world.

“I love Jackie and his brother Meir, they give me the peace of mind to work at a wonderful club,” Ben-Shimon flattered, apparently inspired by John F. Kennedy, adding: “The club gives so much, and that’s the least we can give back to him” … Exciting things, certainly when it comes to a club without identity and fans, which hosts the poorest facility in the league, which involved players who were run over to death and fled, and is run by a man who is not allowed to play in the team – due to his criminal conviction.

Berkowitz pushed the boy to Petah Tikva

So what was the biggest attrition on the last day of the transfer window? A question that became irrelevant after Hapoel Petah Tikva managed to get its hands on Lior Berkovich.

Yes, this is the same talent that coaches did not recognize his immense talent even when he was ten years old. In that case, in the children’s team of Maccabi Herzliya, his father was forced to punch in front of the coach and add curses and threats of a toy offender, but the boy’s coaches did not learn a lesson.

Since the lost son has moved between several clubs, he has not found a place in the children of Maccabi Haifa and in the graduates of Hapoel Haifa, but Dad has not given up. Long before the education system was shut down because of the corona, he continued to take him to work – first at his club in Nesher, and recently at Hapoel Rishon LeZion. When that did not go well either, Berkowitz took advantage of his connections at Hapoel Raanana, where the offspring finally won a few minutes. The well-known Eyal Lachman – and went down with him in the league. He is not a partner in Leumit, and last month he was also informed in Raanana that he is not in the plans. Luckily, his childish father has a lot of plans, as well as a new team.

“Bad people,” Eyal Berkowitz called those who did him a favor in Raanana, because that’s how he educated the boy. Last week, after becoming the supreme professional authority at Hapoel Petah Tikva, he also showed everyone what “good people” are – and connected the offspring to the new toy. The man who slaps politicians who are hypocritical and insidious has turned another club into a daycare center.

At his presentation ceremony, when asked if he would bring reinforcements, Father Berkowitz replied: “I would rather give a child a youth than to just bring someone to say I brought.” So here, he brought not just anyone, but an actor from home. Just what’s weird? In the two games the team held after the glittering signing, the young Berkowitz was not included in the squad, because he did not conduct regular training and was not fit to play. So what? Good people help the weak, and even if the team has fallen below the red line, Hapoel Petah Tikva fans should internalize: Berkowitz’s nursing home has no red lines.

Tomer Levy extinguishes fire from the bounce

As expected, the association’s disciplinary factory yesterday accepted the plea bargains of the two thugs in the derby, and handed down light sentences to the neighborhood’s heroes. Dayan Israel Shimoni reached his peak when he acceded to Hapoel Haifa’s request to split the dismissals of its players because of the corona. It’s just a pity that for exactly the same reason no child will probably be present at the hearing who will shout: Is there a doctor in the courtroom?

The senior quarrelsome man, Maccabi Haifa general manager Assaf Ben-Dov, dismissed the referee for three games, added a fine, and explained: “There is not excessive severity not only in the general manager’s participation in the brawl, nor in his being a functionary who is expected to act as “An adult who is responsible for events of the type in question, but also for not being in the area of ​​the lawn, where he is not allowed to be in the days of Corona.” Spicy words, with lots of garlic.

But the most upset following the sentencing is the “journalist” Tomer Levy, whose name was mentioned a few years ago as a candidate for the position of spokesman for Maccabi Haifa. Today his son, Maor, plays for the club’s senior team, and the happy father jumped at the chance to provide her with spokesperson services.

“The story is inflated beyond all proportion, an entire symposium should not be made of it,” Abba Levy thundered his voice from the heights of the lack of journalistic ethics, in a discussion that dealt with punishments. In this one can certainly understand him. Still, the channel he works on is careful not to go out of proportion, and even ask Danny Abdia. But a symposium should, it’s just important to get rid of the father of an actor who supposedly demands to maintain proportions, but actually maintains connections.

Grand Corona in Judo

The air train of hundreds of Jews and staff, Moshe Ponti’s sticky assault on the Iranian Said Moulay without a mask at Ben Gurion Airport, the mass and expensive hospitality at the Hilton Hotel when thousands of children can not go to the judo club, the pompous greeting of Publicity and Sports Minister Hili Trooper, signs The ridiculous streets in Tel Aviv for an event without an audience. Undoubtedly, the Judo Association and the various hitchhikers made an iPhone with two fingers in their eyes for the unemployed public in Israel and for the thousands of Israelis who are stuck abroad. And all for a placebo tournament.

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