Quietly and quietly, thanks to hard work and perseverance, he became Eli Desa One of the most successful legionnaires Israel has to offer. The defender of Vitesse Arnhem has taken a permanent place this season in the team that is ranked second in the Dutch league, only 3 points from Ajax. Desa (28), who ended his contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv in the summer of 2019, has already provided 4 cooks this week and is impressive from week to week in the right wing. In an interview he gave to “Open Ground” together with Eran Zehavi, Dassah shared his personal career, in the season of Maccabi Tel Aviv, the affair of the minors and his opinion of Willy Rotensteiner.
Eli, could you have had to go abroad earlier? Would you have developed into a much better player? “In retrospect, it is easy to say, in the end there is a situation. I played for Betar and Maccabi and the exit is not always possible. At the age of 26 I came as a free agent, because I did not have a passport it makes things difficult for me. I do not want to look back, I might have been out and failed and my career would have looked different. I think it’s not too late to make a jump. “
Vitsa likes to sell players after a year or two – it would not be a wild guess to say that this summer we may see you at a bigger club.
“There is a strategy of the whole league here, to be a development league. All groups work this way. Even if you take Ajax internationally, you will see that it sells to the big teams and does not make the leap to really be at their level. In the Netherlands, the discourse is not received badly when I want to move forward because that is really every player’s ambition – to be sold on to better leagues and I hope that happens. the dream? The Spanish league”.
“Not everything goes the way you want, sometimes even when you are young you do not have this guidance or understanding that you need and can go to Europe. I am happy and good where I am, it has upgraded me professionally. My financial choice on the subject is for a longer term vision, everyone knows I chose an economic offer that is lower than what they offered me at Maccabi Tel Aviv. You can’t say I followed the money or anything like that, I hope it pays off that we continue our good season. “
“The reviews of Zehavi? I got to see the reviews of Eran in the media here, and I was interested to see if that’s really what’s going on here. I asked players on my team, to understand what it’s about, and suddenly you see the media in Israel getting out of control, it’s an interpretation. ‘Translated’ by Google Translate or an invention that sometimes you can not prove. When you play abroad, you learn that the media in Israel can not help you with anything related to abroad, it can influence your Israeli public opinion, but it is irrelevant to progress in the swamp The European or another market that is not the State of Israel. “
Something is not going wrong with Maccabi Tel Aviv this season.
“Things need to be put in proportion to the club, it’s a distance that can be closed. They have gone through a stage in Europe and should not make too much drama out of the situation. It’s a club that likes to eulogize and find problems there because it’s very neat, and at the end of the test result they do things. They may not win the championship this season, it is not such a big problem there are such seasons. The strength of the club is its conduct. “
Noble Omar goes through a lot – as a friend, how hard is it?
“Even if it’s not as a friend, nor as a colleague, but as a person: it’s not normal what he’s going through in my eyes, it’s disgusting behavior, certainly not his family. The man paid a heavy enough price, these are things that should not happen. I hope it came out strong, these are not easy things. “If he had gone through it only on himself, I believe he would have been fine, but there is a wife and children and in my opinion this is not acceptable.”
If you had the opportunity to tell Goldhaar that Dor Micha should be returned to Maccabi, would you do it?
“What a question, I think all Maccabi fans would also like to see him. He is one of the most beloved players in the history of this club, I think there is also no doubt about his abilities. After the case was closed, I think it could have been seen as a kind of compromise, the short exile and the club decision is acceptable, I am not saying no, but I look at it as a friend and as a person, maybe they did not want to do it professionally. For my part, I would return it. “
As for the team, you wanted Willy Rotensteiner and he stayed.
“True, but I do not think that in the end a body like the locating committee or the association will appoint a coach who does not provide the results, no matter what the players say. Of course the opinion of the players is significant. We see things you do not see from the inside, it is a process and it is in the small details, so when you are asked as an actor and you see it, then you will probably give all the compliments and in my eyes he deserves it. It outlines a good way, you have to give it time and it will pay off. “
