In a tense and difficult atmosphere, when the team faces the struggles in the lower playoffs – Idan Yossi Mizrahi began in Betar Jerusalem. The veteran coach today (Wednesday) opened his third term on the lines at the club where he grew up as a player, with the goal – again – to be the one to save the club (maybe) From entanglement and struggles until the end of the season. Along with the debut training, Mizrahi – and another Betar icon, Eli Ohana, who today serves as chairman – had an opening conversation with the players, which was (properly for the last period) not easy.
“I did something I did not do and I do not want to do,” Ohana told the players, referring to a conversation in which he scolded them at the end of the 2-0 loss in Ashdod, “You will learn to accept criticism, even if it is very sharp. Every word of criticism about you and us, we earned honestly. “And one has to do the mental arithmetic for oneself. It starts with one language towards the other, and it continues with early departure from the stadium.”
“All I hear and read in the media, anonymously, is that they are offended – why they talk about you and why they say this and that. Stop talking about this in the media, and stop being offended. Criticism is not done to punish, but to fix things. To change. To improve. All the senior coaches in football: We lost in Europe, so the coach went; we did not reach the playoffs, the coaches go. Where are you? All the coaches are not good? All the coaches do not understand? “
“Every word of criticism that you and we have earned honestly. The disappointment is huge, but now you stop talking anonymously in the media, and stop being offended. Criticism is not done to punish, it comes to fix things. To change things, to improve things,” Ohana added. “There were coaches here who gave their soul, in investment, thoroughly, in the video calls, individual, group. There are those who wanted to learn and listen and there are those here who put a stripe because they know everything and understand everything.”
“We have another league,” Ohana warned the players. “Whoever for one second thinks it’s going to be a trip, that it’s over and let’s pass the games, let’s say from now on – I’m not angry – but he will not be here. When we get to the bottom playoffs, we can get tangled up in a second, and if we continue this approach, we get back to our bottom “The pride. Give it back to us, to the management, to the fans, to the immediate environment – for everything.”
“I did not want this job,” Yossi Mizrahi began his remarks to the actors. “I’ve done enough in my life. But we’re in this club, we’re in crisis and I enlisted for this mission but internalize: as soon as I take on a mission, I become totally total. Whoever straightens, will be with me, and whoever does not – will fly Kibinimt. What I say, and the story is over. “
“If someone kicks or throws something after a substitution, he will not be here. I can absorb mistakes or misses from two meters; we all made mistakes. But to lose a ball, and look at how the friends are fighting for it, it does not exist. You will come every game and give it your all. There are players here who do not understand what it is like to play in Betar Jerusalem.