Former Maccabi Tel Aviv football chairman Danny Laufer has passed away

Danny Laufer, who served as chairman of Maccabi Tel Aviv in football, passed away today (Friday) after battling a serious illness. Laufer headed the yellow club between 1987 and 1992 and quite a few football stars passed under his hand, when he was the one who brought Uri Melmillian and Avi Cohen from Jerusalem to Maccabi Tel Aviv at the time. Years later, Laufer headed the Ramat Hasharon group.

Danny Laufer and Maccabi Tel Aviv lifted the championship title in the 1991/1992 season, after a very difficult period for the club and after 13 seasons in which the team did not win the national championship. Among the players who played for Maccabi Tel Aviv at that time were, among others, Avi Nemani, Eli Drix, Shura Obarov, Amir Shelach, Itzik Zohar and Nir Klinger, in addition to Melmillian and Avi Cohen.

Danny Laufer (Hagai Nizri)

Maccabi Tel Aviv reported: The Maccabi Tel Aviv football club bows its head with the news of the death of the former chairman of the club, the late Danny Laufer. Laufer was the club’s chairman from 1987-1992 and was the architect of the team building that won the championship in the 1991/92 season for the first time in 13 years. The club shares the family’s grief in the hope that you will know no more grief. Of blessed memory”.

My father is a member He said in response to Laufer’s death: “When I graduated he was the chairman of Maccabi Tel Aviv, I remember his support and push. He always knew how to say the right word. “He will be remembered as someone who in his year as the man who headed the system together with Avraham Grant, Maccabi Tel Aviv won the championship after 13 years in which the club did not win. I share the grief of his family.”

Itzik Zohar He added: “I am very sad, he was such a happy man all the time. He was the chairman who brought me from Maccabi Jaffa to Maccabi Tel Aviv, I owe him a large part of my career. He saw the boy from Jaffa and paid $ 95,000 at the time, was an astronomical sum for an anonymous boy. He always told me ‘here I am your father’. Before every game and practice he would tell me that, words that are engraved in you. In the first two years there were no successes, until the championship with Abraham. He was so happy, happy and proud. After every win we would go eat and he would do us a standup. He was a dear, kind-hearted, funny and happy man. He will be missed by his family, the Maccabi Tel Aviv family and Israeli football.