In light of the difficult season that Betar Jerusalem is going through, which did not even make it to the top playoffs, the team from the capital held a press conference today (Monday) with owner Moshe Hogg and also with chairman Eli Ohana, who addressed the club’s situation – difficulties, mistakes and future, including comparison to Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Beer Sheva. The journey was broadcast live on the website and on the ONE channel.
Ohana He said: “I hear the sheikh all the time”, constantly looking to blame, who is to blame. I do not want to use this terminology, because to blame someone, if I come to blame, I will blame someone who does something intentionally, intentionally, to harm. Mistakes were made, Moshiko clearly says of himself, ‘I made mistakes, we will correct’. There are no accusations, when we come and do things only in retrospect we know if it is a mistake or not, when we decide something we hope it will work properly, that there will be good results on the field. “
“In the end this year is a complete failure, there are a lot of meetings between us, we talk a lot, Moshiko at the end makes the decisions, he is very involved, but there was never any intervention, coercion on one player or another, I never heard Moshiko Says the coaches ‘it will play, he will not’, there is no such thing in Betar, the coaches in Betar have complete autonomy to decide who will play, in what method, what exchanges will be, never in the time of Moshe Hogg was there such a thing. In the past it was, sometimes it was less successful, sometimes it’s not our way. “
“We sit a lot, talk a lot, we are never angry, we can express our dissatisfaction, but once there is a decision we are all behind the decision. It’s not owners, management, players individually, it’s true that the owner absorbs the fire, but the decision is with everyone behind it. This is how it should be in any system. The system is built in such a way that there is a landlord, I am the chairman, below me a CEO, but you have to see how it works – no one says – I decide and that’s it. There are meetings, conduct, at the end of the day decisions are made. Unfortunately this season we have failed miserably at the professional level and I hope next season it will look better. But even in the past, Betar went through difficult seasons, a season of declines, of competing for relegation, of competing for degrees, winning degrees and it will continue in the future. “
There are good, excellent Israeli coaches, take BS who 3 years ago, there were no foreign coaches there and BS won 3 consecutive championships, without a professional manager. They found the formula. We need to remember how Alona Barkat started, and remember how Mitch started, they too had difficult years without achievements until they found the platform. As for a foreign coach, is that the direction for next year, to say that for sure it will happen? The future will see. We will try to find the right team. “