Although Maccabi Tel Aviv is known as a producer of players for the Premier League, for a long time there has not been enthusiasm around a young player at the club as in the case of Oscar Gluch. He developed under the eyes of the senior coach, Patrick van Leven, who greatly appreciates his abilities and at the age of 16 and a half has already signed a professional contract, after refusing to court and a high financial offer from Maccabi Haifa. “Technically, he is considered a prodigy,” said the youth coach of Hapoel Tel Aviv, Uri Ozen And another coach of the boys’ league A added: “He does things with the ball that make you grab your head and say wow.” Meet the boy who practiced karate until the age of 14 and is marked as the next thing in yellow.
“Our football needs smart players like it”
The talented midfielder has been playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv for almost 12 years and is very connected to the club. It started at the age of 5, when Dad charming, A former player in the Ukrainian and Moldovan leagues enrolled him in the Yellows football school. For 6 years he would come with his son to Kiryat Shalom and watch all the training. “I know him from the boys, from the days I was there five years ago,” said the Yellows’ ex and youth coach of Hapoel Tel Aviv, Uri Ozen. “His name is familiar and has always been talked about at Maccabi Tel Aviv. It has not yet developed to the end. “
“You have to keep in mind that at 16 there are many other variables that affect a player,” continued Ozen on Gluch, who rises to a height of 1.70. “I hope that as soon as possible he will integrate and progress. This is a talent. Our football needs smart players like him.
Gluch’s father is very dominant in his career. He helped him with personal training, but not only in football, but also in karate. “From the age of one year Oscar would come with me to karate and start training. He participated in competitions until the age of 14 and combined it with football. I practiced in this field in Russia for 20 years. He is very physically strong thanks to it. He also competed in national champions and was very good.” In addition to the physical dimension, learning martial arts over the years has developed in Oscar his motor skills and given him an advantage on the grass.
The senior players admire the context, which refused half a million from Haifa
The close connection with the yellow club made his father give up high financial offers from Maccabi Haifa, which was willing to pay him half a million shekels at the age of 13. Maccabi Petah Tikva also stared at the young talent and courted him. The Greens tried to persuade Oscar to leave Kiryat Shalom in their favor The economic did not interest the father.
“I love Maccabi Tel Aviv, the method, the conduct and the way of working. A good player in a club like this – he has nothing to look for outside, where will he go ?!”, Maxim said, “I do not want to run for money, he is another child. Oscar “He will grow and be a good player and make a profit. I do not worry.” The father saw his son’s future at Maccabi Tel Aviv, and together with Oscar, who really wanted to stay where he grew up – the decision was made and recently through his agent Shachar Greenberg, he signed the professional contract.
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For most of his time at the club he played with a year greater than him and is considered a player with tremendous technique, and a good finish. This season he has scored nine goals in nine games, and a total of 51 goals in the last three years. He is also included in the Israeli national team and has been taking part in the elite project at Maccabi Tel Aviv for several years.
Beyond abilities, this is a person who takes football as a profession. From the age of 11 to 15, he would travel alone by bus from Rehovot to training in Tel Aviv until he moved to the Yellows’ boarding school in Mikve Israel. In the last three months, since Van Leven and Oscar coach for the past five years, Uri David, have joined the senior team from the academy, the talented midfielder has been training alongside the Yellows in parallel with the youth department training. One of the Dutchman’s assistants, David, is considered the man who nurtured Gluch at the club and the champion players also admire Oscar’s moves in training. Now he has to prove that he also belongs to six