Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are calling for a boycott of the crowd

After the principal’s announcement that it will allow the admission of up to 1,500 fans in the big stadiums and up to 750 in the small stadiums already in the upcoming Saturday games according to the outline approved by the health, opinions among Israeli football fans are still divided. Today (Tuesday), the Maccabi Fanatics organization of the champion fans published a particularly poignant post in light of the decision and even called on the fans of the other teams to boycott the outline.

“Like any football fan whose love was taken from him, we too received the principal’s message with mixed feelings. On the one hand, we are all dying to get back to cheering on our team that so desperately needs us in the critical moments of the season. On the other hand, it is impossible to ignore the irrationality of the decisions that are made and the disconnection of politicians and officials from the thing that is most important to us in life, football.

“The decision to put 1,500 people in an open stadium that can hold 30,000 is an unfortunate decision by disconnected people, which is not based on any serious research and most importantly it was made by people who have never been to a football game! The sole purpose of the outline is to mark V and produce a false image that has “returned” the audience to the pitches. “Everyone who has been to the stadium in their life knows that scattering 1,500 people in Bloomfield, Sami Ofer or Teddy is like treating cancer with paracetamol.”

It is also written that: “In the current outline, the organization can easily take care of itself and its people, position itself as ‘more important’ than the rest of the fans and decide that we will enter without thinking about our brothers in the stands. These are not the values ​​we grew up with at Gate 11. We are not willing to worry only about ourselves. As the leading organization in the Maccabi Tel Aviv stands, we have a responsibility on our shoulders, so we are not ready to enter the stands as an organization when only 1,500 fans are allowed in, and we will continue to fight outside the stadium until the decision makers understand that we can not be silenced by mere symbolic actions.

“It is clear to us that the morbidity situation does not allow us to return to a full routine, and we are not shouting ‘all or nothing’ here, but demand a logical approach, based on data and an understanding of the structure of football stadiums. We will not agree to the disconnected decisions of people who have not been to the stadium before. We will continue to support Maccabi in our ways. Football belongs to the fans! ”