Maor Rahmani
Eitan Shmuelevich in consultation with the VAR (Hagai Michaeli)
Maccabi Netanya has not yet calmed down from the events that took place during the game against Maccabi Petah Tikva, which ended 1-1 last night (Wednesday), in which the referee, Eitan Shmuelevich, approved Liel’s equalizer for the Malabes, in a controversial manner. The morning after the game, the club from Sharon attacked the conduct of Petah Tikva chairman Avi Luzon on his official Facebook page, claiming that he influences the decisions of the refereeing team.
When the former chairman of the association, a limited member of the administration / secretariat of the principal, descends to the locker room area before, during and after the game (all during the Corona period, which created regulations with a blanket ban on this type of action), he makes regular contact with the refereeing team. His opinion (which is also in a routine period of unacceptable and unsportsmanlike behavior) and the events described go through game after game, with no reaction, neither from the refereeing team nor from the observer nor from the association prosecutor, no wonder we then witness situations where the referee changes strangely His decision, even though the assistant referee had the best angle on the court (and he is also the one who raised the flag), ”the yellow club wrote.
They added: “It is clear that the referee was close to the incident and differed (and in the attached video you can see at least 2 reasons for canceling the gate). In the ‘Big Brother’ country in which we live, it will be of great interest to the Israeli football fans and in general to one day receive the audio system recordings of the refereeing team. We will all be happy to hear what was said there in the rooms, in the conversation during the half of the game among themselves, in the conversation with the team owners before the game, at the half and at the end, in the VAR audio system and more. “
In conclusion, we noted in Netanya: “When the strange events recur week after week after week, we are left to ask ourselves – what good will sages do in their regulation? “When neither the judges nor the professional committees, nor the courts, nor the leaders, do the little we all ask, to act in accordance with the language of the law and regulations equally towards all, because we were all born in B’Tselem.”
Avi Luzon He told ONE in response: “I can send Maccabi Netanya a pile of tissue. The person who approved the gate was not the referees on the field, but the person who was sitting in the VAR car in Neve Ilan. “
