The Winner Handball League will not be played during the closure, but the clubs are already preparing for the completion of the first round and the continuation of the struggles in the upper and lower house. Urbani Rehovot has appointed Gil Segal as its replacement, replacing Shahar Haber, who has resigned. Segal, who previously coached Ness Ziona, Herzliya and Maccabi Petah Tikva, the Israeli women’s team and in recent years served as a professional manager in the youth departments of Maccabi Rishon LeZion and Holon, will try to get the team out of a bad season, which already includes 10 losses and no points. In the foreign state, and return the center to Matan Goltz.
And that’s not the only change on the lines in the league. Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin has appointed Serbian Nella Matic as its coach, who has returned to the club for a third term. Matic, who replaces Nir Halima, is one of the quality and experienced coaches who coached Israeli handball. He won the national championship with Maccabi Tel Aviv, and previously coached the Libyan (men’s) and South African (women’s) teams, worked for the young teams in Serbia and the local league. Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin chairman Pini Leibowitz said of the appointment: “We are happy with Matic’s return to the club, and hope that with the return of the league he will put us on the path to success.”
Israel’s reserve team, which is preparing for the World Under-21 Championship qualifiers to be held in Israel in March, completed a series of training matches, when it defeated the national team 29:30, last night MK Holon 31:42 and tonight Hapoel Ashdod 36:37. The handball association decided that the legionnaires Yoav Lambroso (French Limousin), Daniel Musindi (German Erlangen) and Jonathan Dayan (German Rimfar) would play in the reserve uniform, to help her qualify for the world tournament. The three belong to the national team, where they are waiting for a final answer from the European Union on whether they will change the match dates set for Lithuania and Iceland in March, and some of them overlap with the reserve tournament.
Women: Arazim Raj defeated Hapoel Rishon Lezion 26:27
Tonight, in the 7th round of the Women’s Premier League, the top meeting between Maccabi Arazim Raj and Hapoel Rishon LeZion provided great drama – leading Marj to inflict the first loss of the season on Hapoel Rishon Lezion – 26:27, from a winning goal by Shir and Karat – 8 Seconds to go (and Carat scored 13 goals). A few moments before, Oshri Cohen, ex-Raj, missed Pendel. Arazim Raj rises to a balance of 1: 6 loss-wins, with Hapoel Rishon LeZion missing two games (it is in the 1: 4 balance). Maccabi Rishon Lezion the champion Defeated MK Petah Tikva 22:49. The meeting between Ness Ziona and Holon was postponed due to a case of a verified actress to Corona in Holon.