Dismissal Moshe Sinai Hapoel Tel Aviv at the beginning of December 2020 caught everyone by surprise, and today (Sunday), who was the club’s professional manager, spoke about it in a special interview with the “Open Ground” program in honor of his 60th birthday.
“I do not know what happened there, it can only be attributed to misunderstanding or incorrect information within the system,” he said. “That’s why it got into this situation. I’m pretty much not mad at anyone, what was important to me was to help a club that gave me so much, that I grew up in. The season before that, when Nir (Klinger) and I arrived, the team was in a very, very difficult situation. “Professionally, socially and financially. I together with Nir and of course the owners who wanted to help us, we managed to stabilize the team and put it back in a good place. We reached the semifinals and top playoffs and we raised a number of young people and it was a good season.”
“It was very simple this season with the Corona and everything that happened and probably people were under pressure and did not know how to function. No proper work environment was created, the budget was very difficult. True when I left suddenly there was money, I do not know where it came from, but it’s their business “I did the job well, it’s their right and it’s okay, the right of one person.”
When asked if it is disappointing to say goodbye in such a way, he said: “Unfortunately the farewells from Hapoel Tel Aviv, throughout the history of the club, are such painful separations. But I’m already a big kid and know how to absorb it and know this system, which in some situations is dysfunctional and does things right. It will not change my love for the club, the team and the fans. I want to wish them to stay in the league because the club is very important to the league. “Hapoel Tel Aviv will always be in my heart, I am not angry with anyone. It was not done evil, it was done to the best of my understanding from a lack of understanding, impulsivity and a piece of ego. Whose? Of one of the owners. Not of Sharon Nisnov, of his brother.”
He then added: “I feel I was given a chance, it was a terrible injustice to me for many years and I did not have a chance to fix it, I grew up in this club. I came to football from financial hardship and he built me financially and personally and gave me many things, everything related to the club Called Hapoel Tel Aviv. When I got back there I felt like I was fixing something, that I was going home. I was very happy, I hardly interfered in anything about what was happening in the booklet, and then I said that I must thank Boaz Sharon and Meir Resident because they did above and beyond. Even after I left, the messages from them warmed my heart, but apparently there are 4 partners, so not everyone is always of the same opinion. “
Sinai was asked if the matter was mostly personal with Itzik Nisnov, and that ended the story for him: “Exactly. Just do not want to dig into it and get into it and try to beautify the matter. I was hurt and I think she was very very wrong. But like I said, I’m a big boy “And he knows how to absorb it, whoever did it has to live with it forever. I did mine and in the cleanest way. What is important to me is that we closed a circle from what was and the enormous injustice I had unjustly in my previous term.”
“I take the matter upon myself in the matter of information. This whole was 20% not good but 80% yes. I do not blame anyone, I also blame myself in the information section, I have no abilities. I am not angry and everything is fine.”
Sinai also talked about his birthday: “Honestly, I’m from the age of 40 I decided not to count the days and not the years, because if you get into it you get into a confusion of years, what was and what will be. I try to live the day and know how to do things “In a good way, every day is a new day. It’s true that age 60 is a piece of age, but I feel fine and a young spirit does not deal with it too much.”
“I want to thank from the bottom of my heart everyone who helped and worked and made a 60-page booklet with articles. That when I read it I do not believe it’s me. It chills me and warms my heart to know what I did, what people think of me. Apparently people really like football, the thing “This simple thing does so much good to people and it’s a pity that today it’s a bit going to less good places because football can do a lot of good to people, and the example is what happened to me.”
He later referred to big moments in his career: “The goal that really opened the way for me to be one of the leading players in the country was in the box in Netanya. They led 1: 2, Maccabi Netanya the great, all the great players, and I scored the goal that equaled 2: 2, and from the game “My path was paved to the top, I can not forget it. There were more goals and moments that I enjoyed and made the fans rest.”
On the subject it was said that he and Uri Melmillian could not play together, he added: “I think at that time … first of all we are different in the style of play, he is more gentle and technical and has great kicks. My style is a bit different, I was more fighting and aggressive, cooking, and “I know how to score, a different style in the essence of the game itself. I think I was among the first to make the connection not only technical but also ball saves.”
“It was also a lot of politics, they always tried that we could not play together. All kinds of inventions in order to maybe give up one of us. Unfortunately we did not really get too much to play together in the team, but I think today in modern football and with today’s insights, I think “Both he and I could play and that could only be a problem for the opponent.”
Sinai was asked who kicks free kicks better: “Listen I admired him, he was a few years older than me and when I was a teenager he was in the seniors. “To do like him and to my joy I was able to do pretty good things. I think Uri is one of the big kickers we had.”