A difficult day passed for Hapoel Haifa, which started with the news that apart from Guy Mishpati, three other positive players for the virus (Gal Erel, Liran Serdel and Saar Padida), continued with the harsh punishments imposed by the court on the Reds and Greens in the shadow of the derby events, and ended with hard news. Zamir finished the season by tearing the crossbar. “This is one of the black periods I remember at the club,” said one of the veteran players.
In addition, the team also received good news today: the punishment of the two players of the team, Dor Malul and Alon Turgeman, was postponed – and they will start wanting it only after the expulsion period of Gal Erel (2 games), Eden Ben Best (2 games) and Nisso Capiloto (3 games). The judge, Israel Shimoni, ruled that this arrangement was accepted “in light of the exceptional circumstances,” in part because of the high corona morbidity in the group.
As for the penalties imposed on the players, the sports channel touches that the club is not complete with the plea deal and that the last word has not yet been said on the subject: “We had a hard day with bad news. We are in pain and bruised. It is a very difficult situation and we are going to be in big trouble. To digest the results, “said Yoav Katz,” we received too heavy and severe a punishment. It is not possible that a football team in which so many players are not guilty did not receive justice. But it is not over yet. There are two small details left that we still want to challenge. “
The club was angry at the trial of Nisso Capiloto, who had the most severe punishment on the team. This is despite the fact that he has no problematic past at all and the Reds claim there is no record of the allegations filed against him and the prosecutor relied only on the judge’s report which he should not rely on and can not serve as conclusive evidence when he goes through the procedures and regulations. “He tried a man unable to harm a fly.” .
Alon Turgeman’s penalty was also defined by the club members as disproportionate. “Alon just tried to separate. You can clearly see it in the cameras he is trying to help and Maccabi Haifa CEO Assaf Ben Dov fell because he lost his balance,” said the club and in the same breath wondered how Muhammad Abu Fani and the Greens’ spokesman, Dudu Bezeq, did not stand To trial.
Capiloto tried to write: “Today I received a lesson in proportionality and justice, two important things that unfortunately the rabbi did not express. They aggravated my judgment, word for word, and I was judged not to get my justice. All I have left is to accept the expulsion sentence and not agree. “With him. Another lesson for life. At the end, we are sorry to the football audience that we were not to blame for a shameful incident. From here, I call, not for violence, but for brotherhood and sportsmanship.”
Eden Ben-Best also responded: “After we calmed down, we need to look at everything from a slightly different, mature, responsible angle, probably on days when football must and should be a place of good in the great difficulty of everyone. We all got angry, in red, in green, but what does it matter “He teased, I reacted. On both sides we should set an example. Stop for a second. We all want to win, hate to lose, all of us! But we all have a bigger role to play than that!”
As for Ness Zamir’s injury, there is no one at the club, including the player himself, who believed that his injury, the memory of the game against Hapoel B’Shlosha, was so serious. The 30-year-old attacking player is considered one of Haim Sylves’ anchors during the season with no less than four goals. And two cooks and this is a hard blow for the coach who released Raz Stein and Almog Buzaglo from the team in the last transfer window.
Meanwhile, after the dismissals, the coach is expected to reach the cup game against Bnei Yehuda, in a factory defined by Yoav Katz as “Hapoel Haifa’s first goal of the season”, with a particularly short staff and without nine of the team’s key players: Liran Serdel, Gal Erel, Saar Padida and Guy Mishpati Facing Corona, Capiloto and Eden Ben-Best were sent off and the injured Case Ganem and Ness Zamir.
