Gidi Lipkin
Assistant coach of the Israeli national team Marco Belbul (Radad Jabara)
Marco Belbul has led Maccabi Haifa on the lines for the past two years and before that he was the coach of the young team, but despite all this resume, the assistant coach of the national team disappeared yesterday (Thursday) from the Israeli team bench at Bloomfield Stadium in the opening match of the 2022 World Cup qualifier against Denmark.
Although Marco sat on the team bench, it was another one – Rupert Marco, Willy Rotensteiner’s Austrian assistant. The sharp-eyed saw the confusion sitting in a booth at Bloomfield Stadium to which he was actually concealed by the national team coach.
Remember, in the previous team campaign, when Andy Herzog was still the team coach, Israel’s goalkeeping coach Klaus Lindberg was connected to her ears along with team captain Liron Glatt, next to whom sat Rotensteiner who was then the professional manager. Yesterday it was a confusion that made sure to move things to the bench towards assistant coach Rupert.
Confusion, a former national team player and who was expected to be the assistant coach in light of the more impressive record he has in training than Rupert, became a scout by Rotensteiner in the campaign opening game. Senior footballers were very surprised not to see the confusion on the national team bench and criticized Very big: “That’s why confusion went to the team? It’s not clear why Willie chose to make him a scout, instead of using his experience and knowledge in real time.”
