The multiplicity of errors by the chief judges and the video judges led today (Monday) to a mandatory conference when all senior faculty judges were asked to be a part of it through the zoom. Most of the fire was received by Liran Liani and Eli Hachmon, who will not return to judge immediately after the break, according to recent past cases such as Snir Levy and Daniel Bar Natan. “There will be no where and where,” union officials said.
The one who kidnapped and not for the first time this season is Liani, who managed the game between Betar Jerusalem and Hapoel Haifa. This is because in the 40th minute Liani deprived Betar when he did not keep Tomer Altman away following a brutal entry in Ophir Krieff.
Liani, a former senior and international judge of Israel, continued to hear arguments. The national guide, Haim Yaakov, projected Roi Kehat Makash’s injury against Hapoel Haifa, an offense for which Uriel Greenfeld did not issue a red card and Liani had to be called.
“I believe in a player who tried to kick the ball, but from the moment of the ball until the hit there is a long gap where the player did not make even a drop attempt to fold, hitting the player’s knee,” Yaakov said. “He had time to make an effort to fold and he does not, for us a red card including intervention.” Liani, by the way, contrary to the other judges and contrary to the order to sit zoomed in with a representative shirt, did not turn on the camera, something they did not like in the union.
At the conference, the union was also visited by referee Eli Hachmon, who as a video referee called Aviad Shiloah after an offense that was not about giving a contract in the game between Bnei Yehuda and Maccabi Tel Aviv. However, Hachmon also made a mistake in Hapoel B’Shlosha’s game against Maccabi Haifa, when the referee did not draw a second yellow card to Neta Lavi after stepping on the Reds player.
