Raz Amir
Tennenbaum. Will Willie be number 1? (Radad Jabara)
The Football Association holds a legal opinion from FIFA that allows the Israeli team to summon the Brazilian-Jewish goalkeeper, Daniel Tennenbaum, starting in September. This follows the publication in ONE around the question of whether the Maccabi Tel Aviv goalkeeper could be part of Willy Rotensteiner’s staff or not, given that FIFA considers a calendar year as such in which the player completed 183 days.
Further, in the opinion held by the association, it is stated that the calculation in these regulations does refer to the date on which the player arrived in Israel. The association examined and found that in order for a year to be defined as a year, Tennenbaum had to be in Israel for at least 183 days between August 2016 and 2017, and thus between August 2017 and 2018 onwards. The Brazilian is known to have passed the required quota of days in all these years and therefore, the Israeli team will be able to schedule it from August 31 for the next round of games to be held in September.
For the upcoming summit already announced Tennenbaum was irrelevant and coach Willy Rotensteiner invited Ophir Marciano, Boris Kleiman and Itamar Nitzan. However, if the goalkeeper of Maccabi Tel Aviv continues to show the high ability as he shows this season until the end, there is not a bad chance at all that he will be part of the next summons of the Austrian coach. These are the games against the Faroe Islands (outside), Austria (home) and Denmark (outside).
Israel will open its World Cup qualifying campaign this week in a home game against Denmark at Bloomfield Stadium on Thursday. She will then host Scotland at Bloomfield and go on to play away against Moldova.
