The social networks are noisy and tumultuous, since it was published in all the media that Omar Atzili and Dor Micha may return to Israel next month, with the opening of the transfer window. I will state in advance my position that Noble and Micha should not return to Israel, or rather, the teams in Israel should not absorb them until the end of the season. One year in another league, clearing themselves of the big story they had with the two young women, would not hurt them. On the contrary, a year of cooling overseas will only help them.
Both are excellent players, both can play in the first team in any team in the country, but we are not talking about the professional side. The two do not make a force in Cyprus, they are not prominent and have problems within their group, so they also very much want to return to their comfort zone, here in beloved Israel. Here they are kings, they will get huge love in any team they sign, but not this year, just next season. The explanation for this for me is very simple. Noble and Micah committed an offense that is of moral value, not criminal. They have a very large influence in Israel, probably among football fans.
The owner of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Mitch Goldhaar, did not wait a single minute to hear what the police would decide or what the prosecution would decide in the matter of the two. For him, a football club is much more than just another league or cup game, or a success in Europe. A big club the size of Maccabi Tel Aviv could not even win the championship without the two.
Because there are big things from the game itself, such as tens of thousands of boys and girls, young men and women fans of the team, thousands of boys and girls playing in the club and wearing the team shirt every day. The same shirt was also worn by Noble and Micha. As long as the two were talked about as excellent football players the pride was great, but once they did what they did, Goldhaar realized he would have to give answers to those parents of the many children. He escaped like wildfire and did so in the most classic way.
2020 is already a different year, a very advanced year. Once upon a time many years ago, they could have moved on to this agenda with an apology. Today, the world is completely different. Many women’s organizations fight such phenomena in Israel and around the world, and it is no longer possible to move on to the agenda, any other decision was immoral and value-based by the club, which owed a lot of answers to quite a few organizations and especially to parents.
That will not be misunderstood. Noble and Micha are two good kids, not problematic, without disciplinary offenses, educated, I would even say that sometimes in the post-game interview position they seemed shy to me. The act they did, does not make them bad children or, God forbid, criminals. The picture that was published of Dor Micha’s parents who were on vacation and made the decision of the police and the prosecutor that the two would not stand trial, was very moving. Happy jumps that only dad and mom can understand this horrible feeling. But the parents of Azili and Micha also know and understand that their sons made a mistake. And for mistakes paid.
No one thought they should sit in jail, but for such a moral and value offense of two excellent players who took advantage of their great power, it is impossible to move on to the agenda. And here today, that there may be a possibility that the two will return to Israel, the great hypocrisy has risen for her.
I’m not talking about fans. These, for the sake of success, do not interest them at all. That’s what I heard from Maccabi Haifa fans who want Noble, because they want a championship. That’s how I heard from Betar Jerusalem and Maccabi Tel Aviv fans that they are not interested in anything, they want both. “What was was, can be forgiven, the great thing is to forgive,” they say. And the hypocrisy? It follows that after Goldhar announced to the two that they were released from the group, no other group in Israel took them.
Today it is already possible to take the two. Why? Because they were not charged with crimes and cleared by the prosecution. But even at the time of the case they were entitled, and Goldhaar did not want them only from a moral and ethical point of view. The morals and values are still here, with nothing to do with the police.
It would be very puzzling to me if Yaakov Shachar, who has a huge club like Maccabi Tel Aviv, takes Omar Atzili when Mitch Goldhaar does not want to hear about him. Yaakov Shachar also has tens of thousands of boys and girls, young and old, hundreds in the youth department and most importantly everyone Some parents are educating.
A footballer is a public figure, he serves as an example to children. It does not make sense to me that Shahar, will skip all of these in order to win the championship, because at the entrance to the training grounds of the youth department there is a huge sign that says “The man before the player”. And this is exactly the classic case of examining Maccabi Haifa, because otherwise the sign on the Haifa pitches should be “first championship of all.”
