The owner of Hapoel B’Shlosha, Alona Barkat, teased Yossi Aboksis after he left and said that she hopes to “return to playing happy football”. In an interview she conducted, which probably did not help the silence of the actors. When Aliniv Barda and Maor Melikson got on the lines while she and her husband were in the stands at Turner, he sure was not happy.
Barkat, who was photographed quite a bit dealing with the mobile device, saw her team kick only three times into the frame in every 90 minutes in a loss to Maccabi Tel Aviv – a loss that could have been higher, if not for the guest’s uncommitted mistakes.
Apart from the loss and the weak ability, the club also dealt with matters of discipline – and how unsurprising that it is again Joshua, who may be prosecuted after being caught on TV making a spitting move in the direction of Maccabi Tel Aviv midfielder Avi Rikan. Despite the franchisee’s request, Joshua did not attend the interview as is customary in the bylaws and the group is expected to be fined.
“Leaving Abacus took the air out of Joshua,” Hapoel B’Shlosha players said, “Since leaving he has not been smiling, only angry and nervous.” The club is angry with the Portuguese star and his chances of staying on the team have diminished considerably.
Meanwhile, Aliniv Barda is not interested in continuing as a coach due to health problems he suffers from and in light of his desire to continue to be a professional manager. Maor Melikson no longer has a pro certificate, and the owner will have to make a decision on who will stand on the lines in the upcoming game against Hapoel Kfar Saba. The players admitted: “We need an urgent coach.”
Barkat knows that Ran Ben Shimon has an exit clause in every window of a quarter of a million NIS, but her good relationship with Jackie Ben Zaken and the respect she acquires for the owners of Ashdod led her to look for an alternative. Marco Belbul, as first reported yesterday on the Sports Channel, will ask for a season and a half Sharon Mimar is very close to Barkat and knows the system well, but has not yet been contacted. Roni Levy, who was supposed to land in Israel today, is stuck abroad due to the closure and has not yet been contacted.
One way or another, Barkat’s desire is to sign a coach until the end of the season so that in the summer she can sign Ben Shimon and on the condition that he receives the blessing of the road from an old man. The goal of the owner is to sign a coach soon and continue from there to strengthen at least two players: a foreign player and an Israeli. For the Israelis, Dor Micha, who again provided a good game yesterday in anorthosis, is on the agenda. Marohan Kabha, Tomer Yosefi and Cynthiaho Sollich are expected to return to the squad for Saturday’s game, which will add more depth to the team’s squad.