A big sigh of relief in Hapoel Tel Aviv after the 0:1 victory over Maccabi Netanya yesterday (Saturday). The players and the professional staff allowed themselves to celebrate at the end after a long period, both on the grass with the fans and in the dressing room. The professional team and management thought it was right to let the players be happy, even though the road to staying in the league is still far: “Until there is a reason to be happy, we have to let them. Along with the celebrations, we reminded them that nothing is closed yet and that we have two more games, each of which is a final game,” the Reds emphasized at the end .
Salim Toamah stood on the lines again, holding a meeting with the players before they went on the field: “He said he wanted to go through one by one and hug us, and that’s what he did,” shared one of the players. “He told us that he believes in us, knows that we are capable of doing it. Then he talked with all of us together and said that there is no point in talking about tactics anymore, that we know what we have to do, that from now on it’s just heart and soul, and then he just started raging in the dressing room, Yelled, jumped, threw things on the floor, drove us crazy and raised our energies.”
The management was also in awe of Toama: “You don’t understand the energy he brings and produces in the dressing room” they said at the end, and another player added: “Toama is something special. When he starts talking we feel how much he loves Hapoel, how much he cares about the club and how much he hurts about the situation We go up to play for him too.”
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The one who received compliments for the game is Stav Toriel, who even when the team looked less good, was a bright spot on the grass. “He is talented and full of confidence, quiet with the ball, does not collapse under pressure” said the professional team about the player who also meets the criteria to be called up to Guy Luzon’s team for the Olympics. Hapoel Tel Aviv has already received a letter from the association ahead of the Olympics for medical examinations of Omer Senior, Ran Binyamin, Or Israelov and Toriel. Another person who received compliments is Ihab Ganaim: “We can say that thanks to him we won. He stopped a ball on the goal line, stood correctly and saved us from an equalizing goal,” said the professional team.
The team backs up goalkeeper Roy Burns, who takes the place of the injured Zobas: “This is a super talented goalkeeper, we see it in training, we saw it long before Zobas’ injury. There is someone to trust in this sense, but you have to remember that he is still young and the pressure affects him “. The second goalkeeper for Burns is the youth goalkeeper Binyamin, while Matt Frank, who came from the USA and is considered to be the signing of David Mintzberg, is not in the squad for the second week despite Zobas’ injury. Last week the club explained that he was sick and missed training, and yesterday it became clear that in one of the training sessions He was injured and suffered a concussion from which he has yet to fully recover.
Meanwhile, there seems to be a ticket frenzy surrounding the match against Ashdod next week. Already yesterday after the game, ticket sales opened and about 17,000 fans have already secured their seats (including subscribers). The seats for gates 7 and 2 were completely sold out and the Reds decided to open gate 8 for sale as well. In order to succeed in bringing 20,000 fans as they expect, the club decided to sell a ticket for only NIS 25. A total of 7,500 tickets were sold.
