Raz Amir 22/05/2024 17:14
Ofek Malika with Ben Mansford and his father Yaron Malika (Maccabi Tel Aviv’s official web site)
Maccabi Tel Aviv formally introduced in the present day the signing of the younger goalkeeper, Ofek Malika, on a contract till the top of the 2028/29 season. He signed via his agent, Avi Nemani. The transfer from Maccabi Petah Tikva was accomplished with out the Malabas receiving any compensation for it, because the participant’s card was within the palms of the goalkeeper’s household and the yellow crew paid about 1,000,000 NIS for the cardboard.
Malika stated after the signing: “I thanks for the belief positioned in me. Becoming a member of Maccabi Tel Aviv, the nationwide champion, is the dream of each little one who begins his profession in Israeli soccer. Being the third era of goalkeepers at Maccabi after my father and grandfather is an thrilling place for me. I’m already ready to fulfill my buddies to the locker room, to review and work exhausting in order that I can show myself and on the identical time assist the crew obtain all its targets.”
Malika is the primary signing of the Yellows for the subsequent sport season and is predicted at this stage to function the membership’s second goalkeeper, whereas Roy Mishfati would be the first goalkeeper. Daniel Tanenbaum and Orlando Muscara will go away the Yellows this summer time. This isn’t the top of the story within the goalkeeping place and relying on the affairs of the skilled crew, it’s attainable that through the summer time a call will likely be made to herald a international goalkeeper. For the time being anyway, the scenario is that my lips are primary and Lika is quantity two.
Ofek Malika (the official web site of Maccabi Tel Aviv)
As printed in ONE, the Yellows made an official supply to Malika firstly of the month with the intention to signal him after he had been beneath their surveillance because the time he performed for Hapoel Ra’anana, and the contractual alternative that beckoned undoubtedly helped – to get a promising goalkeeper from Maccabi Petah Tikva with out having to barter with the Malavas.
Malika, born in 2005, completed youth age when he was 19 and a half years outdated and gained the youth league championship this season with Maccabi Petah Tikva. Earlier than that he performed in Hapoel Ra’anana as a goalkeeper within the youth crew and similtaneously a goalkeeper within the senior crew within the First League.
Maccabi Tel Aviv believes that it is a very attention-grabbing expertise and due to this fact acted to signal him rapidly. Ofek Malika is the son of Yaron Malika, who was a goalkeeper at Maccabi Tel Aviv, like his late grandfather Shmuel Malika, and his great-grandfather, the late Aharon Malika, who was additionally a goalkeeper however on the crimson facet of town.
Ofek Veyron Malika (Maccabi Tel Aviv’s official web site) Robbie Eager and Roni Levy on the press convention
