2024-02-02 09:01:24
I want to go back to football. Berkovic Photo: Sport 5
Hapoel Rishon LeZion from the National League may return to the hands of Eyal Berkovic, who has expressed interest in returning to serve as the owner of the club that has deteriorated to the bottom of the National League. The team from the city of wine will wait until after the upcoming municipal elections to determine a replacement for Amos Luzon, who wants to leave the club.
Berkowitz is considered a success story in Israel and during his time as owner the team even competed for promotion to the Premier League. Even before that, Berkowitz was the owner of Nesher and there was also a success story. Recently, Berkowitz returned to express interest in purchasing a soccer team and, among other things, conducted negotiations with Hapoel Ramat Gan .
Officials in Rashtrapati, who are very disappointed with the state of the football and basketball branches in the city, which have sunk into the grayness of the second league, see Berkovich as the right person to lead the soccer club to better days. Senior officials in the Rashtrapati Municipality are interested in finding a new owner after the Idan Amos Luzon era and not leaving the club to municipal management and municipal control.
As mentioned, the municipality will first of all wait for the results of the mayoral and council elections in about three weeks to make decisions. According to Berkowitz’s outline, if the deal goes through, he will arrive in Rashel with another businessman, who is supposed to conduct the talks and negotiations with the municipality together with attorney Shay Elias, who is close to Berkowitz.
Rashtrak has gone through many shocks and already has 3 coaches this season, Yuval Naim Ofir Kopel and Eldad Shavit, and is one of those marked for relegation to League A. In that case, the deal may not be done at all. Recently, in order to try to bring in new and local blood, the status of Amir Kinslich, brother of The mayor, and is more involved in the day-to-day management.
A source familiar with the details and developments: “It is clear that Eyal Berkowitz is a bright name and he has done very good things for football in Israel, but we have to wait until the upcoming elections. There are other proposals and the possibility of keeping the youth department as a separate unit is being considered, which may prevent the renewed engagement, which There are other offers. Berkowitz expressed his interest, but at the moment it is still a long way off and there are still things that need to be resolved. In any case, the municipality is not interested in managing the group of graduates in the future, and the thought of a new owner, including Eyal Berkowitz, does exist.”
The full story tonight (Friday, 17:30, live on 5SPORT) in “There’s a situation on Friday”.
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