Gidi Lipkin
The Football Association (Shahar Gross)
Following the publication in ONE about the difficult exchange within the management of the football association between the members of the management Michael ‘Kihala’ Weissman and Avi Kaufman against the background of a new league structure in the children’s and boys’ leagues, Weissman attacked the decision.
The board member told ONE: “We should have demanded at the time the criteria that led us to approve and we were wrong. But the whole new structure is a scandal, Israel Bluff and will not pass. The representatives of the big clubs sat on the committee. The big teams want to continue growing, to steal the 9-14-year-old players, Most of them in general become cash register kids who pay hundreds of shekels a month and most of them do not play. I am preparing to inform all members of the association’s management of the demand after the conferences with the youth departments throughout the country – to return the issue to the association’s decision.”
Weissman continued: “The big clubs want to continue to control, to make decisions for everyone, the whole matter of the criteria they set to determine where each team will play, it is intended to serve the big clubs and not the good of Israeli football. They keep saying, Yella Hoss, he is interested in what happens above Not what happens below. Set criteria that don’t fit and it won’t pass.”
