Raz Amir
Itamar Shabiru (Shahar Gross)
The Israeli national team closed its two friendly games in the World Cup break last night (Sunday) with a 3:2 loss to the Cypriot national team at the Moshava Stadium. The one who started in the lineup and this time did not find the back of the net, after he did so in the 2:4 victory over Zambia a few days ago, is the wanted striker of Kiryat Shmona – Itamar Shabiru. The striker’s name has already been associated with candidacy for Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa, when at this stage the issue of the high price demanded by Izzy Sharetzky is what is preventing a deal regarding him.
At the same time, after the match against Cyprus, Shabiro himself hinted that it is very possible that he will make the big move to one of the two mentioned clubs in January: “I am happy that I received a call-up to the national team, there are amazing guys here and it was a dream come true to be here. We will go into the break , there is time until January and I believe there will be developments in January. I really like Kiryat Shmona and we’ll see what happens next,” said Shabiru.
“We are happy that a crowd came to the game, and children came with their parents, we were happy to hug them to us and we can only hope that it will continue like this. We came to this game with an excellent attitude, the team prepared us at a very high level, but the first goal ruined our plans. We changed our attitude in the second half and it’s a shame that we were not able to win In the end,” he added regarding the Israeli national team.
On another issue, Maccabi Tel Aviv midfielder Dan Glazer did not participate in the team’s last game against Cyprus and was left out of another squad who complained of knee sensitivity, but the rest now with going on vacation should be one that will stop him from overcoming it.
Maccabi Tel Aviv was very happy for Oscar Gloch for his beautiful debut goal in the national uniform and also for the good performance between the posts by Daniel Peretz, who although had to take three balls out of the net, but provided a series of saves that prevented a heavy defeat in the game.
The players who were not part of the Israeli national team will return to training tomorrow (Tuesday) in Kiryat Shalom, while those who were part of the national team received several days off until they leave for the training camp in Antalya, Turkey early next week.
