2024-03-22 13:42:00
Hapoel Jerusalem ended its run in the FIBA Champions League a few days ago, after a painful loss to Karshaika, which led to the relegation of the Reds and the dismissal of the team’s coach, Elias Kantsouris. In the press stand last night (Thursday), Zvika Sharaf commented on the season of the Jerusalemites and their professional mistakes .
“Canzoris was not suitable to be a coach,” said Sharaf, “I know Greek basketball, Erez Edelstein too. I knew that Kanzoris in Greece was not a coach. Hapoel Jerusalem after Dzikic was difficult for any coach. So why didn’t they go for an Israeli coach ? So now they come to some Israeli coach, “Come be a rag and manage the team for two months.”
“Cansouris, out of the last 20 years, was an assistant coach for 17 years,” continued the legendary coach, “Trankiari recommended him, the same Trankiari who lost three championships with Bayern. It’s simply a lack of understanding and reading of the situation. They are in Jerusalem and they know the team, but everything passed over them”.
“When I saw on Friday that they weren’t dressing Speedy Smith, who is the only coordinator, because he didn’t want to run, so they got a head start from Po’el Tel Aviv. It was a shame. I sat at home and cringed on the couch. From there they went to play against Krashyaka and were eliminated. It’s a failure. Why doesn’t the professional manager go home? Because we don’t go home so fast. In order to be a professional manager of a foot or basketball team, you must first be weak. You will work for ten years as a coach and after that you will start to become a professional manager.”
“I don’t want to talk about myself,” concluded Scharf, when asked if he could have coached Jerusalem, “Gal should have picked up the phone and asked if I knew Kanzouris. He didn’t do it. Three months ago when I said it was a mistake that Kadin Carrington, who wants Citizenship in the national team, he didn’t return with the foreigners, Mekel called me and said “Why are you saying that, it’s not true”. I told him “Tell him he is coming”. After that at Mickey Berkowitz’s ceremony he did shake my hand.”
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