Doron Ben Dor
Maccabi Haifa fans (Omari Stein)
Against the background of the fact that Paris Saint-Germain, due to foreign considerations, does not transfer tickets to Maccabi Haifa as required by the regulations according to which the visiting team is supposed to receive five percent of the number of seats in the stadium, Maccabi Haifa turned to the accepted institutions of UEFA and filed a complaint on the matter.
The fans of Maccabi Haifa are angry and not willing to give up. About 4,000 of them intend to come to the game in any case even though they don’t have tickets yet and cheer outside the stadium if necessary. One of the team’s oldest fans who accompanies the Greens in all the games in Europe so far, Shai Shapira, said: “I bought two plane tickets together with my daughter and we were planning to go to Paris already a month ago.
No French will leave us in the country, we will arrive on their noses and anger. We already know the anti-Semitism of the French not from today. One thing is certain – we will defeat this anti-Semitism.” By the way, hundreds of fans have already booked flights to Paris, when some of the team’s fans bought tickets to the French stands.
Maccabi Haifa said: “Unfortunately, the difference is that we are a small team and they are a big club on a global scale, which allows itself to behave in this way.” The fans themselves flood the club with messages of support and write: “Nothing will stop us. Not the police, not PSG and certainly not pro-Palestinian organizations.”
On the professional level, Maccabi Haifa returns after the great victory 0:2 against Juventus to the reality of Israeli football and continues to prepare for the game against Hapoel Hadera without Dolev Haziza who is still injured. After the two losses against Hapoel Jerusalem and Bnei Rayna, the club is aware that it is strictly forbidden for there to be another drop if the team wants to retain the championship title for the third season in a row: “Losses against Jerusalem and Rayna are disappointing, certainly the loss against Rayna, but we will have to learn from this and quickly to come prepared In the best way for the game against Hadera,” said the team.
