When Barak Abramov speaks, it will always be unstoppable. Bnei Yehuda faced a severe case of violence last weekend when a barrage of stones was thrown at his car at the end of the defeat to Hapoel Petah Tikva. Starting tomorrow, I will be leaving Bnei Yehuda. “An extraordinary interview.
Barak Abramov: “The crowd rioted inside the field. We went outside, anyone who knows the colony knows that there is a compound that separates the fans from the car. The fans cursed and attacked, wanted to see that everything was fine. I contacted the police, I said it was happening. They asked me how I felt, they told me to bring a police force. They sent a police force, a police officer came to me a few minutes later. I told him I trusted him but I wanted to be safe. They told me where to go with the vehicle, they opened a secret gate for me. The police told me everything was fine. I left the field, I drove, I took Back to the road. ”
“I estimate that about 20 people came out of the road, with stones. If I had stopped the car, I would have been injured, if I could not hit the fans. They blocked the road. If I had stopped, there was a lynching, in Gaza it was one by one. If someone gets stones for a car The policeman does not stop the thrower? “
Abramov spoke of the big picture: “It’s not just football and not just today. On Friday it was the Nisnov brothers, before that Moshe was celebrating and before him Eli Tabib. The league should be shut down, we asked for an emergency meeting. The association has no interest in preventing the stone throwing. “.
“I will be fined for throwing stones at me. It could have happened to Alona Barkat and Yankele Shachar as well. The team owners are not the punching bag of Israeli football. If you succeed or fail, you have to take things in proportion, there are families and people here. Why do I stay? I did everything I could to get back to the Premier League. I did everything I could, I think I brought in the best people that can be brought to the club in the National League. Unfortunately we stayed in the league, not because of us. “We stayed in the league. Of course I feel like a failure, but I don’t think I did anything wrong.”
Abramov spoke about his time at Bnei Yehuda: “If I went back I would do everything the same. Unfortunately things did not work out, this is football. Tell you I have a drive? I have no drive. I made an appointment with my lawyers tomorrow afternoon to see how I do the The best way, I do not see that there will be a buyer for Bnei Yehuda. The club has no debts, everything is paid and sampled. There will be no problem of money, it is the best club that can be bought in terms of economic viability. I will meet my obligations “A buyer is good. If not, the club will be on the shelf and will exist on its own.”
“The car itself does not interest me, that’s not the story. I went through a lynching. Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a coward and not a person who is prone to superlatives, it’s not me. I drove and bent down, I will not put another shekel on Bnei Yehuda. “Avitan tried to want to leave. I will not stand in his way. As long as he does not ask, I will not release him. I hope the club will succeed, but I do not know what will happen. I do not see a football club, owner and coach who can play like that.” Said the owner.
Abramov commented on the various players: “They did not sell the game, but it is a sale of twenty-something games. It is not one game that we look like, it is like that almost all season. The bottom for me, because we did not win a game we had to win, it is not thanks to us. If this team made a bottom playoff after dropping points to the Reds Ashdod it does not matter. To me, the players are not connected and unrealistic to what is happening at the club. “
The owner revealed an amazing story about Or Zehavi, the brakeman who opened the season at Bnei Yehuda: “When you have contracts with players and no one wants to go you look for a solution. When there is no solution what do you do? Let them play. There were players who left and some we brought. When you pay so much. A lot of money for a player like Eliran Atar he needs to understand that he has a commitment. When a player asks for huge sums, 90% of the players do not earn what he earns and he has a commitment. Unfortunately Eliran Atar, like the other players, fails and fails big. I want to give them satisfaction. During the season we were in first place, we had a game against Rishon Lezion. Before the game Tal Ben Haim called me, today he is an agent, and told me he should meet me. I asked why, he said he did not want to say on the phone. Ben Haim “He said that he now represents the brake light, if he does not receive a significant upgrade in the contract, he will say that he is injured and will not play.”
“He has Premier League offers, if you do not want to release him upgrade him. We are first place, why destroy what exists? Where is the gratitude? Or Zahavi has been sitting at home since October. It’s something that happens all the time in football. It’s what happens with a leading player. “Because he tried to spend money. Understand how rotten the system was. Once the locker room was rotten the club could not succeed. I put more money in the last two years than I ever put in Bnei Yehuda, we failed in both.”
“I wanted to do everything to get a league up, see it in my actions and not just in words. I brought players in every position. The whole system remained a system of the Premier League. If I threw players you would criticize me. I turned to Ren Kadosh countless times and was willing to pay. Did not leave then either he did not try or did not want him.I keep the rules, I will not hurt the salaries of players.I talked about those players.Take Almog Bouzaglo, a great boy.Amazing boy.If I was at the club and I could sign him for another year I would do “He is not in a good season, but there is nothing wrong with him. He is in a less good season professionally. There are players who are both less professional and less personal and at sea. There is a sentence that says that if the feet do not speak, the mouth speaks in their place.”
“Yossi Aboksis failed, we failed as a system. Aboksis failed. In football sometimes they succeed and sometimes they fail. Players believed the league was small for them and believed they would rise. Even when they realized it was not like that, that it was harder, they did not make an effort. That’s what hurts me. Such a thing in Israeli football. I understand fans, it hurts me too. I feel bad too. But you should not react like that. You can protest, you can be in the stands, but illegitimate stones. I did not deserve any curse, I did everything for the club. There are three people who manage “The club, that’s the whole story. The extra costs are security, we pay sixty thousand shekels in every game for Bloomfield. Hadera does not do that,” Abramov added.
“I will leave the group quickly so that the cooling-off period will begin as soon as possible. I will stop investing my money and time in Bnei Yehuda. Betar Jerusalem is not for me at the moment, it is in great economic prosperity. “Only a billionaire can take Betar. I’m starting a year’s chill, maybe after that I’ll buy a team. I’ll not buy just to say I bought. Now the ball is in the fans’ court.”
“I want to end my period in Bnei Yehuda in the best possible way. Unfortunately, there is a fear that Bnei Yehuda will delete. If a buyer does not come, it will delete,” the owner concluded the interview and his period in the group.