Hapoel Kfar Saba suffered a heavy blow today (Friday) when they lost 2:0 to Achi Nazareth, a loss that significantly harms their chances of advancing to the top playoffs. Immediately afterwards, the team’s CEO, Idan Shum, spoke in the National League studio about the relationship with the team’s coach, Omer Peretz, and his father Yitzhak Shum.
era of garlic, CEO of Hapoel Kfar Saba: “We, as group owners, are responsible. Our responsibility, but nothing can happen from the dance of demons that revolves around Yitzchak. It’s not possible for me to hear my coach criticizing the owner and that he gets backed up, certainly when he gets money from me. Yitzhak Shum started coaching in 1983, it’s impossible for a coach to start arguing with him during training.”
The CEO continued: “I’m not angry about losses, I lost as a player too. I also lost as an actor, but for 26 years nothing was demanded of me and I was mediocre. That’s why we constantly demand, I constantly demand. We pay players to be good. Omer Peretz, the coach, was here last week and said that everything is good – the players, the coaches, the training. If that’s true, how are we in 9th place?”
Shum addressed the accusations against him and his father: “We can be relegated and be in 10th place. If I wanted to coach I would be a coach, my father is not interested in attacking football. Today we came to a game against a disbanded team, which does not receive salaries, whose coach is leaving and for us it is a game for 500 A thousand shekels – the amount a top playoff is worth – but we lost at home.”
The CEO continued: “I say one simple thing: in the end you can criticize Yitzhak Shum for firing a coach, but we kept a coach. Should we get an award? It will not pass in silence. I am emotional and need air, not only related to the coach himself. It can’t be, we have a responsibility. There are fans who are against us or with us, it doesn’t matter. We will sit down, the owner is my father and we will decide together, but you cannot underestimate Yitzhak Shum. What he did backwards is what no one will do forwards.”
Shum spoke extensively about the career and image of his father, one of the greatest coaches Israeli football has ever known: “Do I expect Omer Peretz to resign? I don’t know. There are coaches who know that they will coach tomorrow as well, not everyone with a coaching certificate is a coach. Omer Peretz is a young coach who should listen to Yitzhak Shum who took a double in Panathinaikos and Beitar Jerusalem. It pains me that they turned my father, the owner of the team and a 73-year-old man to whom the team is important, into something like this. We are ready to sell the team, but we need a person to come and offer something concrete. No one offered anything, all nonsense. We don’t hold the altar funds, but I have a youth department of 1,500 children.”
“I don’t expect Omer Peretz to go home. I don’t expect him to do anything in the media, but Omer Peretz is a joke in relation to my father. Give respect to Yitzhak Shum. My father fired a coach that everyone wanted to return here, he never determined the team or style of play. We lost today And look who,” he signed.