“Spray pepper gas for fun”: Rage in Holon

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It was a stormy evening yesterday (Saturday) in Romema: Hapoel Haifa defeated Hapoel Holon 76:83 in a game full of stories – on the parquet, on the benches and even outside the walls of the hall.

We will start with the violent event before and during the game. After a confrontation broke out outside some of the Holon fans and the security forces, one of the Hapoel Holon fans was arrested and taken to the police station. In Holon, an accusing finger is pointed at the security forces, since according to the club’s members, the incident escalated after one of the security guards hit the face of one of the fans, who was evacuated to the hospital.

The Chairman Ethan Lanciano, Responded: “The cops, ‘our heroes’, managed to arrest a second-year student, an IDF fighter, who just wanted to see a game of his beloved team, instead of stopping security guards, who rioted and sent a fan to a hospital and sprayed pepper spray for fun. This is what four ‘brave’ policemen did, and no, in Rahat or the Negev you will not see them. Let someone wake up. “

And there was a game in Romema yesterday, from which Hapoel Holon did not come out particularly pleased either. It recorded a third league loss, when all the losses, by the way, were against red teams that came in a kind of crisis – Hapoel Jerusalem, Hapoel Tel Aviv and yesterday Hapoel Haifa. Steven Gray and Joe Ragland added 41 points in common, but other than that, the rest of Maurizio Buscalia’s rotation players were below their level. Steve Zack’s debut (11 minutes, 2 points) was lukewarm.

“I will not talk about defense or attack, we just did not play as a team and made a lot of mistakes on both sides of the pitch, it was a very bad game for us,” said Buscalia. “We have to work and maintain stability because we have too many ups and downs for 40 minutes. We have taken a step back in this game.”

Although Holon recently added Zack to the box of the injured Mark Ogden, the team continues to think of further changes, with the goal being to add a quality guard at one point or another, possibly even as a foreigner, and not necessarily in place of one of the existing players on the roster. “If we want to go as far as possible,” they said in Holon. “The existing staff is good, it is clear that we will win quite a bit and maybe even finish high, but what is there at the moment will not be enough for more.”

On the other hand, Hapoel Haifa released a lot of pressure with a prestigious victory over a quality opponent, which brought it back to the battle for the first eight at the end of the first round. for Elad Hussein It was a very unconventional game: he was sent off after two technical fouls, when in the first half he was hit in the face by a ball and a broken tooth. “It was a victory in the teeth, literally,” Hussein joked at the end. “Credit should be given to all the players who worked hard and brought a lot of energy. It is a victory for the system, from chairman Yuval Rossman to the last people in the club, everyone is mobilizing for the team and we are very happy.”

Haifa were satisfied with the ability of the new chin, James Dickie who finished with 8 points and 12 rebounds in his debut in red. Will Reiman (14 points) was also very good, but above all it was Kadim Allen, who provided a wonderful display with 22 points, most of them in Money Time. “He has a big heart, but it’s a team victory first and foremost,” Hussein concluded. “We fought and defended in the last minutes, we knew how to win a great team and I hope to continue on the path in the next game.”

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