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The new-old coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Vladan Ivic, held a press conference today (Wednesday) ahead of the new season and on the occasion of the opening of his second term at the club. The Serb, who coached the Yellows with great success in the years 2018-2020, will try to return the championship title to Kiryat Shalom and also march Maccabi Tel Aviv to a successful European season. His team will open its way in the Conference League qualifiers against the arena from Azerbaijan, in eight days. Tomorrow (20:00, Sport 4) the team will play against Maccabi Netanya in the European track in the Toto Cup.
Yellows professional manager Barak Yitzhaki: “Of course we have an intention to strengthen in a number of positions. I do not want to talk about specific names. If we have something to update, we will update.” On the conclusions from last year: “This year we made an earlier preparation, we have more positions that we would like to strengthen and we will do it as soon as possible.”
On the decision to bring back Ivica: “Once the option came back he knew we wanted to go for it. In the previous period he was here we had a relatively good system, but I can say we had some very good candidates, but I’m sure we made the best choice “.
On Eran Zehavi: “He underwent surgery a few weeks ago and we do not want to put pressure on him. Eran is known as someone who works very hard, and he will do the right thing. We do not want to put a load on him, give him the time and hope to see him on the pitch as soon as possible.” .
On the success of Oscar Gluch: “We were happy with everyone and jumped at the goals. We saw the youth team’s games in the Netherlands and we were excited. Oscar is a Maccabi Tel Aviv player and I understand the noise around him, he also finished last season well and made a great championship – but right now “We do not deal with it, he is a player of Maccabi Tel Aviv. Of course, if there are offers, we will not hide it from anyone.”