It is supposed to be a festive ceremony, one that symbolizes tradition, but over the years the retro has become a curse for Maccabi Haifa fans. Tonight (Monday), the Greens will once again try to break the menus and come up with a special uniform in tribute to a team that won a double in the 1990/91 season. A moment ago, we went out to check how hard it is for them to win with retro uniforms and what happens when you head south to Tel Aviv and change the color of the shirt to yellow?
Maccabi Haifa
The champion has come up four times with retro uniforms over the years. The last time was last year, when the Greens paid tribute to the team that won the championship in the 1984/85 season, but “settled” for 1: 1 against Maccabi Petah Tikva in Sami Ofer. Even before that, in the 2013/14 season, Haifa signed a period in Kiryat Eliezer with a retro uniform. To the championship in 1993/94 – but even in this case she could not win and finished 2-2 against Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Think it’s over? Well, not yet. In the cup final against Hapoel Tel Aviv in the 2011/12 season, the Greens came up with a retro uniform from the last team that won the trophy, but lost 2: 1 in real time. In 2008/09, Haifa closed the season with the familiar striped uniform, a reminder of the 1983/84 season , And this time too did not come out with the three points on the way to 1: 1 against Betar Jerusalem.
Maccabi Tel Aviv
The last time Maccabi Tel Aviv tried their luck with a uniform from the past was last year, when they wore the famous “Discotheque Palladium” uniform in memory of the championship season in 1991/92, but the Yellows “did not withstand the pressure” and finished 1-1 against Ashdod in the frame. The top playoff.
Apart from the same game, unlike Nemesis from Haifa, the Yellows actually know how to respect the teams of the past. Two seasons ago, Maccabi launched a retro uniform inspired by the double season in 1976/77 and defeated Hapoel Tel Aviv 0: 3 in a derby. 85 and defeated Maccabi Petah Tikva 0: 2. In the 17/18 season, as well as in the derby of the 2005/06 season, Maccabi played a tribute game to the double season in 95/96 and achieved two victories: 0: 3 over Maccabi Netanya, and 0: 2 over Hapoel Tel Aviv.
Bonus: Betar Jerusalem
Although the team from the capital did not have many games with retro uniforms, the only game that was played ended in a painful loss. It happened in the 2020/21 season, so the yellow-blacks made a rather light blue conversion and even celebrated it with joint photos of Eli Ohana and Michael Ohana, but did not manage to win and absorbed 1: 0 from Bnei Yehuda.
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