Doron Ben Dor
Hapoel Haifa players (Omari Stein)
Hapoel Haifa will have to make painful decisions regarding the continuation of a large number of players, including some foreigners who may end their careers. The team that performed a facelift of no less than 12 new players goes from rejection to rejection and yesterday (Saturday) suffered its third loss in a row as part of the Toto Cup, 3:1 against Hadera, when Nir Klinger’s team also conceded their eighth goal in three games.
The criticism in the club is very harsh and the coach also does not come clean: “It is a shame and disgrace what is happening with us. There is nothing in the team. We have already reduced to 2:1, so why go and play with three stoppers? How can we absorb a goal from a corner from their stopper Sisa? He ‘Only’ 1.92, why should we keep him? We have a 200,000-euro Romanian defender like Andrei Miron, a veteran defender like Capiluto, full of years in the Premier League, and Dino Stieglitz who is close to 1.90 meters, and no one in the defense closes Sisa in the corner.
“Maybe if Sisa was 2.20 they would notice him. Is Nikta Motafan a player for Hapoel Haifa? Except for Andre Silva, who is of high quality, but very slow, the rest of the foreigners are very weak. Hadera’s children made us a school. Stiegletz tanked in the back, Yoav Katz gave and handed out checks to every player they asked for. We are in such a huge gap from the league. We are not at the level of a national league today. Which teams broke us up in the Toto Cup. We have no attack patterns, we have nothing, and it’s time to clear the foreigners one by one to close gaps.”
Owner Yoav Katz, who conducted the negotiations for the addition of Guy Mizrahi against Maccabi Tel Aviv, said: “We have added a young and talented player who will add quality to our defensive squad and help us achieve our goals.” As you remember, the 21-year-old right-back played last season in the city uniform of Kiryat Shmona (27 league appearances, 2 assists). Mizrahi who grew up in Maccabi Tel Aviv has 6 appearances in the uniform of Israel’s youth teams.
Hapoel Haifa would like to console themselves by the fact that two Maccabi Tel Aviv players, defender Guy Mizrahi and midfielder Tamir Glazer, will start training with the team today, who are supposed to strengthen the defensive part, what else about Hapoel Tel Aviv Alon Turgeman and Shovel Gozlan, who were not in the squad because they were not feeling well, Should get back to business.
