Raz Amir |
Yonatan Paz (official website of Maccabi Tel Aviv)
The youth team of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Yonatan Portugaz Paz, wants to leave Maccabi Tel Aviv immediately and has recently asked for this from a number of sources, including the sports director of the department, Claudio Braga. The player, who grew up in the club from the age of 6 playing in all the link positions and in the various youth teams teamed up several times in the offensive section, does not get significant minutes this season in the youth team and is disappointed with his status in the team.
Paz was born in January 2003 and is in his final youth year, so he is at a critical time in his career. However, the Yellows, first under Uri David and now under the new youth coach, Peter van den Berg, do not give him minutes to play and the player is a partner this season in only nine games in all settings when only once this season he completed 90 minutes, in the State Cup against Ashkelon. Interim coach Dedi Ben Dayan.
Since the start of 2022 and since the appointment of coach Peter van den Berg, Paz’s minutes have dropped even more when he has not been a partner at all in the last three league games. In the middle, a conversation took place with Braga, in which the player asked for a release or even to be transferred on loan to another team, but the Yellows flatly refused, claiming that they believed in him and saw him as one of the club’s future connections.
Paz joins Lanner Oshmandi, another contact in the department who recently asked to leave. For Paz, however, the situation is even more significant since he does not get significant minutes of play at all. After the talks with Braga and the platoon captains, his status devalued even more when in practice he began practicing in other positions, an act that conveys how hard they try to find a place for the player without understanding the sensitivity of the delicate situation in which the player is and allow him to leave, even on loan. In a critical season for his future.
It should be noted that this is a player who is considered a very big promise, a regular player in the Israeli national team, which Maccabi hurried to sign a contract at the age of 15 and is under contract until the end of next season. Professionals involved in the youth departments tell of a diverse player who knows how to combine defensive and offensive abilities, a modern football player who can play in several positions and has high potential, so his departure may turn out to be a loss to the club.
However, the player is determined to leave the club immediately in light of his disappointment with his status in the team and the conduct of the club in front of him.
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