Maccabi Tel Aviv continued to remember one of Israel’s greatest players and all time legends in Yellow-and-Blue, Avi Cohen. This evening, the youth clubs gathered together by the memorial site named for Avi Cohen at the Kiryat Shalom Training Facility where Youth Department Director Nir Levin spoke about the great player of the past.
The youth department representative, Maxim Grechkin, read the sign located in the department that also features a picture of Avi. Levin also read the interview that was done with Ally McCoist, Cohen’s teammate at Rangers in Scotland and talked about his amazing Umbrella Derby goal.
Dorit and Tamir, Avi’s widow and son, were also present at the memorial. Dorit told the youngsters about Avi’s youth days with Maccabi Tel Aviv and spoke to them about who he was as a person. The last part of the memorial was conducted by Tamir who himself was once a player with Maccabi Tel Aviv and Yehuda Livni, the longtime veteran youth department coach who managed both Avi and Tamir and told stories about their time growing up at Maccabi Tel Aviv.
