Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Youth Academy is maintaining contacts with other clubs throughout the country and on Thursday it held the first of three meetings as part of the football cooperation project when Ori David, the coach of U17, shared information about the clubs approach and coaching methods for the older age groups.
The meeting was held with the aid of the Zoom app and it included participants from Maccabi Barkai, Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan, Hapoel Herzliya, Ironi Or Yehuda, Holon FC, Maccabi Kiryat Yam, Hapoel Deir Hana, Maccabi Deir al-Assad, Ironi B’aineh, Umm 
al-Fahm and Maccabi Amishav Patt.
The project has been overseen by Ran Elias, the Academy’s head of scouting, under the auspices of performance director, Patrick Van Leeuwen.
“After several previous meetings during the season, over the coming week we will hold a three-part seminar as part of our cooperation project. We have just held our first meeting, in which Ori David outlined the Academy’s philosophy. On Monday, there will be an a second session discussing technique and on Thursday, we will examine goalkeeping. We want to continue to share our knowledge with other clubs despite the current restrictions and we want to continue to share information on players and other matters. We hope to broaden the project and hope that other clubs will join in,” Elias said.
