Category: Community

Maccabi Youth Department & Tayibe children participate in joint training session

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The children in the Maccabi Tel Aviv Youth Department spend more of their time training designed to improve their skills on the pitch and during match action. Improving technique and physical presence, the Yellow-and-Blue youth department also puts a special emphasis on personal growth as people as well.

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This past Sunday, April 17th a group of children from Tayibe were hosted at Kiryat Shalom as they participated in a joint practice session with the Under-15 squad and their coach Kfir Alfonte. The children played a friendly match and afterwards mingled together and got to know each other on and off of the field of play.

A big surprise awaited the children as Haviv Ohayon, the First Team and Under-19 keeper joined the action and also assisted on a couple of goals. The Under-15 players’ parents organized a snack afterwards along with the Tayibe parents and the Maccabi Youth Department participants gave out mugs that had the following printed on them: “Maccabi Tel Aviv & Tayibe Youth for Coexistence” with the goal achieved after a fun day at Kiryat Shalom.

Maccabi & Hapoel Under-17 squads come together for Passover

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In order to get into the holiday spirit just a few days before Passover, the Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv Under-17 squads got together at a soup kitchen kitchen in southern Tel Aviv to do the mitzvah, the good deed of Kimcha D’pischa, giving charity prior to the Passover holiday. The players packaged food items and have out gifts to the residents. This Saturday the clubs will face each other on the pitch in a Derby to take place at the Kiryat Shalom Training Facility.

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Maccabi’s Under-17 side came with goalkeeping coach and educational consultant Chen Abdu who together with Eran Sassi and Maccabi “Oded” coach Ori Uzan helped the squad with this project. Uzan said: “Any type of contribution to the community is a good thing. Together the Yellow-and-Blue as well as the Red children are he for one purpose only, to do these good deeds together. The rivalry has to be on the pitch only for both the players and fans alike.”

Eran Sassi, Hapoel’s coach commented: “To do something for the poor is of the highest value as it connects sportsmanship to the society at large in doing good deeds for the community both as a football club and as an individual. I’m sure that these types of events brings together the positive spirit of sportsmanship and understanding within a rivalry and that keeps the violence and other negative aspects away.”

Youth Department helps organize food packages with Achim LaSemal

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To be part of the Maccabi Tel Aviv youth department requires one to put on many hours of training time, sacrifice and a tremendous amount of physical work. However, another area that the youth department looks at being critical is volunteering and giving back to the community.

This past Friday, the Under-15 players joined goalkeeping coach and educational consultant Chen Abdu for a special day preparing food packages for Holocaust survivors and the elderly with Achim LaSemel. The youth players worked hard in order to help as many people as possible on this special day of volunteering and giving back to the community.

Achim LaSemel paints Passover Yellow-and-Blue

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Passover is approaching and this year once again the non-profit organization “Achim LaSemel” is working to make the Passover holiday happy for everyone. Over the last three years, the flagship project of the organization was to conduct a seder dinner for those in need. This year, it was decided that instead of conducting a seder dinner, Achim LaSemel would try to reach more people in need and provide families with everything that they will need for their holiday table. Therefore, the organization started getting the masses involved in raising funds that will enable them to make food packages to be distributed before Pesach.

Maccabi Tel Aviv FC fans and others who would like to help support this project can make a donation and receive a gift from Maccabi Tel Aviv and others. Gifts include Maccabi Tel Aviv autographed shirts, pillows, scarves and hats, tickets to shows, soccer balls and basketballs that are autographed by the team and much more. This project has already raised more than 50,000 shekels!

This Friday, 15.4.16 from 8:00am, Achim LaSemel will meet outside of Hechal HaSport in Hadar Yosef , 6 Shitrit street, Tel Aviv and pack the food that will be bought from the donations that were contributed. They will then deliver the packages to those who need them. These packages are a key for a happy Passover for those in need. Joining the event will be players and coaches from soccer, basketball, volleyball and handball teams as well as players from the various youth teams, Maccabi fans and anyone else who would like to participate.

Maccabi and “Educating for Excellence” at Kiryat Shalom

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After defeating Hapoel Raanana last night at Bloomfield Stadium, the Yellow-and-Blue players arrived at Kiryat Shalom for a light training session. However, just before practice, they met with children from the local branch of “Educating for Excellence” for a unique encounter.

The Senior Team gave out backpacks from the WINNER League, took pictures with the children on the Kiryat Shalom pitch and of course signed autographs on shirts, hats, mobile phones and anything else they had with them.

“Educating for Excellence” was founded in 1999 and operates 37 programs throughout the country. More than 2,000 youth participate in the organization’s programs while 600 students receive scholarships who act as positive role models for the children. The group comes to Kiryat Shalom once every two weeks to take part in activities with the Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Youth Department.

MACCABI TEL AVIV Launches EX-PLAYERS CLUB

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Maccabi Tel Aviv kicks off its new Ex-Players Club holding activities at the match against Hapoel Ra’anana with the team of 95/96.

Maccabi Tel Aviv FC has formed an Ex-Players Club in recognition of its former players and the Club’s illustrious history. The Club and its management recognizes the importance of honoring its history and the men who played an active role in helping create it.

A committee of three former players (Zvika Rosen, Benny Tabak, and Alon Natan) was formed in order to set a criteria and manage the Ex-Players Club.

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The committee will be responsible for allocating tickets to Maccabi’s home matches for former players from a quota of tickets which the Club will dedicate specifically for that purpose. The role of the Ex-Players Club will also be to look out for the general welfare of the former players in association with the Club.

The Ex-Players Club will also have a key role in helping to collect memorabilia to assist in building the Club’s archives.

In order to kick off the Ex-Players Club, Maccabi Tel Aviv’s team of 95/96 were invited to the match against Hapoel Ra’anana including coach Dror Kashtan. Victor Moroz and Yevgeni Kashnetzev were flown in especially from their respective homes.

On April 21st, 20 Ex-Players will travel to the Sammy Ofer Stadium as guests of the Club for the State Cup Semi Finals against Bnei Sakhnin and on May 17th a group of Ex-Players will attend the Club’s annual Gala event.

CEO Martin Bain said: “Maccabi Tel Aviv has an illustrious history and the creation of an Ex-Players Club will not only honour past achievements and recognize those involved, but will also be a core part of the club’s development going forward.”

Drive Safely with the Maccabi Tel Aviv players

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Are you a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan? Do you love the extreme and can’t get enough of driving? Then make sure you read the following article very carefully because this could be just for you! The Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club invites you to take part in a special “Drive Safely” campaign in conjunction with KIA. There will be three “Drive Safely” meetings that will also include some, Carting fun on 29/3, 07/04 and 12/04 at Rishon Le’Zion Carting along with the Yellow-and-Blue stars!

Let’s get down to the nitty gritty. If you are between the ages of 16-20 (you do not need to have a drivers license), are Maccabi fans and you want to take part in this program and receive a terrific gift, then CLICK HERE to register for this great opportunity. After entering all of your details, make sure you’re ready to receive an SMS with a simple quiz on Sunday afternoon March 27th. The first 40 people who answer it correctly will win. If you’re not one of the first 40 don’t worry. That’s exactly why we have two more days that you can take part in this fantastic program.

Not only will you be driving on the same track as Gal Alberman, together with Dor Peretz and honking at Eitan Tibi, the first three winners will get an even bigger prize. So give it the gas and register now!

Youth Department staff deliver Mishloach Manot

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The Maccabi Tel Aviv Youth Department continues to give back to the community on a day to day basis but especially during the holiday of Purim. In honor of the upcoming holiday, two Youth Department staff, Chen Avdu and Lena Aharonov went out to the community and delivered Mishloach Manot.

Amongst the places and people the pair visited, included making a stop at one of the club’s most veteran fans, Avraham Avraham at the Wolfson Hospital as well as the Dani Senior Home. The two staff members gave out many Mishloach Manot for the club while enjoying the quality time with the community.

Good Deeds Day at Kiryat Shalom

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Good Deeds Day is celebrated in over 70 countries around the globe with one goal in mind, to do good deeds for others. Maccabi Tel Aviv hosted children from UNICEF, Peres Center for Peace and the Special Olympics.

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The children participated in training exercises at four different stations where youth department coaches gave them a chance to practice some of their skills and learn some new techniques. Three players including Eli Dasa, Eitan Tibi and Yuval Shpungin along with Maccabinio were also present and played with the kids, signed autographs and took plenty of pictures.

Eli Dasa spoke about the importance of Good Deeds Day that he had a chance to take part in: “I wish this would happen every day. There’s nothing like seeing happy children and giving them some attention. This is a great program where we can show them love and they in turn love us back, it’s a lot of fun.”

Youth Program with children from Gaza Periphery

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As part of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club’s joint programming with communities throughout the country, a special event was held at the Kiryat Shalom Training Facility this past Friday for children living within the Gaza Periphery.

Chen Abdu, the educational consultant for Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Youth Department spoke about the activities that took place this past weekend: “We hosted a football school from the Gaza periphery that consisted of three Kibbutzim: Ruhama, Or HaNer and Dorot. 40 children between the ages of 5-12 participated in the training session run by Maccabi’s football school where they also had a tour of the facility and received a gift from the club.”

This is the second time that this same school visited Kiryat Shalom and the encounter proved to a highlight for the children living in the south of the country. The first time the two schools met for a joint program was just before the Tzuk Eitan operation.