Micha, Peretz and Tibi will face Romania this weekend while the Icelandic striker gets ready for the World Cup against Mexico and Peru. Rajikovic and Serbia will face two African opponents. Check out all the details inside
The various leagues across the world are on International break for the next week as the Nationals teams will take center stage around the globe as World Cup 2018 approaches. Three Maccabi Tel Aviv representatives will be a part of the Israeli squad while Vidar Kjartansson and Predrag Rajikovic will also join their National Teams. Here’s what waiting for the Yellow & Blue:
Israel National Team
Dor Peretz, Dor Micha and Eitan Tibi are the 3 Maccabi Tel Aviv representatives who will be joining the Blue & White for a friendly against Romania at the Netanya Stadium at 21:00 this Saturday night under Interim Head Coach Alon Hazan.
Vidar Kjartansson
The striker who hopes to be a part of the Iceland squad for the upcoming World Cup in Russia this summer, will play friendlies against Mexico and Peru during the night between Friday and Saturday as well as on Wednesday respectively. Both matches will take place in the United States.
Predrag Rajikovic
Maccabi’s second World Cup representative will face Morocco on Friday night (22:30) in a friendly that will take place in Italy and on Tuesday (21:00) they’ll take in Nigeria in London.
SC Ironi Ashdod – Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv, 11:00 Yud Alef Stadium Ashdod (U19)
The Club’s Under-19 squad heads south for an away contest on Matchday 23 of the Israel Youth Premier League. The young Yellow & Blue are in first place due to a better goal differential over Hapoel Raanana who also have a match in hand. Ashdod is in 5th place, five points off the top of the table. Last round Ashdod defeated Guy Tzarfati’s side 2:1 as the young Yellow & Blue will look to take the 3 points in the return tilt. Maccabi “Oded” Tel Aviv (U17)
The Under-17 ream will be on break for the upcoming two weeks due to International play with Israel participating in the Elite Stage of the Under-17 European Championships where there will be 6 Yellow & Blue representatives with the Blue & White. Head Coach Eliezer Ben Aharon’s Club is in first place with a 17 point lead.
Maccabi “Eli Fuchs” Tel Aviv – SC Tzav Pius Beer Sheva, Monday March 26, 11:00 Kiryat Shalom Synthetic (U16)
After last week’s win over Rishon Le’Zion, the Under-16 side will host the Beer Sheva team on Matchday 24. The young Yellow & Blue are in 4th place, 6 points off the top of the table while the visitor’s are in 13th spot with just 5 league wins.
Maccabi “Eldad” Tel Aviv – Maccabi Yavne “Tzav Pius”, Sunday March 25, 9:30 Kiryat Shalom Synthetic (U15 South)
Last Matchday the U15 squad defeated Hapoel Ashkelon 6:1 and are currently in first place. This week they’ll look to remain at the top of the league as they welcome the second to last place club who sport 3 league victories.
Maccabi “Ilan” Tel Aviv – Maccabi Barkai, 9:00 Kiryat Shalom Synthetic (U15 North)
The Under-15 team will take on Barkai on Matchday 23 of league action as the Yellow & Blue will attempt to keep their undefeated home record intact and collect the 3 points. Asaf Heber’s squad is in third place while the visitors are in last place with just 4 points.
Do you want to meet the Maccabi stars face to face? On Wednesday March 28th the Yellow & Blue Community Day will take place at Kiryat Shalom and you’ll have the opportunity to get autographs and take pictures with all of your heroes.
The event will begin at 13:15 and fans must be at the facility by 13:00. You don’t need to register and all you’ll have to do is come to the Kiryat Shalom training Facility located at 106 Derech Ben Tzvi, Tel Aviv and receive a bracelet.
IMPORTANT:
• If weather conditions don’t permit the Community Day to take place, you will be notified a few hours prior to the event and you’ll be able to participate in the Community Day the following month.
• All participants must arrive at the Kiryat Shalom Training Facility by 13:00. Should you be delayed, you may not be able to participate in the event.
• In order to ensure that all fans meet all of the players, special greeting videos may not be recorded at the Training Facility.
Entrance to the Training Facility will be granted only after a full security check.
Participants are not allowed to bring with professional photographers or videographers.
For the rules and regulations, please click on the following link.
If you haven’t visited the Official Maccabi Team Stores yet, don’t worry because it’s coming right to you. The Yellow & Blue Trailer will be taking a Road Trip next week and will meet you at various locations throughout the country. From Official Jerseys, hats and a whole slew of other terrific products, you name it and we’ve got it. Make sure to get your Passover shopping done at Maccabi!
When & where is it happening? Start marking it down:
October 22, Yerid HaHutzot Shefayim: 11:00-19:00
Sunday March 25, Maccabi Tel Aviv Football School, Hadar Yosef : 15:00-19:00
Monday March 26, Maccabi Tel Aviv Football School Lod Branch: 15:00-19:00
Tuesday March 27, Moriah Center Modiin: 14:00-22:00
Have you always dreamt of going to the World Cup! Join Maccabi Tel Aviv and World Cup 2018 Sponsor HISENSE in the Race for the World Cup! 5 days full of adrenaline will culminate with the Grand Prize:
Flight and Ticket to a 2018 World Cup match!
What do you have to do to win 1st Prize?
The most important thing you have to do is download the Official Maccabi Tel Aviv App, the most crucial tool in the Race for the World Cup in order too receive push notifications and updates by the minute.
Beginning on Sunday March 25th the Race will begin. Every single day up until and including March 28th there will be an exclusive Push Notification sent to your mobile with a hint to a certain store in the country that sells HISENSE products where we will be waiting. The first fan to find that location, shows that he has the App and answers a trivia question within 15 seconds is the daily winner.
Daily Prizes:
First Prize: HISENSE 50’ SMART TV and a ticket to the Race Finals.
Second Prize: Pair of tickets to the Hapoel Beer Sheva Home match and being hosted in the HISENSE Box.
Third Prize: Official HISENSE World Cup T-shirt.
Following the first 4 days of the contest, on Thursday March 29th the Big Final with the 4 Daily Winners will take place. The Final will be a Trivia Quiz and whoever answers the most questions correctly will win the Grand Prize:
Flight and Match Ticket to the Opening Game of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Important:
As you’ve understood, the Race prizes are certainly ones to race after. In order for there not to be any issues, once you’ve already downloaded the App make sure to turn the Push Notifications to On in order to receive the hints in a timely manner and to help you be the first person to get to the desired location. In addition, Maccabi Tel Aviv FC wants to remind all of the participants to be cautious on the roads.
Maccabi Tel Aviv continues their Championship Playoff run when they play at Maccabi Netanya on Tuesday April 3rd, 19:30 at the Netanya Stadium on Matchday 28 of the Israel Premier League Ligat Ha’Al. Tickets are on sale now, so come and cheer on the Yellow & Blue.
Please Note: This match is part of the Points Allocation System and season ticket holders will receive 2 points for this contest while non-season ticket holders will receive 1 point. Make sure that when tickets are purchased via the Leaan Website, telephone or Leaan Ticket Office the season ticket number is used in order to receive full points. Should the purchase not be done by using the season ticket number points will not be allocated.
Should a ticket be purchased and the fan doesn’t attend the match, there will be no refunds and no points will be allocated.
Maccabi fans will be seated in the Upper East Side Sections 607-609 and the Lower East Side Sections 507-509.
Tickets are on sale via the Leaan Ticket Office located at 101 Dizengoff Street Tel Aviv, telephone *8780 and the Leaan Website.
* Proper identification must be presented in order to purchase a Child/Youth/Soldier/Woman ticket
Ticket Collection
Tickets may be collected at the Leaan Ticket Office located at 101 Dizengoff Street between Sunday-Thursday 09:00-19:00, Friday 09:00-13:30 and on Matchday until 12:00.
Tickets may be collected on Matchday at the Stadium ticket windows beginning 2 hours prior to the match.
Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv 1:1 Maccabi Haifa
The Under-19 club returned from the break with a matchup against the Carmel Greens. The young Yellow & Blue played a good first half and had many chances to score, but only went into halftime with a 1:0 lead thanks to Prince Thomas. The second half saw Haifa find the equalizer via a penalty. Guy Tzarfati’s team is in first place thanks to a better goal differential over Raanana. For the full Match Report Click Here.
שערי השבת במחלקת הנוער 17.3.18
Maccabi “Oded” Tel Aviv 2:1 Bnei Sakhnin
The Under-17 side remained undefeated with a home win over Bnei Sakhnin. The Yellow & Blue scored a goal in each half while the visitors cut the lead with 20 minutes left in the contest despite a red card to Rave Assayag. The victory increased the U17’s lead a top the table to 17 points thanks to goal scorers Rave Assayag and Omri Ram. Head Coach Eliezer Ben Anton summed up the win: “We pretty much controlled the pace of play over the whole match. Over the last few minutes we were lucky not to give up a tying goal. Sakhnin played with ten men on the 16 meter line which makes it very difficult to play a fast paced game. I think in these types of cases, patience is very important and today we weren’t patient enough. I’m happy with the win and that we increased our lead at the top of the table, but it’s hard to keep the intensity of the players at the highest levels when there is such a big gap and this is where we get into the mental side of the game. We have to create more goals for the season such as remaining undefeated until the end of the campaign and to continue to increase our first place lead. These are goals that we want to achieve over the matches we have until the end of the season. I want to also wish good luck to the U17 National Team that will be playing in the Elite stage especially to our players that will be heading out for the competition over the next 10 days. We return to action on April 4th with a big game against Maccabi Haifa with the mission to record another win.”
Hapoel Rishon Le’Zion 1:4 Maccabi “Eli Fuchs” Tel Aviv
After last Matchday’s big win where the side scored 11 goals, the Under-16 team continued with their fine play. The young Yellow & Blue took care of Rishon away which helped them move into 4th place, just 6 points off the top of the table. Tal Turgeman, Nehorai Bitton x2 and Yonatan Imberg all scored. Head Coach Raymond Atteveld looked back at the win: “We played a good match and we led by two goals but instead of pressing on the gas and getting a third to finish the game off, we gave up a goal which allowed Rishon to feel that they could get back into the contest. We made a number of substitutions and that helped get us back into the game. We controlled the pace of play for the most part, but we didn’t convert enough of our chances. Despite that, we are the team that leads the league in scoring and I hope we can continue that way, take advantage of more of our opportunities and not put it into our heads that we are scoring a lot of goals. We have to be serious and score when we have the chance to. One thing that we learned last week was how to really continuously pressure our opponent on the pitch. This was a good result against one of our rivals, I’m happy about that.”
Maccabi “Eldad” Tel Aviv 7:0 Ironi Kiryat Gat
After their important win over Maccabi Haifa last week in State Cup action, the Under-15 South team again put up a quality performance on Matchday 22 against Ironi Kiryat Gat. The young Yellow & Blue are in 2nd place just one point off the top of the table. Goal scorers included Ener Oshmandi and Liel Shota with braces, Elad Kaplan, Ohad Mizrachi and Rotem Grama. Head Coach Ori David discussed the win: “We played versus a side that wanted to defend but an easy goal opened up the game and turned the contest into an easy victory. The players did their jobs and I’m proud of that.”
Maccabi “Max” Haifa 4:0 Maccabi “Ilan” Tel Aviv
After moving onto the semifinal round of the State Cup, the Under-15 North squad we’re stopped cold by the Carmel Greens. The young Yellow & Blue are in 3rd place, 8 points out of first place. Head Coach Asaf Heber summed up the defeat: “This wasn’t one of our better matches. We were still in the game after the first half but we didn’t show up in the second half. We allowed Haifa to control the play, we didn’t press in the midfield, we were naive in our defensive game and we gave out gifts to our opponent. This was not a good day to say the least and we have to forget about the game and continue ahead to our next home match.”
Avi Rikan, the Yellow & Blue midfielder addressed the assembled media following the 2:1 defeat to Hapoel Haifa:
Lessons to be learned:
“It’s not easy to keep up the same intensity the whole match. If we can’t attack them we wanted to control the ball and wait for the right time to go on the offensive. Even after Haifa drew even we had to make sure that we wouldn’t lose because we are all playing each other in the Championship Playoffs. We have to learn from this and hopefully we will be able to say later on that it’s good this happened now and not later.”
The desire to win:
“There’s always pressure and we understand that. Up until their goal they didn’t really cause us problems and the match was under our control. We had to know how to keep the result as is when it was even. We wanted to win the match and we felt really good in the first half but when you can’t convert your chances then we ended up giving up a goal, but we shouldn’t have lost.”
Intensity and pressure:
“As the minutes went by we felt the intensity and pressure from the game and we had to control that and at worst case control the ball and wait for the right time to attack. They waited from behind and then took advantage of the situation.”
Owner Mitch Goldhar in attendance:
“Of course we wanted to win especially as he was in attendance and it’s always great to see him. It’s unfortunate that we didn’t win. He follows us the whole season and watches every match and we have to make sure we win our next matches.”
About keeper Predrag Rajikovic:
“Rajiko’s had many great matches this season and we can’t forget that. I don’t know what happened but Rajiko is a very emotional person who always wants to win and we feel that every day. He’s a great keeper and he will reach the highest levels. I’m sure he will earn points for us during the playoffs.”
Plenty of points left:
“You have no idea of how hurt we all are and we really want to succeed. We see how the fans all came to support us as they have done match after match, more and more and it’s been great for us. Unfortunately the exact opposite occurred today and it’s very painful for the players, we feel terrible. No one likes to lose. We all support one another and while we succeed together we have to also know how to collect ourselves after a loss. At the end of the day it’s not the end of the world. We had an issue here and of course we didn’t want to lose. When you don’t win, another team at the top takes the points, but the playoffs are long and there are plenty of points left.”
Maccabi Tel Aviv began the Championship Playoffs with a home defeat to Hapoel Haifa. The club’s defender, Eli Dasa who also scored the Yellow & Blue’s lone goal spoke about the contest:
“The match can be split into two halves. The first half we had many chances and the second half was not as good. Sometimes a one goal lead is just not good enough. That’s not how we wanted to begin the playoffs but that’s what it is. There are another 27 points left in the bank and we will have to fight for everything.”
More about the club’s current situation:
“This sums up our season as we like to put ourselves into trouble and then come back. We’re still in the race and we will do everything we can to move forward. There’s not much to say, we have to improve the things that need work.”
About the other title contenders:
“We took it into account and it’s hard for me to believe that one single club will win all of their matches. Other teams will certainly have some issues along the way and I hope that we won’t be one of them. We have to do what we need to.”
His own play:
“If the team didn’t win, then I didn’t do anything. I won’t even remember that I scored a goal if we lose. I hope that we will be able to convert the upcoming contests into victories.”
The Championship battle:
“Sometimes it’s better to keep quiet and do what we need to.”
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