Category: Youth Teams

Yellow-and-Blue Saturday – Match Results October 31

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Hapoel “Robbie” Haifa 2:0 Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv

The Under-19 team lost its second game in a row in the Winner Youth League falling to Hapoel Haifa away 2:0. Maccabi “Shachar” couldn’t find a way to get back on the winning track as they gave up an early goal in the 17th minute to Saar Fadida. Coach Ziv Arie was forced to play a make shift lineup due to many players having been called up to play for the first team in the Toto Cup match against Bnei Yehuda this past Wednesday evening. The young Yellow-and-Blue substituted in Or Dasa, Amit Shapira and Mahmoud Alawesat but were unable to find the equalizer giving up a 90th minute goal to Holy Abdala who put the ball past ‘keeper Haviv Ohayon.

On Wednesday Maccabi “Shachar” will face Porto on Matchday Four of the Champions League Youth League at Bloomfield Stadium, 14:00. Admission is free of charge.

Maccabi “Oded” Tel Aviv 2:1 Bnei Sakhnin

Leon Asraf and Ori Uzan’s side didn’t miss a beat after coming back from the international break. Maccabi “Oded” picked up their sixth victory in a row in the Under-17 league as Deslin Belachio and Eden Kartzav scored for the young Yellow-and-Blue. The club will have another break this coming week and will then visit Hapoel Beer Sheva.

Maccabi “Eli Fuchs” Tel Aviv – Week off

Maccabi “Eldad” Tel Aviv 5:1 Hapoel “Danny” Jerusalem

Gil Ben Shalosh, Osher Davida, Koren Gadge, Yuval Ben Ami and Bar Cohen all scored for Maccabi against Hapoel Jerusalem at Kiryat Shalom and will remain in first place for yet another week in the Under-15 league. The side will now be off for the next two weeks and will return to action away against Hapoel Beer Sheva.

Maccabi “Team 2” Tel Aviv 5:0 Hapoel Raanana

The Yellow-and-Blue Under-15 second team also won this week right before they head to a break. Omer Itzhak, Roie Zahavi, Guy Mizrahi and Yonatan Izen all scored for the club to go along with a Raanana own goal. In two weeks Maccabi will face FC Nesher.

Maccabi Shachar comes up short 2-0

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The Under-19 team lost its second game in a row in the Winner Youth League falling to Hapoel Haifa away 2:0. Maccabi “Shachar” couldn’t find a way to get back on the winning track as they gave up an early goal in the 17th minute to Saar Fadida.

Coach Ziv Arie was forced to play a make shift lineup due to many players having been called up to play for the first team in the Toto Cup match against Bnei Yehuda this past Wednesday evening. The young Yellow-and-Blue substituted in Or Dasa, Amit Shapira and Mahmoud Alawesat but were unable to find the equalizer giving up a 90th minute goal to Holy Abdala who put the ball past ‘keeper Haviv Ohayon.

Tomorrow, the club will begin preparations for Wednesday when they’ll meet Porto on Matchday Four of the Champions League Youth League. When the teams met two weeks ago Maccabi “Shachar” played well but lost in Portugal 2:0. The location and time of the match will be available in the coming days.

Youth Department Saturday Action – October 31

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Hapoel “Robbie” Haifa – Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv, 11:00, Kiryat Chaim

After a busy week which saw Maccabi “Shachar” face Maccabi Haifa and also have many players called up to the first team for the Toto Cup match against Bnei Yehuda, the young Yellow-and-Blue will look to get back on the wining track against Hapoel Haifa in Kiryat Chaim. Just before Ziv Arie’s fourth place side plays Porto on Wednesday in the Champions League Youth League they’ll look to pick up a win in the Ligat “Winner” Youth League.

Maccabi “Oded” Tel Aviv – Bnei Sakhnin 12:30, Kiryat Shalom Training Facility

After the international break, the Under-17 league returns to action and along with it Maccabi “Oded”. Leon Asraf and Ori Uzan’s club is in first place with a match in hand and on Saturday they’ll host Bnei Sakhnin at Kiryat Shalom and attempt to increase their lead.

Maccabi “Eli Fuchs” Tel Aviv – Week off

Maccabi “Eldad” Tel Aviv – Hapoel “Danny” Jerusalem, 10:30, Kiryat Shalom

Already on a three match win streak to begin their season, Maccabi “Eldad” will look to keep their run of victories intact and remain in first place as they face Hapoel Jerusalem at home.

Maccabi “Team 2” Tel Aviv – Hapoel Raanana, 08:30, Kiryat Shalom Training Facility

Another home match will take place at Kiryat Shalom as Maccabi “Team 2” will host Hapoel Raanana.

Yellow-and-Blue Saturday – Match Results

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Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv 2:3 Maccabi Haifa “Shmuel”

Even though Ziv Arie’s side took the lead twice on goals by Dan Glazer and Gabi Kanichowsky, Maccabi “Shachar” came up short in the Israeli “Classico” falling to Haifa 3:2. Mohamd Awad scored twice and Idan Yogev scored an own goal for the Greens.

Maccabi “Oded” Tel Aviv – International Break

Maccabi “Eli Fuchs” Tel Aviv – The match against Maccabi Haifa has been postponed to a later date.

Hapoel Ramat Gan 1:6 Maccabi “Eldad” Tel Aviv

A hat trick by Gil Ben Shalosh and additional goals by Osher Davida, Shay Shmuel and Tashgar Dego helped Maccabi “Eldad” win and take the club to the top of the Under-15 table on goal differential.

Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon 0:6 Maccabi “Team 2” Tel Aviv

Just like their sister side, a hat trick by Eden Silem and goals by Amit Yakov, Omer Itzhak and Yonatan Izen gave Maccabi a comfortable win over Ramat HaSharon as the club now finds them selves in second place.

Israel Under-17’s advance- Six Maccabi players in Squad

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It’s become routine for Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Youth Department to send players off to the various. Israel National Teams and today was no exception as Ofer Fabian’s Under-17 club advanced to the Elite Round of the European Championship with the help of a number of Yellow-and-Blue players.

The Elite Round will consist of eight National Teams which will be drawn on December 3, 2015 with the actual round being played in March 2016. In today’s victory four Maccabi youth players were in the starting lineup including Eylon Almog, Eden Karzev, Noam Cohen and Yarin Sharabi while Chen Ozeri and Yarden Shua were on the bench. Our own Yellow-and-Blue representative Eylon Almog who plays for Maccabi’s Under-19 squad scored Israel’s first goal in the 12th minute and helped set the tone for the Under-17 Israel National Team to advance to the Eilte Round.

Maccabi Shachar loses to Maccabi Haifa 3-2

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Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv hosted Maccabi Haifa this afternoon in the Ligat “TOTO” League at Ramla Stadium and fell to the Greens 3:2 on a 77th minute goal Mohamd Awad. After a mid-week loss to Porto on Matchday Three of the Champions League Youth League,

the Yellow-and-Blue wanted to get back on the winning track against their arch rival. In the 7th minute Tel Aviv had a terrific chance when Tomer Altman stole the ball at midfield passed it to Or Dasa who broke into the box but his shot came up short by nirkeidar-44the goal post. Maccabi would take a 1:0 lead in the 24th minute when Altman’s pinpoint pass was perfectly headed into the Haifa goal by captain Dan Glazer. Just 8 minutes later the the hosts almost doubled their lead on a a Dasa header but this time Haifa ‘keeper Roee Fucs was able to knock the ball away to safety.

Though Maccabi was controlling the flow of the match, Haifa would tie the game up after a mistake by Dasa in the 38th minute. The midfielder sent a pass backwards that was picked off by Mohamd Awad who evened the score at 1:1 forcing coach Ziv Arie to immediately substitute Dasa off in favor of Mahmoud Alawesat.

The second half started with Maccabi making their second substitutionnirkeidar-31 of the match as Shay Golan was introduced in place of Omri Haramati. The Yellow-and-Blue would then take the lead again 2:1 as Gabi Kanichowsky would score from an assist by Alawesat. However, the lead would be short-lived as Idan Yogev’s own goal
would draw the two sides even once again. Arie would then bring in Lazar Durovic, Ran Vaturi and Dor Galili, but Awad would score his second goal of the match in the Yellow-and-Blue box and beat ‘keeper Sahar Ohayon as Maccabi would go down to defeat 3:2.

Yogev: “This is a huge game”

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Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv, the youth department’s Under-19 club is currently participating in a historic season as they are the first ever Israeli team to play in the Champions League Youth League. The young Yellow-and-Blue have played in the first round of European matches, taken flights to both Chelsea in London and Porto plus have competed in the domestic league.

On Saturday, Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv will face Maccabi Haifa “Shmuel” in the Ligat “TOTO” League in one of the great Israeli matches that takes place every season. Ziv Arie’s team landed back in Israel on Wednesday night and the following AQ7A0086day were already preparing for this important home encounter that will take place at the Ramla Municipal Stadium at 12:00. Right before the team had their final training session prior to the match, the club’s central defender Idan Yogev talks about the first round of Champions League games, how the team has improved over the past few months and of course about the upcoming “Classico”:

“We feel that we’ve improved since our first Champions League game,” Yogev said. “Slowly but surely we’re learning about the physical aspects of the European clubs. After three games I can say that we are good enough to battle for one of the group’s playoff spots. Other than the match against Chelsea which is a team that is on a totally different level, we were able to play toe to toe with both Kiev and Porto who are at the same level as we are, except for their offense which is a bit more polished than ours.”

On Saturday’s Classico match:

“I think that Maccabi and Haifa are the clubs who battle year in and year out for the Youth Championship. Last year we took the title and the year before they did. I hope that this year we will win again. We will come into the match sharp and focused in order to take the three points.”

About the start of the domestic league season:

“At the end of the day the team that earns the most points from the beginning of the AQ7A9160year will win the league. Maccabi Haifa is a tough opponent and it won’t be easy against them, but we have to come into the match with confidence. We’re a team that plays in the Champions League and I hope we will show that on the pitch.”

What roles the veteran players have to take in the match:

“The whole team knows that this is a huge game and that we have to win. Myself along with Dan Glazer and Maxim Grechkin give the club quiet and confidence, we don’t go after the other players or pressure them and they know that we are here for them and not just for the match against Haifa.”

On home field advantage:

“We’re hoping that Ramla will be full of Yellow-and-Blue fans. Unfortunately there are less fans that come to Ramla who came to games at Kiryat Shalom and the fans have I understand that Ramla is now our home. In my opinion Ramla is a great place to play especially for a youth team that has a great pitch and plenty of place for the supporters. It’s the Maccabi Under-19 home stadium and I hope that we will see it packed on Saturday.”

Youth Department Saturday Action – October 24

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Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv – Maccabi Haifa “Shmuel” – 12:00, Ramla Municipal Stadium

After playing commendably away at Porto in the Champions League Youth League, Maccabi’s Under-19 side returns to play in the Israel “TOTO” League “Classico” when they host Maccabi Haifa on Matchday Five of the domestic league. Ziv Arie’s club comes into the match with two straight wins in league play and finds themselves in fourth place just one point behind the Greens.

Maccabi “Oded” Tel Aviv – International Break

Maccabi “Eli Fuchs” Tel Aviv – The match against Maccabi Haifa has been postponed to a later date.

Maccabi “Eldad” Tel Aviv – Hapoel Ramat Gan – 09:00, The pitch next to the Ramat Gan Safari

After a perfect start in their first two matches, the Under-15 Central District side will play away but close to home against Hapoel Ramat Gan who are in 11th place with one point.

Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon – Maccabi “Team 2” Tel Aviv – 10:30, Ramat HaSharon Synthetic Pitch

With a win and a loss the Sharon District Under-15 team will look to defeat Ramat HaSharon who have yet to collect a point this season.

New Beginnings: Maccabi Eli Fuchs Tel Aviv visits Freiburg

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Maccabi “Eli Fuchs” Tel Aviv arrived home last night after a three day visit to the German club SC Freiburg where they had a training, educational and sports program. The joint programming between the clubs is part of the celebration of 50 years of relations between Israel and Germany and being that Tel Aviv and Freiburg are sister cities this trip continues to strengthen the bonds between them.

Eliezer Ben Aharon’s club departed for Germany on Sunday just a few hours before the First Team and Maccabi “Shachar” left for Porto. Representatives from Freiburg were waiting in the airport to help the youngsters get to their accommodations and to the visit The Black Forest which borders France and Switzerland. That same evening the players ate dinner at a castle in the city with SC Freiburg’s management and professional staff. Local college students also joined the players at the dinner and while they were able to get to know one another and they also attended the youth match two days later.  On Monday, Maccabi “Eli Fuchs” had a training session on the pitch adjacent to the Freiburg Stadium and during the day the club also took a tour of the old city and visited the brand new synagogue. The team were given an explanation of the city’s history and continued on the tour.

Tuesday the club had a tour of the youth department’s training facility and then played the match against SC Freiburg. Maccabi won 4:2 on goals by Muflach Shalata, Idan Tzioni, Yam Ben Yehuda and Jonas J’brin. In the evening the players celebrated Guy Ben Harush’s birthday as well as Lina Aharonov who was part of the staff that joined the club on the trip.

The Yellow-and-Blue players represented Maccabi and the State of Israel with passion and pride and were a shining example of how relations can continue to be built with clubs around the world and look forward to continuing this new beginning with SC Freiburg.

Arie: “After UCL we’ll be a stronger team”

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The Under-19 youth side came up short today against Porto 2:0. Maccabi “Shachar” competed valiantly with the Portuguese side at the hosts beautiful training ground just outside of the city. Head Coach Ziv Arie spoke about the match, what made the difference and looked ahead to the upcoming games.

“We’re never happy when we lose. Jordi Cruyff spoke to us and said he was happy as to how the club looked and how we played football. But we’re disappointed and rightfully so. We played against a team at a very high level with excellent players. The first half was better than the second and we controlled the ball and looked more like a team. We weren’t as good in the second half and that was the result of a poor day by some of our midfielders. We will continue on and we showed that we could stand up to this level of competition and it will be much harder for them in Israel.

On giving up an early goal:

We continued to play the same way and had two midfielders playing more defensively to close Porto up. At halftime we said that we could win the game but we didn’t want to go crazy and take a risk because they could punish us if we did. We had some chances but the match ended the way it ended.”

What Arie took from the match:

“I told the players that after December 8th when the Champions League will end we will be a much better and stronger team. After six Champions League matches we will be even more of a team. We will do a rotation with the players going forward and we are looking at the upcoming Haifa match.”

Club captain Dan Glazer spoke about how he saw the match from his point of view:

“This was a match that we played well and one that we could have drawn. At these levels it’s the small things that make the difference. We had a few chances where we could have done a bit better, but we’ll learn from this and continue on.”

How the match began:

“Every match has its differences. The training staff prepared us very well with detailed reports on the players and the team and you could see that we came into the match ready to go. Maybe because of the result they had against Chelsea we weren’t focused at the start but we snapped out of that very quickly by controlling the tempo and we had a number of quality chances. Around the box we weren’t able to get as many good chances as we would have liked.”

On the difference between the Champions League and the Domestic competition:

“In this tournament we are playing against top level central defenders that are out of our league. They are big, fast and physical. Our offensive players are very young and we had a few chances. Against Nes Tziona we had ten opportunities on their goal and we didn’t take advantage of them.”

What came out of the match:

“We will take the actual game play but not the result, we’l take what we learned and use it to take advantage of our opportunities in the next match”