16.09.2002,
This week we started the league at last and it was nice. We find Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv in the first 3 positions, nothing have changed. 3 1-1 draws and win for all the big 3 teams again. 22 goals were scored, 6 in Blomfield when Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Maccabi Petach Tikva. Only 6 were scored by foreigns, Rozen from Hapoel Petach Tikva scored twice just like Maccabi Haifa's Rosu. Only Hapoel Kfar Saba didn’t score. 2 red cards already were taken out (Tal Ben Haim from Maccabi Tel Aviv and Roni Gafni from BNYI Yehouda). 37.5 thousand fans watched all 6 games, 8 thousand in Blomfield and the same amount at Kiriat Eliezer in Maccabi Haifa's match.

Best 11^th of day 1: Yaniv Ben Ishay(MS Ashdod); Edi Elkayam(Irony Rishon Lezion), Geman(Maccabi Natanya), Arik Ajipor(Maccabi Haifa), Shoki Nagar(Hapoel Beer Sheva); Yossi Rozen(Hapoel Petach Tikva), Berno Reyes(Maccabi Tel Aviv), Reuven Oved(Maccabi Tel Aviv), Giovani Rosu(Maccabi Haifa), Yaniv Katan(Maccabi Haifa); Kfir Tzokol (Maccabi Natanya).
The 12^th: Asi Baldot(BNYI Yehouda)

The goal: Pini Balil from Hapoel Tel Aviv made it 2-0 against Hapoel Petach Tikva.
Worse 11^th: take all the 11^th of Hapoel Kfar Saba.

first day for Michael Zandberg in Maccabi Haifa

Yada yada yada(some jukes I made on day 1)
Avi Nimni(Maccabi Tel Aviv): "I never said I'm greed but I only won't to impoverish Maccabi Tel Aviv. They owe me that" (Nimni after he didn’t play due to his contract didn’t confirmed).
Alon Mizrahi(Hapoel Kfar Saba): "We have great team because I am in it, so what if we lost 5-0 the important thing is that no one passed me the ball, with me scoring we could have won" (Alon Mizrahi after his team lost 5-0 to Maccabi Haifa).
Hapoel Petach Tikva's fans(after the loss): "we need to eat after the game, lets do "mangal"(meat on fire), but where?"(Two hours after the game we hard that Hapoel Petach Tikva's offices were burned)
Eli Ohana(BNYI Yehouda's coach): "Ran Ben Shimon is the best defender in Israel because of his quickness" 35 minutes in the game we saw how everyone could pass him without any problems.
Anji Kobika(Bietar Jerusalem's striker): "They are only kids let them be happy I can score in Japan but here I have mercy on Natanya" (Kobika after he missed a lot of opportunities).
Lopa Kadosh(Hapoel Beer Sheva's coach): "We got a draw because I don’t know any of Rishon players. They played with their youth team. If they would play with there oldest team we would have won"(Kadosh after his team draw against Irony Rishon Lezion despite Rishon playing with a lot of youth players).

5 sentences about DAY 1:
1) I'm blind, 50 years back with channel 1 showing the Israeli soccer.
2) Manchester United lost 0-1, Maccabi Haifa won 5-0 it means 6-0 to haifa in Old Traford?!!?
3) Reyes came for a month to Maccabi Tel Aviv, after one game he came for all the season.
4) 81 minutes was enough for the first red card.
5) Itzhak Zohar is 31 years old and Reoven Atar is 34 years old yet they were the playmakers in Bietar Jerusalem against Natanya match.

BNYI Yehouda celebrates...

DiD u Know(funny way): Alon Mizrahi didn’t score, can it be? Ask Maccabi Haifa.

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