The Hapoel Acre Gazette
Squad16 Nov 2026
Yadin Lugasi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Diaa Lababedy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hapoel Acre this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Jeffery Nisembaum
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jeffery Nisembaum, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ange Messi, 20, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Hapoel Acre would like this to lead.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
A reunion for Osama Khalaila
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Maccabi Tel Aviv in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Michael Merenstein knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Michael Merenstein trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Romi Cohen a promise
- Looking ahead Hapoel Acre host Maccabi Tel Aviv
- Squad The training reports on Michael Merenstein are not good
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Ange Messi