Eitan Cohen

Left Wingback - Bnei Yehuda U18
7 Oct 2027
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Process

Marked for Eitan Cohen

32 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Eitan Cohen breaks a bone — 18 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Jonathan Agyapong: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bnei Yehuda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Olivier Mbaizo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Olivier Mbaizo and Bnei Yehuda agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
31 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Eitan Cohen breaks a bone — 25 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Joel Abeka: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bnei Yehuda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Bnei Yehuda

Anthony Cáceres was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief

30 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Eitan Cohen out for 33 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bnei Yehuda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Yuval Piven keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bnei Yehuda may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Bnei Yehuda

Eden Shamir was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Anthony Cáceres 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bnei Yehuda against Beitar Jerusalem

1‑2 to Beitar Jerusalem, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Boardroom

95% of the income goes out in wages at Bnei Yehuda

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief

29 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Eitan Cohen out for 42 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bnei Yehuda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Stav Nachmani 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 Bnei Yehuda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anthony Cáceres is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Sagi Dror’s goal not enough for Bnei Yehuda

Sagi Dror scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Hapoel Beer Sheva, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Ofek Melika gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Sagi Dror

Marked 8.48 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Johnbosco Samuel Kalu

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

The Olivier Mbaizo talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bnei Yehuda know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Player ratings

Raz Nahmias never got going

5.77 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

  • Market The window shut and Noam Gissin is still in the building
  • The terraces The press cannot get enough of Sagi Dror
28 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Eitan Cohen out for 49 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bnei Yehuda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Ofek Melika keeps Bnei Yehuda in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Anthony Cáceres yet — 8.68

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.68 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Avichay Wodaje

25 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad

Tempers go at Bnei Yehuda

Eden Shamir was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Bnei Yehuda find a way past Hapoel Haifa

Hapoel Haifa made Bnei Yehuda work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Johnbosco Samuel Kalu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Golan Beni is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Jonathan Agyapong

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 14 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief