Eli Refaelov

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Hapoel Kiryat Shmona U20
19 Feb 2031
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Eli Refaelov

159 Edition

The Hapoel Kiryat Shmona Chronicle

13 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Alon Turgeman out for 22 days

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

Transfer targets

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona rebuffed over Shareef Kayouf

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hapoel Beer Sheva have kept their man, and Hapoel Kiryat Shmona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Beitar Jerusalem watching Denis Kulikov

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Hapoel Kiryat Shmona have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hapoel Kiryat Shmona

Issouf Sissokho and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Park Ju-young is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

The dugout

No hiding place for Issouf Sissokho

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Issouf Sissokho, and the manager let it.

Market

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona promote Eli Refaelov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eli Refaelov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona promote Dor Melikson from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dor Melikson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Tal Glazer joins the Hapoel Kiryat Shmona first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tal Glazer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief