Eitan Glazer

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Maccabi Haifa U18
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Marked for Eitan Glazer

67 Edition

The Maccabi Haifa Herald

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wins at Maccabi Haifa

20 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match

Maccabi Haifa cannot stop winning

8 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Eitan Glazer breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Gilbert Bandama, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.17

A mark of 8.17 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Manuel Benson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Silva Kani is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Maccabi Haifa is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Jelle Bataille 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 Maccabi Haifa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Maccabi Haifa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cédric Don 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

Gilbert Bandama the difference as Maccabi Haifa beat Beitar Jerusalem

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Gilbert Bandama. 1‑0 against Beitar Jerusalem, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

Back issues
66 Edition

The Maccabi Haifa Herald

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play Maccabi Haifa right now

7 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

A fracture rules Eitan Glazer out for 28 days

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

Market

Bruninho wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at Maccabi Haifa

Jelle Bataille 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

Another one collected away from home

4 on the bounce on the road for Maccabi Haifa. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Squad

Cédric Don 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Manuel Benson

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Cédric Don sends Maccabi Haifa past Hapoel Haifa

It finished 1‑0, and it was Cédric Don’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Maccabi Haifa.

Player ratings

Cédric Don was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.21. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

65 Edition

The Maccabi Haifa Herald

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Maccabi Haifa tear Bnei Yehuda apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Bnei Yehuda, and it could have been more.

Squad

A fracture rules Eitan Glazer out for 35 days

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

Match

Maccabi Haifa make it 6 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Maccabi Haifa have 6 straight wins of it.

Player ratings

Gilbert Bandama, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.19

A mark of 8.19 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Guy Melamed yet — 8.10

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.10 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Jelle Bataille 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 Maccabi Haifa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Maccabi Haifa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cédric Don 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Cédric Don

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Maccabi Haifa. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

In brief