The Hapoel Acre Gazette
Market5 Apr 2027
Yadin Lugasi hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hapoel Acre can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Reef Amsalem: 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.” Hapoel Acre have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Levan Kutalia wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Hapoel Acre can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Hapoel Acre
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Junior Traoré was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Hapoel Acre
Emmanuel Solomon 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.
Market5 Apr 2027
Hapoel Acre promote Eli Abada from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eli Abada 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.
Market5 Apr 2027
One of our own: Ofir Abada joins the Hapoel Acre first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ofir Abada is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market5 Apr 2027
Dor Shechter steps up from the Hapoel Acre academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dor Shechter has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Yadin Lugasi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Squad A step back for Roei Shukrani at Hapoel Acre
- The dugout Michael Merenstein knocks on the manager's door
- The terraces The Ange Messi rumours reach the terraces