The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle
Match28 Aug 2027
7 matches without a win for Maccabi Petach Tikva
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Maccabi Petach Tikva are no longer polite ones.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Neoray Ozana is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Maccabi Petach Tikva
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A late step up for Adar Ratner
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at Maccabi Petach Tikva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eden Shamir 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
Maccabi Petach Tikva cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Market30 Aug 2027
One of our own: Eli Abada joins the Maccabi Petach Tikva first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eli Abada is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market30 Aug 2027
Maccabi Petach Tikva promote Ben Natcho from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ben Natcho 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Maccabi Petach Tikva promote Eli Benayoun from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eli Benayoun 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Yonatan Glazer joins the Maccabi Petach Tikva first team
- The dugout Ciro Thompson gets it from the manager
- Match Maccabi Netanya take the points off Maccabi Petach Tikva