The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle
Boardroom30 Aug 2032
Interim Coach is out at Maccabi Petach Tikva
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Boardroom30 Aug 2032
Maccabi Petach Tikva have nobody left to take training
Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.
Match28 Aug 2032
8 matches without a win for Maccabi Petach Tikva
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Maccabi Petach Tikva are no longer polite ones.
The dugout30 Aug 2032
Yehonatan Segev keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Maccabi Petach Tikva may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom30 Aug 2032
Interim Coach steps up at Maccabi Petach Tikva for now
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
Market30 Aug 2032
James McAvoy asks to leave Maccabi Petach Tikva
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad30 Aug 2032
Tempers go at Maccabi Petach Tikva
Maor Erlich 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.
Boardroom30 Aug 2032
Graduation day at Maccabi Petach Tikva
8 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad30 Aug 2032
Lucas Ventura 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.
In brief
- Match Adar Ratner’s goal not enough for Maccabi Petach Tikva
- Market Maccabi Petach Tikva promote Nir Weissman from within
- Market Ofir Revivo steps up from the Maccabi Petach Tikva academy