Ben Abada

Striker - Bnei Yehuda U20
18 Apr 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Ben Abada

461 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

28 May 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Franko Siegler frozen out at Bnei Yehuda

This is not rotation. Franko Siegler has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Bnei Yehuda is pretending otherwise.

Squad

A falling-out at Bnei Yehuda

André Leipold and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Itay Shechter stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Itay Shechter and Bnei Yehuda agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Bnei Yehuda

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad

A row about effort at Bnei Yehuda

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aziz Ganiev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Itay Shechter

“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

Back issues
419 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

7 Aug 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sulayman Ayuba

142 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bnei Yehuda lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Omer Levy has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bnei Yehuda they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

André Leipold 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 Bnei Yehuda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Bnei Yehuda

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad

The decline has begun for Corrie Ndaba

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 34 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Bnei Yehuda is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Aimar Sher

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

The dugout

Omri Gandelman gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Ben Abada steps up from the Bnei Yehuda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ben Abada 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.

Market

Bnei Yehuda promote Tal Glazer from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tal Glazer 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