The Hapoel Haifa Chronicle
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Alon Turgeman says Hapoel Haifa went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
3 academy graduates step up at Hapoel Haifa
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Market30 Aug 2027
One of our own: Nir Refaelov joins the Hapoel Haifa first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nir Refaelov 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
Hapoel Haifa promote Dor Shechter from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dor Shechter 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
Manor Melikson steps up from the Hapoel Haifa academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Manor Melikson 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.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
One of those days for Dan Biton
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Roei Zikri 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 Hapoel Haifa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
A promise the Hapoel Haifa board did not keep
There was a commitment, there was a date, and the date went past. Trust at a football club takes years to build and one afternoon to spend.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Hapoel Haifa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tamir Arbel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Match Hapoel Haifa and Bnei Sakhnin take a point apiece
- Player ratings Régis N'do was unplayable
- The dugout The view from the dugout