Itay Solomon

Left Midfielder - Bnei Yehuda U18
2 Oct 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Itay Solomon

67 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Itay Solomon out for 19 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bnei Yehuda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

The wait goes on for Bnei Yehuda

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A row about effort at Bnei Yehuda

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Sagi Dror

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sagi Dror, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Zahi Ahmed in the eights

A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Bnei Yehuda rescue it on 88 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 88. Maccabi Haifa had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Squad

Maurício wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Bnei Yehuda can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Ido Shahar

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Bnei Yehuda told Ido Shahar something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Market

Stav Nachmani told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Stav Nachmani has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Bnei Yehuda.

In brief

Back issues
59 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Bnei Yehuda let it slip despite Zahi Ahmed

Zahi Ahmed had done his part in building a 3-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Hapoel Kiryat Shmona were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Oren Biton yet — 8.08

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.08 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Ido Shahar rejects the move

Bnei Yehuda had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Maccabi Tel Aviv, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Wilson Harris 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.

Market

One of our own: Adi Glazer joins the Bnei Yehuda first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Adi Glazer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Bnei Yehuda promote Gil Levy from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gil Levy 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.

Market

Bnei Yehuda promote Tomer Solomon from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tomer Solomon 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.

Market

Bnei Yehuda promote Itay Solomon from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Itay Solomon 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ester Sokler

Marked 8.17 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief