The Hapoel Acre Gazette
Boardroom27 Aug 2035
Hapoel Acre part company with Interim Coach
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Boardroom27 Aug 2035
Hapoel Acre 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.
Market27 Aug 2035
Adi Solomon hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hapoel Acre can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom27 Aug 2035
Interim Coach takes charge at Hapoel Acre
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
The dugout27 Aug 2035
Yonatan Hemed says Hapoel Acre 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.
Market27 Aug 2035
Ori Levi is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hapoel Acre is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2035
The paperwork begins on Semir Alić
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Hapoel Acre have done the hard part with Maccabi Tel Aviv, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Tempers go at Hapoel Acre
Isa Musa 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.
Boardroom27 Aug 2035
7 academy players handed senior numbers at Hapoel Acre
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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Avi Benayoun joins the Hapoel Acre first team
- Market One of our own: Dan David joins the Hapoel Acre first team
- Player ratings Lior Natcho beats them one at a time