Ignacio Nicolini

Defensive Midfielder - Maccabi Netanya
13 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ignacio Nicolini

13 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Age has not caught Dor Micha yet — 8.62

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.62 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Eden Shamir 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 Maccabi Netanya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Dor Micha’s goal not enough for Maccabi Netanya

Dor Micha scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Hapoel Tel Aviv, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Words at Maccabi Netanya training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Li On Mizrahi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Karem Jaber 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Matheus Davó

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Maccabi Netanya pick somebody else ahead of Ignacio Nicolini

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Player ratings

An afternoon Basam Za'arura will want back

Marked 5.46. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Karem Jaber

A mark of 5.65 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Age has not caught Dor Micha yet — 8.87

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.87 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Gontié Junior Diomandé is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Maccabi Netanya

Luke Brattan 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.

Player ratings

Matheus Davó runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Ignacio Nicolini wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Maccabi Netanya know it.

Match

Maccabi Netanya find a way past Bnei Yehuda

Bnei Yehuda made Maccabi Netanya work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief