Hapoel Beer Sheva: This is how Yossi Aboksis saved the club...

After a particularly difficult week, Yossi Aboksis will enjoy a full staff and will be able to stand tonight (Thursday starting at 7:50 p.m., Sports3) On the lines at the Colony Stadium opposite the powerful Slavia Prague. When Hapoel Beer Sheva players are asked what the main motif that has accompanied Aboksis since he stepped into Barak Bachar’s big shoes, the mantra is repeated again and again: the cleanliness of Hapoel Beer Sheva’s locker room. Aboksis is no longer a surviving coach in his players, but brings them closer to him. So how, we ask, did the coach manage to clean up his locker room, and from what exactly – of those who brought this club a magical championship, that led the team to fine achievements in Europe?

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Then we hear the stories. And as we dive in, into the team’s locker room, we discover more and more stories that have not been told to this day and ask the questions that follow – how is it that no one at Hapoel Beer Sheva has talked about them to date, how was the way to clean the locker room and what caused them? For Yossi Aboksis to understand – here you have to cut the meat and with that you have to move forward.

Abacus VS Bittons

He does not like faces, abacus, the actors tell us. This story will sound almost delusional to you and as we dug into it, we realized that it is almost inconceivable to understand. Why the two Bitons, Oren and Ben, were wiped out by the hand of someone who is considered here as one of the successful coaches, who took two trophy titles. After all, the two Bittons, today at Maccabi Tel Aviv, which advocates a sterile and scorpion-free locker room, and Betar Jerusalem, which received Bitton during the Roni Levy era, mainly due to its conduct, are considered good children in Be’er Sheva.

“Yossi threw players he did not want to be here. Today it is possible to talk about it openly. Ben Bitton was never a candidate to stay, not even for a single moment. He knew he had no way so he looked for another group. Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Tel Aviv – no matter where he would go. But he would not continue in Be’er Sheva. Neither he nor Oren Bitton. Whoever thought that Oren was the one who initiated the departure and begged him to stay, is wrong. Be’er Sheva built a cadre of two left-backs, Goldberg and Twito, long before Sasson knew he was staying, “a club source tells us.

So what happened to the concrete, which annoyed Abacus so much, we ask. “The story with Oren and Ben, it happened after a game in Netanya,” a source at the club who knows the details closely told us. “Ben came in as a substitute, Oren did not play. Then, after the game, Aboksis looked at them and saw them putting their hands over their mouths as they whispered to their sons. He assumed what they were talking about. ” The next day Abacus enters the dressing room and his face frowns. “You know me, I’m an honest person, I always tell the truth inside,” he slammed the actors. “Oren and Ben, I don’t like to see things like that. Last time you did things like that. It does not respect your friends. I like to keep a dressing room cohesive. ” The two, according to the club, were in shock.

“They certainly did not talk about an opposing player, because they have no reason to hide their mouths. Aboksis made an inquiry and realized they were talking about not playing. Otherwise, he would not have addressed them at the meeting with their names, ”said a source at the club. Bottom line, abacus does not define the concretes as problematic, even far from it, but this situation has led him to the conclusion that the parties must separate. And that, the players say, paved the way for the most cohesive locker room the team has known in the last three years – a locker room that knew how to separate very quickly from Zrihan and Hanan Maman. The first realized that he would not continue through the bench, the second found himself in Betar very quickly, when he realized that although he was a player of the season at Bachar, he does not fit the new coach’s method.

Knows how to deal with stars

Another point, the players say, has to do with his star, Joshua. “Abacus knows how to deal with it,” they say. When Aboksis wants, the players testify, he knows how to pardon his star in front of everyone. But occasionally, they testify, he also knows how to lower it to the ground.

After 2: 3 over Maccabi Netanya, the coach entered the locker room and pointed at him. “When you concentrate on football, you are the best player to land here in the country, but when you get out of concentration you lose it,” he told him. “Do not mess with referees and do not mess with other players.” Aboksis later explained that Joshua “gave an excellent first half and lost his head in the second.” To the player himself he said: “In the first half you concentrated and you were excellent, in the second you started messing around, so you completely lost it.”

There are plenty of credit points to Abacus also in the positive attitude he gives to the players in the locker room. We found one of them right in the first weeks of the season, when football was still being played here. The most important thing for the coach is that his players come fresh to the game. If a player feels tired, he has no problem making a run or resting that day. “He is attentive to everyone, he adapts to each player the plan that suits him at that moment,” the players holding the trophy testified.

Worth every euro

And if we have already touched on the trophy, the same lost trophy that Beer Sheva has been waiting for so long, we can talk about it – “Abacus is the best coach in the country in match-ups. Give him a cup game, a deciding game, and he will know how to reach him and how to drive the opponent crazy, “surgeons in Be’er Sheva.

Before the games in the Europa League, Aboksis often played the same broken record to the players: We will reach Europe. He conveyed it in pre-game messages, in meetings and on the grass. “I believe in everyone here, I really believe it can be done,” he told them at one of the early stages of the Europa League.

“There are a lot of Israeli coaches who scribble you in the locker room,” analyzed one of his senior players. “But not him. Coaches who tell you they believe in you, but you feel they do not believe. We really felt that things were not just being said. He really believed. It permeated everyone. “

When talking about abacus, it’s hard not to engage in comparison to Bachar. The current coach places special emphasis on tactical matters defensively. He strongly believes in Mariano Briero and his defensive abilities, uses Marwan Kabha as an outstanding back midfielder and stopper who proves himself even in the crucial stages and believes that the team of young players like Or Dadia alongside mature players in the center of defense can work in the home stage as well. When talking to players, the term tactics immediately comes up alongside the name of Abacus.

“He tries to deal only with the pitch, not with what is happening around him or what is being written about him,” explained one of his associates. “You did not hear him criticize players in times of crisis, when they did not want to cut here. He brought them to the field and made sure that while they were on the grass, they would give everything. ” After two consecutive trophies, Aboksis is worth a lot of money to Be’er Sheva. More precisely, 190 thousand euros for each point in the houses stage. After a statement about a financial season and a thin stomach, the coach led Be’er Sheva to a safe haven, also financially. The 300,000 euros he received as a grant are worth a point and a half in homes. If you ask him, he expects much more. Also tonight, against the Czech champion.