Maccabi U19 captain Dan Glazer, who was awarded a municipal scholarship, has donated the money to the club's Youth Division
A few months ago, the Tel Aviv municipality awarded scholarships to the city's outstanding coaches and players in all areas of sport. Arik Levy, sports director and coach at Maccabi Tel Aviv's academy in north Tel Aviv, was one of the recipients. Dan Glazer, captain of the club's Under-19s and member of Israel's Under-21 squad, was another.
For Levy, a twelve-year youth coach veteran at Bnei Yehuda before joining Maccabi nine years ago, coaching is just one of his occupations. Education is another – as form teacher and professional co-ordinator of both the physical education and the telecommunications programme at one of Tel Aviv's secondary schools. As part of his work in the physical education programme, Levi uses streaming in children with special educational needs as a means of instructing his pupils in the acceptance and inclusion of members of society who are "different" than themselves. In 2002 he was chosen as the outstanding teacher in that entire quarter of the city.
This week Maccabi's younger recipient, Dan Glazer, took the very unusual and generous step of donating his scholarship to the club's Youth Division, for the acquisition for a number of the Division's players of football boots of the "Adidas" brand, the official kit sponsor of Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club. Glazer, who just this season received the captaincy of Maccabi's Under-19s, came up through all the teams at the club's academy. This season he took his first tentative steps on the senior team and just scored his first goal last week in Maccabi Tel Aviv "Shachar" 's 6-0 victory against Hapoel Ramat Gan.
