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Winger Tal Ben Chaim celebrated his birthday today and didn't forget to thank his captain for the gift that his teammates gave him.

Tal Ben Chaim celebrated his birthday this afternoon knowing that should Maccabi win this evening there would be a bigger celebration. The Yellow-and-Blue defeated Plzen 2:0 and advanced to the Champions League playoffs and the winger knew who to thank. 

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"This is definitely the best birthday I've had. There's no better gift than this. Everyone has already said what they think about Eran Zahavi but now I've got to tip my hat to him. He's the biggest winner that I've ever played with. He saved the day for us today. We battled very hard tonight on the pitch and his two goals did it for us. We're so happy to be in the Champions League playoffs." 

Ben Chaim commented on the confidence the players had this past week: "We really believed in ourselves and the coach said to us all week long to make sure to keep a clean sheet into the latter stages of the match. The coach's game plan worked marvelously. Every player that came here believed that we could advance and this is the best feeling in the whole world."

Of course Ben Chaim didn't forget to talk about the fans: "There were 11,000 Plzen fans here tonight but we didn't even know they were here. We only heard our supporters."