This coming Friday, February 26th Tel Aviv will host the city’s annual Marathon in conjunction with Adidas, one of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s sponsors. On Wednesday, the Maccabi Tel Aviv players visited the special Adidas Facility that was erected at Kikar Rabin (Rabin Square) for the Marathon and participated in some activities that uses the Adidas unique running technologies while enjoying the love showered on them from the crowd onsite.
Avi Rikan, Barak Itzhaki, defender Tal Ben Haim, Predrag Rajikovic, Orlando Sa, Dor Peretz and Gal Alberman were all excited to be at the event and Alberman spoke about Friday’s upcoming marathon: “The amount of runners just keeps increasing year to year. There will be close to 40,000 people who will be taking part in the various races and it’s 
great to see the whole community come together. It’s a huge honor for Adidas and the city of Tel Aviv.”
On the possibility of running these distances:
“I’ve never taken part in a marathon, so I’m not sure how well I would do. I’m sure it’s another type of challenge. A marathon is a monotonic while football is more dynamic, so you really can’t compare the two. We take part in athletic training sessions with the help of the “Boost Technology” which does a great job for us, so I’m sure it’s also terrific for the runners.”
The midfielder also discussed Maccabi’s current situation in league play:
“The gap is five points and we’re not afraid of the challenge. We’re also not counting on our rivals doing us any favors. There are still going to be two matches against Hapoel Beer Sheva and there are plenty of points still left. Regardless of what will be at the end of the day, it’s still way too early to come to any conclusions.”
