On Saturday, Maccabi Tel Aviv will take a trip to Jerusalem for a Matchday 31 Ligat Championship Playoff Match. Today, following their training session, the club visited their leading sponsor, HP Indigo at their Kiryat Gat factory. During the tour, the players and professional staff learnt about the latest technological tools that make HP the worldwide leader in the field of digital print.
The tour included a look at all of the various departments along with the different technologies that the company uses to that helps produce the highest quality pictures, posters and the gigantic player posters that can be seen at the stadium throughout the season. The players who were astounded by the operation, were given posters of themselves in various shapes and sizes.
Captain Sheran Yeini summed up the visit to the HP Indigo factory following the visit:
“In the name of all of the players, I want to offer HP a tremendous amount of thanks and gratitude for hosting us here today. We learnt a lot and it was fabulous. This is a world unto itself and all of the players can’t wait to take advantage of all of the sponsor’s great products that are of the highest quality.”
About the upcoming matches against Beitar Jerusalem, Bnei Sakhnin and Hapoel Beer Sheva:
“We have a difficult and important week coming up and we are ready for it.”
Beitar Jerusalem:
“Beitar is always a quality side and one that is not easy to play against for Beer Sheva and ourselves. We aren’t thinking that this will be an easy match. Just as we said before the State Cup game that they are an opponent that has taken many points from Maccabi Tel Aviv, we are aware of that and we know what we have to do to win.”
On the club’s performance over the past few matches:
“I’m happy as to how we have performed along with winning the games themselves. But right now collecting points is what is most important and no one can criticize us for not earning points. Perhaps after the State Cup Semifinal some of the pressure was off of us, but we are working hard to continue to improve ourselves and to do even more things right on the pitch that we need to improve.”
Mental preparation for the next three games:
“We are really not concentrating on the championship race and are only looking at the next game. I know it sounds like a cliche, but it’s the truth as to how we are preparing ourselves and this is how we have to do it. We are professionals. About having a bunch of matches over the next week, for us it’s a lot of fun and personally, I wish every week was like this. We aren’t thinking about losing any points or about the games that are further along, we are just concentrating on the next match.”
Facing Beitar:
“Beitar have some very dangerous players and we are very aware as to what they can do on the attack. They have some players that we have to focus on all of the time and we have to keep finding ways to stop them. This is a contest that we have to be very, very focused.”
