Vladimir Ivic, the Yellow & Blue Head Coach will make his home debut on the sidelines at the Netanya Stadium tomorrow evening at 20:00 for the second leg of Europa League First Round qualifying and opened up by looking ahead to the challenge at hand against Ferencvaros:
“Tomorrow is one of the tough games and for me every game is a tough game. We prepare 100% to be ready to win every game. This is the second game of the season and against the same team. Our target is to win the game and make it to the next round.”
Foreigners in the squad:
“We have 6 foreigners and if we make some future moves we will let you know. We will continue to work with who we have.”
Concentrating and working hard to win:
“Our target was to win the first game. We went to Hungary to win and the game finished 1:1. We can be satisfied with the score, but we worked hard this week and we now know our opponent better and have more information. We have to concentrate from the first to last minute of the game and fight from the start to the end in order to win the game.
The Maccabi supporters:
“I know that the Maccabi fans will be the 12th man and those who will come to stadium will give 100% support to the team. They will be a positive and help the team win the game. We have another 24 hours and training today in order to get ready for this match.”
Choosing the players who will play in the match:
“I have 26 players right now and they are all working hard. I see them everyday and then I make a decision as to who will play. If they show me that they deserve to play, then they will play.”
Performances by Eliran Atar, Jair Amador and Enric Saborit last week and the signing of Chico Ofoedu:
“I don’t want to discuss any single player as my vision is to speak about the team. Our decision was to bring Ofoedu and sign him. We will wait for him to play in the upcoming matches.”
Itay Shechter’s availability for the match:
“All of the players are ready.”
Belief in winning:
“If I don’t believe this I wouldn’t have come here. I believe that we can do this and that’s why we are here. I believe in this squad and in these players. We have a long road ahead and we have to concentrate and work at 100% and then we will have success.
Thoughts about the World Cup:
“I saw that the level of football has continued to improve and has gotten better. This World Cup was more interesting than the last one and the next one will be even more interesting than this one. That is how football evolves.”
Advancing to the Europa League Group Stages:
“This is our target. We will fight to be one of the teams who will play in the group stages of the competition.”
