The Maccabi Tel Aviv Youth Academy began training camp as the Under-19 team, Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv took to the pitch under new Head Coach Eliezer Ben Aharon who conducted his first session with the squad together with assistant Tzion Cohen and keeper coach Shura Uvarov. On July 27th the team will head to Bulgaria as they prepare for the 2019/20 season.
The squad is comprised of some veteran players from last year’s squad along with Under-17 players who won their league championship under the same Ben Aharon who moved up with them and spoke about the task ahead: “It’s very exciting. For 8 seasons I saw various coaches coming and going and now it’s my turn. My patience and hard work paid off and the fact that I persevered with a goal in mind, helped me become the coach of the Under-19 Maccabi Tel Aviv team. This was a long term goal that I had set for myself when I began coaching.”
Ben Aharon continued, “As the U19 coach my personal goal is to help develop and advance the clubs young generation of players; to bring them up to the level that they will be able to play for the first team during the upcoming seasons. My expectations are high and I believe in the team and the players, some of which I coached in the past. Their expectation is to win titles in style by dominating the league and cup.”
