The report of the defeated players (5-4) to Debrecen from Italy has arrived on the media of Tel Aviv. The defender Eli Dasa: “They tried to cause us, is part of football and we went on”
Israel-Italia ended up on field 4-5. Out of the field you still play. The defeat in fact accused the blues of provocations at the end of the daring meeting yesterday valid for the qualifications at the 2026 World Cup. “We were insulted and made around, even during the game”, is the denunciation of some Ran Ben Shimon players according to Tel Aviv’s media. However, the Football Federation denies that there has been a need for any kind of apologies in the locker room, as supported by the same Israeli media: the tension at the end of the race, with the goal -vittoria of tonals in the 91 ‘, was explicit and taken up by the TV, then in the locker room Gattuso – who in the field at the end of the race had shouted “close that c … of mouth” to an Israeli player – he tightened his hand at the opponent Congratulations.
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Defender Eli Dasa, cited by the Israeli broadcaster Channel 12he explained: “A discussion was born, they were very, very emotional. They felt they were not in the game while we deserved the victory and tried a little to cause ourselves. It is part of football and we went on”. According to other voices by the Israeli locker room, the blue captain Gianluigi Donnarumma would have tied up some of their players. “They insulted us all over the game,” they said. According to the issuer, the goalkeeper has targeted Tai Baribo and Sagiv Yehezkel. Some members of the Italian delegation reports again Channel 12“they apologized in the end with the staff of the Israeli national team for the behavior of some players”.
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Certainly, the approach to the game brought with it many controversies, on the wave of the international crisis for Gaza. Different requests not to play the game, or a symbolic gesture. Israel has chosen to bring to Hungary – where his national team played from 7 October two years ago – Thirty surviving guys from the Golan massacre on a football field, and his fans have exposed a giant photo with the collage of the hostages of the Hamas massacre. The Italian ultrà responded by turning their backs to the Israeli hymn, as already a year ago in Udine (for that gesture no UEFA fine to the FIGC), and then exposed posters with the word “stop”: without political references, which UEFA prohibits. In the stands, an invisible thread held the two delegations away. The climate that preceded the game loaded 90 ‘on the field of further tensions, the result did the rest at the end of the race.
La Gazzetta dello Sport
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