When journalists receive a list of Israel's starting 11 before an official soccer match, it's hard not to be impressed by the names of the teams mentioned alongside the players - Mallorca, West Ham, Nuremberg, Brugge, Wisla Krakow, Rubin Kazan. The trouble begins when they lift their eyes from the page and look at the pitch. In Baku, for example, one could see the host handling Israel's foreign legion with...
Soccer / Euroskeptics
Coach Eli Guttman has 14 players on his squad who play or sit on the bench in Europe, yet we still get disappointed watching matches like the one in Baku.
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Moshe Boker


