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Maccabi Tel Aviv started its way in 1932.
Maccabi (the basketball) team won 51 national championships and 41 state cups. It is also one of the most successful teams in Europe of all time, holding 6 Europe cups. Players like Miki Berkovich, Aulcie Perry, Tal Brody and years later Anthony Parker, Derrick Sharp, David Blue and Nikola Vujcic made the game more interesting and only because of them we have all of these cups and championships.
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Maccabi in the 70’s:
Maccabi Tel Aviv won the Europe Cup, every ten championships in Israel and 8 cups.
Maccabi Tel Aviv hosted the NBA champion “Washington Bullets” and won the game 97-98
Maccabi in 1977
In 1977, in the semi-finals, Maccabi met the Moscow-Red Army team, which until that time raised 4 times the European Cup and was considered as a superpower in terms of European basketball.
Ten years earlier, the Russians broke off contacts with Israel and supported the militarily Arab enemies. For political reasons, CSKA refused to play in Tel Aviv. The Soviets themselves refused to approve visas permitting Maccabi to play in Moscow. Finally, it was decided that home games of Maccabi will be held in the neutral town of Boirton, Belgium.
The match took place emotionally charged and raised the attention of so many Israelis, even those who have no interest in basketball, because they saw it as very symbolic. On the eve of the game, on February 17, 1977, Ma'ariv newspaper called it: "The battle between David and Goliath." Many Israel citizen were watching broadcast on Channel One, the only channel in those days.
Maccabi won in the game 91-79. Israelis felt that this was a victory over the entire Soviet Union, not just over CSKA Moscow, and for years was considered a seminal event in history and Israeli identity.
On that night, Tal Brody, the captain of the team made his famous statement: “We are on the map and we stay on the map – not only in sport, in everything”.
Maccabi today
Today Maccabi's head coach is Guy Goodes that was the assistant coach last year when David Blatt was the coach when we won the Europe cup. The "game makers" today are Jeremy Pargo, Yogev Ohayon, Brian Randle, Devin Smith and Sofoklis
Schortsanitis. Pargo, Yogev Ohayon, Brian Randle,
Devin Smith and Sofoklis Schortsanitis.
Maccabi’s main fans are part of the “Gate 11” organization, the “Gate 7 the yellow heart” and the “Maccabi ultras 96”.
Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv
By: Ido Dagan