Maccabi Jaffa Fires Coach Itzik Baruch at Record Early Hour
Translated & summarized from Sport5 by baba
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- Maccabi Jaffa fired coach Itzik Baruch at 6:48 AM.
- The team has won only one of seven games this season.
- Baruch is the third coach fired in the National League this season.
- Maccabi Jaffa is second to last in the league standings.
- Baruch is a club legend who led the team to promotion.
Maccabi Jaffa has fired head coach Itzik Baruch after a dismal start to the National League season, collecting only three points from seven matches. The dismissal came at an unprecedentedly early hour, with Baruch receiving the news at 6:48 AM on Wednesday, making it the earliest firing in the league's history.
Baruch's dismissal follows a 3-1 loss to Hapoel Kfar Shalem in the previous round. He is the third coach to be sacked in the National League this season, despite the league only being seven weeks old. His assistant, Dor Elou, will lead the team's final training session before their upcoming match.
Maccabi Jaffa has secured only one win this season, against Hapoel Afula, and currently sits second to last in the league standings, above Hapoel Acre. Coincidentally, Jaffa is scheduled to play Hapoel Acre on Thursday in a crucial bottom-of-the-table clash, making Baruch's firing at this juncture particularly surprising.
Club chairman Eran Cohen had previously overhauled the squad, releasing star players and reducing the budget to focus on younger talent after the team finished first in the lower playoff bracket last season. This strategy has evidently failed to yield results so far.
Baruch, 54, is considered a club legend, having managed Maccabi Jaffa in multiple stints and led them to promotion from Liga Alef to the National League in the 2021/22 season.
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