Maccabi GB unveil World Cup Winner Sir Bobby Charlton as special guest at the 18th Maccabiah Games:

Maccabi GB in partnership with UJIA have announced that World Cup winner and Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton will be the special guest of Team GB at this summer’s 18th Maccabiah Games in Israel.

Sir Bobby will be travelling to Israel with his wife, Lady Norma and fellow Manchester United director Mike Edelson and his wife Jacky. The Manchester Foundation Group, including four coaches will arrive in Israel on the 9th July for a four day trip arranged courtesy of Mike Edelson and Darryl Lee.

During his time in Israel, Sir Bobby will attend a number of Maccabiah events. This special visit to the Maccabiah will culminate with Sir Bobby leading Team GB into the Ramat Gan Stadium at the Opening Ceremony in front of 40,000 people before taking his seat in the Presidential box alongside the Prime Minister and President of Israel.

Sir Bobby is also in Israel as part of his involvement with the British Council’s ‘Football 4 Peace’ project. On Friday 10th July Sir Bobby and his party, which includes four Manchester United Foundation coaches, will attend a coaching session with ‘Football 4 Peace’ at the Wingate Sports Institution in Netanya. This will involve Sir Bobby joining Arab and Jewish children from the Football 4 Peace project at the Wingate Sports Institute for a special coaching session.

To read more of the article, you can go to http://www.maccabiah.com.

Hi guys,

Please see below the Masters Football groups for the 18th Maccabi Games 2009.

a.

The teams will be divided into 2 groups: The 1st team in the 17th Maccabiah will head group A. The 2nd team in the 17th Maccabiah will head group B.

b.

The teams placed 3rd and 4th in the 17th Maccabiah will be drawn for second place in the groups. All the other teams will be placed in the groups by a draw.

c.

In the event that after the draw, one or more teams will not appear and a situation arises whereby a group is short of 2 teams, the team drawn last will be moved from one group to another.

d.

The semi-final games will be played on the Cross system, the team placed first in Group A will play against the team placed second in Group B and the team placed second in Group A will play against the team placed first in Group B.

e.

The two winning teams in the Semi-Finals will play in the Final game for 1st and 2nd places, and the two losing teams in the semi-finals will play for 3rd and 4th places.

f.

The teams placed 3rd and 4th in each group will play on the same system for places 5-8.

April 2009 Training Camp:

Some photo's from our training camp in JHB during the long weekend in April.

Training Hard:

Some of the lads having a run around at out training session down in CT yesterday.

Well done to all the guys for coming down, was great having some of the JHB boys train with us.

aaaaahhh sweet, look at those happy faces!!!

18th Maccabiah NEWS:

HOT OFF THE PRESS:

The Argentine football referee, Horacio Elizondo, who gave Zinedine Zidane a red card at the 2006 World cup final in Germany, will referee this summer in Israel at the 18th Maccabiah Games.






You can read the full article on the official 18th Maccabiah Games website at (http://www.maccabiah.com/maintxt.asp?cid=30&parents=&psn=30&maincatid=30)

Raffle Tickets:

Hi guys,

I have just been informed that Raffle books are available for collection in JHB.

I will be contacting Simone on 083 394 5586 to make the necessary arrangements.

Please note that the funds collected will be credited to the sport but if for whatever reason the sport does not participate in the games these funds will not be refunded to the sport but will be utilised by Maccabi SA as subsidies.

Have a wonderful shabbas.

Match Day Team Info.

“ Each Master's team may register up to 22 players from which only 17 can be nominated to play in a particular game. The names of the 17 nominated players must be handed to
the appropriate competition official prior to the commencement of the game. All registered players on the team may sit together during games, but only the 17 nominated players may
wear the team's game uniform or soccer footwear. Substitutions in Masters and Junior/Youth games will be a “Rolling Substitutes System” using nominated players only. “

http://www.maccabiah.com/imgs/ntext/catalog/football1.5.08.pdf)

Training:

Cape Town – The guys had been training with the Camps Bay Over35’s since June, but it came to an end mid Sep. Since then they have been training every Thurs & Sun on a 4 v 4 3G pitch at Weizmann School. From Jan onwards Camps Bay will reconvene and all squad members will register for the Over 35's. We are looking to get in a Biokineticst to come down to every Sun training. We also play once a week on a Wednesday beach soccer on Clifton First beach. If any of the JHB crowd are in Cape Town, we would love to have you down for the sessions. Just give me a and I'll fill you in.

JHB – I believe there is a Balfour Park over 35 team that plays every Wed, if all the guys could please come down and join that team, that I think, will be good as I believe it is on a high level. Also from there you the JHB guys can then arrange a once-a-week training session on perhaps a Sun that Warren has kindly offered to run (thanks Warren). Thanks Dan for trying to arrange training as well.

Kit:

In terms of Kit, I have sent out info that we need for the SA TEAM DELEGATION kit, which most of you have filled out and sent back. Please could those of you who haven’t yet, do so. In terms of actual playing kits, I have been shopping around for proposals for kits from UMBRO, NIKE & ADIDAS, will report back to everyone once I have a clearer indication of what the breakdown will be. I will also be looking for a sponsor for the kit so that we will not have to pay extra, which I am confident I will find.