Marko Balbol was appointed coach of Maccabi Netanya

Gidi Lipkin 01/04/2024 17:09
Marco Belbol (Reuven Schwartz)

New coach for Maccabi Netanya. After the team announced earlier today (Monday) that Guy French had left his position by mutual consent, the Diamonds wasted no time and announced that Marco Balbol would be the man to replace them on the lines. If the former coach of Maccabi Haifa manages to keep the team in the league, he will continue for another season at the club.

Gil Lev met with him when it is known that Eyal Segal gave the green light to his signing, even though in Netanya they say that the owner has not yet spoken to Balbol. Tomorrow he will conduct his debut training ahead of the cup match on Wednesday at 20:00 against Haifa – the last team he coached in Israel. The salary of Balbol in Netanya will be about 40 thousand net per month.

In December 2018, Belbul reached a second term at Maccabi Haifa and after a season and a half, on July 8, 2020, he left the team after it finished as the runner-up. He then served as Willy Rothensteiner’s assistant in the Israeli national team and after the dismissal of the Austrian, he was appointed to the position of temporary coach, but did not manage even one game.

Marco Balbol (Radad Jabara)

Confusion left the team following disagreements with the professional manager at the time, Yossi Benyon, regarding the call-up of Daniel Peretz to the senior team. In July 2020, he was appointed coach of Northeast United of the Indian Premier League and already in December of that season he left the team, when until recently he served as Abraham Grant’s assistant in Zambia.

Belbol was in a position at Maccabi Netanya in the past when he served as Eli Gutman’s assistant between the summer of 2006 and January 2007. As mentioned, Tsrafati was fired earlier today following the 3:0 home loss to Beitar Jerusalem last night which continued the bad streak and entangled the team at the bottom of the table, and now Belbol will try to keep The same in the Premier League.

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