{"id":26650,"date":"2007-05-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/spahija-im-haapy-to-play-against-a-legend-like-katash\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:20:29","slug":"spahija-im-haapy-to-play-against-a-legend-like-katash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/spahija-im-haapy-to-play-against-a-legend-like-katash\/","title":{"rendered":"Spahija: i&#8217;m haapy to play against a legend like Katash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cI\u2019d like to congratulate Oded Katash and Hapoel Galil Elyon for qualifying to the final four. No one expected that in the beginning of the season. I\u2019m happy to play again against a legend like Oded Katash\u201d, said Neven Spahija, Maccabi Tel Aviv\u2019s coach.<\/FONT><\/P> <P><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><\/FONT><br \/><\/P> <P><IMG alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabifans.co.il\/mf\/mf2\/mf\/elements\/upload\/img_2004.jpg\" align=baseline border=1><\/P> <P><BR><\/P> <P><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Maccabi will play against Hapoel Galil Elyon<BR>in the final four semi finals on Tuesday night (20:50) at Nokia arena.<BR><\/FONT><\/P> <P><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><BR><\/P><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Spahija added: \u201cAt the beginning of the season we had a new team, but we got better and some tough opponents in the euroleague made us a better team at this stage of the season. We hope to get the job done and win the championship\u201d.<\/FONT><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><BR><o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Katash answered: \u201cthanks for coach Spahija, but I\u2019m not so happy to play against Maccabi\u2026 I\u2019m very proud of my players. We had lots of ups and downs this season, and we are so excited to be here\u201d.<\/FONT><\/P> <P><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><\/FONT><br \/><\/P> <P><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><IMG alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabifans.co.il\/mf\/mf2\/mf\/elements\/upload\/img_2092.jpg\" align=baseline border=1><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><BR><\/P><o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Maccabi\u2019s captain, Derrick Sharp: \u201cI\u2019d like to congratulate the teams, coaches and owners that have qualified for the final four. Everybody except Maccabi loves this system. We prefer a playoff series but we are professionals and we\u2019ll deal with it. The atmosphere is great, its like before a Euroleague contest\u201d.<\/FONT><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><br \/><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><br \/><\/P><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> <P align=center><IMG alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabifans.co.il\/mf\/mf2\/mf\/elements\/upload\/img_2075.jpg\" align=baseline border=1><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><BR><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><BR><o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><BR><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><BR><o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv added: &#8220;i hope we get the job done, the euroleague games made us a stronger team&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-26650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491827,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26650\/revisions\/491827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26650"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=26650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}