{"id":28200,"date":"2008-11-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/fizer-lands-in-israel-its-good-to-be-home\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:25:47","slug":"fizer-lands-in-israel-its-good-to-be-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/fizer-lands-in-israel-its-good-to-be-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Fizer Lands in Israel: \u201cIt\u2019s good to be home.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\">By Amy Samin<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\">Marcus Fizer landed in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> on Sunday evening.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><br \/> <\/SPAN>The forward, who was injured last season and was released by the team, will go through rehabilitation with Maccabi.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><br \/> <\/SPAN>\u201cIt\u2019s good to be back home.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><br \/> <\/SPAN>I\u2019m very lucky to be back, and I thank Shimon Mizrahi, David Federman and Raanan Katz,\u201d said the forward, who for awhile seemed unlikely to see the heads of the club again outside of a courtroom.<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\">\u201cI\u2019ve been through so much this year: my mother died, and my daughter was born,\u201d said Fizer.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><br \/> <\/SPAN>\u201cI\u2019m not in as good shape as I was, but it could be I didn\u2019t go through as good a rehabilitation as I could have.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><br \/> <\/SPAN>I didn\u2019t have a coach with me, and I didn\u2019t have a plan of action.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><br \/> <\/SPAN>Now I\u2019ll be working with Rafi Virshuvski (the Maccabi physiotherapist).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><br \/> <\/SPAN>I don\u2019t know when I\u2019ll be able to play again, but I\u2019ll try to get back in the game as fast as I can.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><A href=\"mailto:samintranslations@yahoo.com\">samintranslations@yahoo.com<\/A> <o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/><\/FONT><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forward landed in Israel and joined in the Maccabi Tel Aviv team practice: \u201cIt\u2019s good to be back home.  I\u2019m very lucky.  I\u2019ve been through so much this year: my mother died, and my daughter was born.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-28200","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\/28200","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=28200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494793,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28200\/revisions\/494793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28200"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=28200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}