{"id":499169,"date":"2016-02-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/federman-were-going-to-do-our-best-to-bring-maccabi-back-to-where-we-need-to-be\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:15:44","slug":"federman-were-going-to-do-our-best-to-bring-maccabi-back-to-where-we-need-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/federman-were-going-to-do-our-best-to-bring-maccabi-back-to-where-we-need-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Federman: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to do our best to bring Maccabi back to where we need to be.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-video-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0F4wtEqMGfI\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-cfe0d7e4-c542-c262-5ba6-6c0c39859108\">By Amy Samin<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p> \t<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-cfe0d7e4-c542-c262-5ba6-6c0c39859108\">&#8220;We called this press conference not because we wanted to have a press conference, but because we wanted to have a dialogue with the media, which many times writes things that are not exactly accurate, and which sometimes in the heat of competition with other media outlets also makes things up,&#8221; said David Federman in his opening remarks. He went on: &#8220;We want to be very open and honest, and talk about our problems candidly. For this reason, I&#8217;ve asked that we hold this conversations from time to time, so that things will be more accurate and the public will have a better understanding about what is going on.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p> \t<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-cfe0d7e4-c542-c262-5ba6-6c0c39859108\">The owner continued: &#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt that if we had to choose a difficult and unsuccessful year for Maccabi, the 2015-16 season holds a place of honor, possibly even first place. We&#8217;re aware that we&#8217;ve made some serious mistakes and that the team is going through a difficult period, and the fact that we&#8217;re not in the Euroleague speaks for itself. But we still have the real possibility of winning the Eurocup, the Israeli Championship, the Israeli Cup. Still, there&#8217;s no doubt that you can&#8217;t cover up your mistakes, we&#8217;re not trying to hide behind that. We made mistakes, we&#8217;ve tried to fix them and we&#8217;re still trying, and we&#8217;re looking forward.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p> \t<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-cfe0d7e4-c542-c262-5ba6-6c0c39859108\">&#8220;We&#8217;re definitely not indifferent,&#8221; Federman continued. &#8220;We take things to heart and we don&#8217;t sleep at night. I can understand the feelings of those who don&#8217;t like us, and who are happy about the troubles we have. But you need to take everything in the proper proportion. We&#8217;re going to do our best to bring Maccabi back to where we need to be. I think all of you know what Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball is, what we&#8217;ve achieved with this team, and the reputation this country has around the world.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Federman, one of the owners of Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv, spoke at a meeting with the media: &#8220;We&#8217;re aware that we&#8217;ve made some serious mistakes and that the team is going through a difficult period. Next year, we&#8217;ll bring players who can stand up to Real Madrid,  Barcelona, and CSKA.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-499169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499169","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=499169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499171,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499169\/revisions\/499171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499169"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=499169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}