{"id":499414,"date":"2016-06-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/maik-zirbes-signs-with-maccabi\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:19:40","slug":"maik-zirbes-signs-with-maccabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/maik-zirbes-signs-with-maccabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Maik Zirbes Signs with Maccabi"},"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\/V7HXdEc0vOg\" 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\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-214fd8e4-4e7e-490e-fef0-7cbe105b0068\">By Amy Samin<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-214fd8e4-4e7e-490e-fef0-7cbe105b0068\">Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv is pleased to announce that they have signed German center Maik Zirbes (26, 6\u201910\u201d) to a two year contract.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span>Zirbes is an aggressive center who dominates in the paint with an impressive combination of strength and technique. An energetic player and an excellent rebounder, Zirbes fights hard on every possession at both ends of the court. He was named to the German All Stars three years in a row (2012-2014), and has won the German League championship and the German Supercup (2013). In addition, Zirbes has won the Serbian championship (2015, 2016), the Serbian Cup (2015), and the Adriatic League championship (twice \u2013 2015 and 2016).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr;\"> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv is pleased to announce that they have signed German center Maik Zirbes (26, 6\u201910\u201d) to a two year contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-499414","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\/499414","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=499414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499416,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499414\/revisions\/499416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499414"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=499414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}