{"id":499435,"date":"2016-06-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/i-was-crazy-about-the-chance-to-come-and-play-for-maccabi\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:20:00","slug":"i-was-crazy-about-the-chance-to-come-and-play-for-maccabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/i-was-crazy-about-the-chance-to-come-and-play-for-maccabi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI was crazy about the chance to come and play for Maccabi.\u201d"},"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\/oqT2lLcPpk4\" 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 style=\"direction: ltr; \">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-12985f30-592d-b34b-5baf-1e6cd3f2f0ac\">By Amy Samin<\/span><\/span><br \/> \t\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-12985f30-592d-b34b-5baf-1e6cd3f2f0ac\">Busy, exciting, intense \u2013 pick the best adjective to describe the days Mike Zirbes has been having lately. At the beginning of the week he won the championship with Red Star Belgrade, and right after that he landed in Israel, put on the yellow, and officially joined Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv. The German center (26, 6\u201910\u201d) who, without a doubt, was one of the players who made the most significant breakthrough in the Euroleague this past season, will soon be enjoying listening to you, our fans, in the arena. But before that, we sat him down with Noa the Maccabistit for an informal, relaxed interview. Watch the video.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, is it Maik Zirbes or Mike Zirbes? What\u2019s his main hobby? And what is his strongest memory of the Maccabi fans? Noa the Maccabistit sat down for a chat with our new center. Watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-499435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maccabist-only"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499435","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=499435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499437,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499435\/revisions\/499437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499435"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=499435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}