{"id":499771,"date":"2016-10-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/edelstein-we-want-to-feel-our-home-crowd\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:24:22","slug":"edelstein-we-want-to-feel-our-home-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/edelstein-we-want-to-feel-our-home-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Edelstein: &#8220;We want to feel our home crowd&#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\/ZGJpxom-7E4\" 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; text-align: justify;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv returned to Israel on Friday, after the heart-breaking loss 97:99 in Milan. The good news for Erez Edelstein and his players is that next week will bring two home games &#8211; against Hapoel Eilat and Real Madrid.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a process \u2013 building a team&#8221;, said Coach Erez Edelstein, &#8220;We had good and bad games so far. Our defense wasn&#8217;t up to par during the two official games we played and that&#8217;s something that we need to get better at. I know no way to do that other than hard work and persistence&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Edelstein spoke of the home premier next week, against Eilat: &#8220;We played 11 games thus far and only 1 was at home. We need to get the confidence and enthusiasm our crowd can give us. We need to feel at home&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi returned to Israel and the head Coach looked ahead to the home premier next week: &#8220;Only 1 of our 11 games so far was played at home. We need the push our crowd can give us&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-499771","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\/499771","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=499771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499772,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499771\/revisions\/499772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499771"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=499771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}