{"id":500595,"date":"2017-06-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/tal-burstein-is-coming-back-home-to-maccabi-tel-aviv\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:00:00","slug":"tal-burstein-is-coming-back-home-to-maccabi-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/tal-burstein-is-coming-back-home-to-maccabi-tel-aviv\/","title":{"rendered":"Tal Burstein is coming back home to Maccabi Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Tal Burstein is coming back home to Maccabi Tel Aviv as an assistant coach, the former legendary player<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">have<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> penned a <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">one year<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> deal with the club. Burstein (37) was one of Maccabi&#8217;s all-time greats who retired from the game five years ago due to injury.<\/p>\n<p> \tThis will be Tal&#8217;s premiere behind the lines, Tal who was a smart player and a winner will bring with him all the advantages he had as a player \u2013 leadership, high basketball IQ, and most of all a big heart and experience.<\/p>\n<p> \tTal first<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">arrived to<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> Maccabi in the 2000\/01 season at the age of 20 from Herzelia, and in his first season with the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">club<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> he became a starter for the team that won the European championship (<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Suproleague<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">). He played 11 seasons for Maccabi Tel Aviv and he&#8217;s one of the very few players to win three European titles while wearing the Maccabi jersey. In his 11 seasons with the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">club<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> he won 22 titles- 10 championships, 8 domestic cups, 3 European championships and 1 Adriatic league championship.<\/p>\n<p> \tAs a Maccabi player Tal scored over 3,200\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">point<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">, during the 2011\/12 season he served as team captain and he retired at the end of that season.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former legendary playerhave penned a one year deal with the club. Burstein (37) was one of Maccabi&#8217;s all-time greats who retired from the game five years ago due to injury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-500595","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\/500595","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=500595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500595"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=500595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}