{"id":504700,"date":"2019-12-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/this-is-one-of-the-best-moments-in-my-career\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:12:32","slug":"this-is-one-of-the-best-moments-in-my-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/this-is-one-of-the-best-moments-in-my-career\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is one of the best moments in my career&#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\/7iHPOUPGxQA\" 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<p dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;Three weeks ago, the ownership decided to reach out to the coach and offer him a two-year extension with a club option. In a very short negotiation, decisive and positive, we agreed to terms, and we are happy today to announce the extension&#8221;, said Maccabi&#8217;s chairman&nbsp;<strong>Shimon Mizrahi<\/strong>&nbsp;in his opening statement at the festive press conference on Sunday evening. &#8220;I must say, in all my years in the organization, I&#8217;ve never seen a person acclimatize in such a fast and positive way. Not only he accepted Maccabi&#8217;s DNA, but he also knew how to pass it on to his players, and its seen in the team&#8217;s results&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;The coach also brought his family to Israel, both of his children study here, and one of them plays in our youth academy. His integration was quick&#8221;, mentioned the chairman, who spoke to the coach: &#8220;I want to congratulate you, you learn Hebrew with a private instructor, so I want to wish you Hazlacha Raba (Great Success)&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;We decided to continue with Giannis, we have a great experience with him in the past year, and we&#8217;ve seen him as somebody that can fulfill and maintain the vision of Maccabi&#8221;, Explained the sports director&nbsp;<strong>Nicola Vujcic<\/strong>. &#8220;The fans like him very much, and I think they are pleased with this signing. Giannis shares Maccabi&#8217;s DNA basketball &#8211; trying to win every game and make our fans happy. It&#8217;s a pleasure to work with him, and all my staff will be him to support and help to achieve Maccabi&#8217;s goals&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart the owners for giving me this chance to continue to coach Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv&#8221;, Opened&nbsp;<strong>Giannis Sfairopoulos<\/strong>. &#8220;Maccabi is a historical club in Europe, and for me, it&#8217;s a big honor to earn a new contract to stay here for three more seasons as part of the Maccabi family.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;I want to thank all the owners, management, Nicola, Ami, and everybody in the offices that work really hard behind the scenes for the best of the club. I want to thank the players that they were devoted since the day I got to this club, as they try to give their best every time on the court for Maccabi. I want to thank all the staff, the coaches, doctors, physios for the work they are doing every single day&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/coach2016920980.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px; width: 980px; height: 551px;\" class=\"wp-image-504697 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/coach2016920980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/coach2016920980-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/coach2016920980-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;This is one of the best moments in my career. I&#8217;m very touched from this moment&#8221;, Added the emotional Sfairopoulos. &#8220;I&#8217;m very happy that I&#8217;m here, and I want to tell our fans that we will do our best for the good of Maccabi. We will give everything we have on the court to win games and titles&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;First of all, congratulations. I think it&#8217;s great news for the players and the club&#8221;, Told the captain&nbsp;<strong>John DiBartolomeo<\/strong>. He has been an extraordinary leader since the day he got here and took us out of a tough spot. Since taking the job, he has coached in positivity, and above all, he is a kind person and a hard worker. Best of luck now and in the future&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/yanis_1280x720.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px; width: 980px; height: 551px;\" class=\"wp-image-504698 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/yanis_1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/yanis_1280x720-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/yanis_1280x720-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/yanis_1280x720-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 52-year-old Greek coach spoke in the festive press conference regarding the contract extension. Mizrahi: &#8220;In all my years in the organization, I&#8217;ve never seen a person acclimatize in such a fast and positive way&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":504696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-504700","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\/504700","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=504700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504704,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504700\/revisions\/504704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504700"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=504700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}