{"id":508594,"date":"2022-02-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/giannis-sfairopoulos-message-to-the-maccabi-family\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:05:35","slug":"giannis-sfairopoulos-message-to-the-maccabi-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/giannis-sfairopoulos-message-to-the-maccabi-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Sfairopoulos&#8217; message to the Maccabi family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Once a Maccabist, always a Maccabist!<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I want to especially thank the owners of Maccabi Tel Aviv for giving me the opportunity to coach this legendary club. I want to thank all the players that I coached over the past four seasons for their cooperation. I would also like to thank the management, the coaches, the members of the staff, and the people in the offices of Maccabi for the great working relationship we had. I only made friends in Maccabi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Last, but not least, I want to thank each and every one of the fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv for all the love that they showed me. These moments of love will always live in a very special place in my heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Unfortunately, we did not perform well as of late, even though we tried to lift our team off a difficult situation. I am leaving the club that I love, knowing that I worked these past four seasons having embraced and showcased the &ldquo;Maccabist Mentality&rdquo; and the fighting spirit that characterizes this club. Working with a lot of respect, pride, dignity, and great professionalism.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Good luck to everybody in the club of Maccabi for the road ahead.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Yalla Maccabi!<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<em><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Giannis<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p> \t<em style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thank20You20Yannis20Story.jpg\" style=\"\" class=\"wp-image-519385 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thank20You20Yannis20Story.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thank20You20Yannis20Story-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thank20You20Yannis20Story-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thank20You20Yannis20Story-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thank20You20Yannis20Story-864x1536.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":519384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-508594","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\/508594","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=508594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519390,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508594\/revisions\/519390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508594"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=508594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}