{"id":509396,"date":"2023-02-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/roman-sorkin-extended-until-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:18:48","slug":"roman-sorkin-extended-until-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/roman-sorkin-extended-until-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Sorkin extended until 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv extended Roman Sorkin&#8217;s contract for two more seasons, until the summer of 2025. The 2.08-meter Israeli Forward-Center, who joined from Maccabi Haifa in 2021, shows consistent improvement and became a true power in the paint on both sides of the court both in the EuroLeague and Israeli league.<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8220;Signing Roman Sorkin for two additional years beyond this one serves as a statement for our club&#8217;s long-term dedication&#8221;, said club chairman Shimon Mizrahi, &#8220;Roman will be one of the team&#8217;s anchors and one of our goals is to preserve the current roster and its continuity as much as possible. We are very happy and we congratulate Roman, who is certainly in a upward scale. I am sure he will keep this way&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/signing.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\" class=\"wp-image-522190 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/signing.jpg 980w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/signing-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/signing-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;I am very happy to sign for two more years in a club that has become my home&#8221;, commented Roman Sorkin, &#8220;I feel like we are all one big family. Our mutual goal is to earn achievements and make our fans &#8211; who I am so connected to &#8211; happy. We have goals and we are just in the middle of the season, and all I want right now is to work towards winning and earning trophies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> \t&#8220;It&#8217;s an important and meaningful extension for Maccabi&#8221;, said head coach Oded Kattash, &#8220;Roman has upside and is on the way up. I am delighted for us at Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv and delighted for him. I wish him many more years at Maccabi and now we will work together in full force towards the goals we set for this season&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">26-years-old Sorkin owns averages of 11.4 points, 5.8 rebounds and 0.6 blocks per game in the Israeli league. In EuroLeague play, the Israeli delivers 7 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1 block per game. With his great character and work ethic, he rapidly became a fan favourite in Tel Aviv.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv secured the services of the Israeli big for additional two years. Sorkin: &#8220;Happy to sign for the club that has become my home&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":522189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-509396","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\/509396","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=509396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522197,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509396\/revisions\/522197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509396"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=509396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}