Maccabi Haifa F.C.

So we just want to say thank you for your time here.

As someone that is buddy-buddy with the kid managers for Stevenage and Maccabi Haifa, I have a fascination for this on song heroes, for the groundskeepers.

I think, like I said, I'm fascinated by the world of football that not necessarily means putting on a kit and and boots and kicking the ball for 90 minutes.

So we wish you the best.

Abdel Isaac is 34 years old now.

He plays for Maccabi Haifa in Israel since 2022 and teams in Belgium and Norway before that.

But he is born in Senegal and played for youth clubs there.

And his first tournament, despite being with the team since 2013, was the 2021 African Cup.

Well, I think it helped me also to my career.

I play with a big club, Maccabi Haifa.

I took trophies, you know, I became one of the best in Israel national team, and I was ready for my challenge in Europe.

And I went for 12 years in a row in Europe-

Uh, we did well.

The club went to the, uh, Premier League.

And, uh, after that, you know, I, uh, I had an offer from MLS, in Israel, and I sat with my family and we, we decided to come back to the club that I played before in Israel, Maccabi Haifa.

And actually I thought I would finish my career there, but I kept going to play for five more years.

Yonatan, I know you're not a football fan.

You're a Maccabi Haifa fan, which...

I used to be, yes.

Yeah, you know, I remember a few months ago, and we may have even done an episode about this.

38 caps and six goals and is 31 years old.

Plays for Maccabi Haifa in Israel since 2025.

And he's had a pretty varied career, playing in Portugal for a couple of teams and with Swansea in the English League.

from 2013 to 2018 that was actually his youth club or his last youth club because prior to that he played for both Manchester United and Manchester City youth clubs there for a long time with the Manchester United though nine years Kenjigori was born in the Netherlands and his father actually is an international manager as well well not as well because Kenjigori isn't but he's involved in soccer as well international manager mostly for Suriname another country associated with the Netherlands in terms of tournaments Kenjigori was selected for the 2019 gold cup there also for the 2021 gold cup which they didn't end up playing in just a substitute in 2019 but a starter in the 2025 gold cup Over the recent period, though, he only started half of the games, started four of the eight games, subbed in for one and on the bench for two, and injured I have for two here, but there's some mathematical miscount.

And you did that season.

You, me, and Omar were here like the Maccabi Haifa, all these fucking shit shows.

And it's like, when are we going to learn, right? Take your lessons, put them into effect.

Now, storm the barn, baby.

People might say, "Oh, Steven Gerrard, not someone that we want." Robbie Keane is experienced manager in terms of in the Hungarian Israeli league, and he's done quite well.

He managed Mka- Maccabi Haifa.

I'm not gonna attempt...

Do you know what? I'm gonna attempt it.

I mean, we all know Eckingbottom.

What was Eckingbottom? Twenty-six, twenty-seven percent.

So sixty-six percent, granted that is with Maccabi Haifa, obviously one of the top teams in Israel and the top Hungarian, one of the top Hungarian teams, we will say.

But look, he has been linked strongly, I would say, over the last couple of years to the role at Celtic every time the Celtic manager has gone, which was obviously I think twice last season.