Hapoel Ra'anana - Hapoel Acre

A year ago, shortly before the opening of the football championship, Hapoel Acre was in crisis. A lawsuit between the municipality and the owners almost prevented her from participating in the championship. The lifeline came from an unexpected place: Keren Ben Nesher, until then an accountant in the team, came and offered to take the helm herself! But who is Ms. Keren Ben Nesher? We met her through her interview in the weekly women's magazine laisha.co.il/

He was born and raised in Moshav Goren in Western Galilee, the second child in a family of four. She graduated from the Regional High School of Western Galilee and did her military service at the headquarters of the Northern Administration. At the same time he was working in a packaging factory in Moshav. "We were two sons and two daughters and our mother educated us in full equality. He always said to me and my sister: "If a man can, you can too".

 "I lived with my parents, saving money and it was clear that one day I would have my own business. I had many dreams. In the end I met someone from my area and we got married. I then worked for an insurance company, where I received an offer from a good friend to run a network of beauty salons he had set up in the North. This was the opportunity I was looking for, a springboard. "Four years later, Ben Nesher found herself managing six branches with dozens of employees. "A big crisis in my marriage and the decision to divorce. But it was precisely the time when I discovered my abilities."

Over the years she studied makeup, bookkeeping and mediation, and her salary at work increased, but after 12 years she decided to get up and leave, even though she had no other job. "I knew that if I did not take a crazy step, I would be stuck in one place for 40 years, so I decided to look for work in areas I had not worked in before. One day I saw an ad asking for an accountant at Hapoel Acre. "Yaniv Mesulam, who was the CEO at the time, interviewed me and a few days later I was informed that I was accepted." The group belongs to an association that receives support from the municipality. Daniel Stanco was in the process of acquiring the team and when it was revealed that he did not meet various conditions, the municipality went to court. We found ourselves in a storm. "I sat in front of Mayor Shimon Lankri and Deputy Mayor Ohad Segev, presented them with a plan for the salvation of the group and resolutely asked them to let me manage it."

Ben Nesher won the club's management, but the road was and still is far from easy. "The fans do not want women. They believe that a woman can not succeed. It is not acceptable to be a woman at the head of the club and they are not interested in the facts. All this gives me strength and effort to prove that they are different. I intend to return him. club in its natural position in the Premier League, and to bring the women on the field.I will promote the club also in terms of values.It is true that this is a sport and there are goals and objectives.The club has Arab and Jewish players, it is a mixed group in a mixed city and that's very important to me.It's important to cultivate respect for all people, Arabs, Jews, women, men.

If we were at the beginning of the season, today's match would seem quite unequal as in relation to the "poor" Acre, Ranana had a multiple budget and a clear goal of an immediate return to the big category. However, we see that in the standings the two teams are almost in the same position, below the middle of the standings with over 50% of their games being draws (3-7-4) vs (3-8-3)

In a dilemma today, the veteran (58 years old) goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach at Hapoel Ramat Gan, Giora Atman as well as his two sons Ofek and Niv, also goalkeepers, will face opponents! It should be noted that Ofek played in 2018 at Panserraikos.

The statistics show a draw, the old man Giora also wants a draw, let us also bet on a draw!