Hi,
happy to see Adi_Haifa20 joined me here
I actually expected much less union fans to come. 600 is impressive considering the tough limitations and all the covid nonsense. Just to get proportion - we had hosted here in Israel two more German teams - Bayern in the champions league group stage opener, and Schalke in a Europa league group stage match, and neither of them have brought more than 300 if I remember correctly. And that was before covid of course. So - much respect to those of you who come. I know we are a tough destination for European teams even without covid.
On the other hand, I feel obligate to tell you, that I see lately around social networks a lot of fans that are now "suddenly" publishing again all the stories about the anti-semitic incident in our away match. And because only the 1500 fans that were there with me know what really happened, and experienced your lovely hosting and guest-welcoming - it is hard now to control the dis-information. That being said, I really hope that I'm wrong here, but you should maybe expect some kind of hostility from some of our fans, that think you are all anti-semitic or something like that.
***I'm only writing this here so you won't be surprised if you get some boos or even curses from our fans - but there is absolutely no reason to be afraid or anything like that.
Hope I made myself clear and everyone will still feel free to walk around the stadium, drink beer with us and enjoy the evening happily.
One last thing - unfortunately, a lot of our fans don't take this competition really seriously - so the stadium won't be full (around 20k out of 30k capacity). Despite that, I still recommend you enter the stadium at least 45 minutes-1 hour before the game starts - to fully enjoy our crowd atmosphere from the beginning
That's it, as always you are all welcome to ask me anything in private. Have a nice trip everyone, enjoy the game, and "Yalla Maccabi"