16 July 2010

All about Bnei Yehuda

A goal concede during stoppage time in Dublin fixed the result on 1-1 in the first leg against Shamrock Rovers, stopping Bnei Yehuda from putting serious weight on the qualification to the second round and continue their route in the preliminaries of the Europa League.

The team from Israel has a specila relationship with the qualifying phase of this competition. In the first round they eliminated Armenian side Ulisses (1-0 at home and 0-0 away). Last season, however they reached they 4th round adter winning 6 consecutive matches. Only PSV Eindhoven stopped them from reaching the main table.

Bnei Yehuda is the third team from Tel Avic together with Maccabi and Hapoel. The latter ended the last season winning the championship at the expense of Maccabi Haifa (opponent of Juventus in the last Champions League) and the national cup beating Bnei Yehuda in the final. The defeat stopped the team from improving thei trophy cupboard which holds a championship (1989/90) and State Cup and 2 Toto Cups.

The present team, while waiting to begin the championship, is coached by Dror Kashtan from Israel just like the majority of the players.

Bnei Yehuda plays its home matches at Bloomfield Stadium, a stadium of a capcity of 20,000 places that on the 22nd July will host the return match against Shamrock. The match will have all Juve fans and players as special viewers. The kick-off is at 19:30 CET hrs is 20:30hrs local time.

Juventus might have to return to Israel after less then a year from the match against Maccabi Haifa. This would add to the list of matches against teams from this country which besides the two matches last year also includes another two against Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2004.

 

 

 

Bari	Juventus	1 - 0
Bologna	Inter	0 - 0
Chievo	Catania	2 - 1
Fiorentina	Napoli	1 - 1
Milan	Lecce	4 - 0
Palermo	Cagliari	0 - 0
Parma	Brescia	2 - 0
Roma	Cesena	0 - 0
Sampdoria	Lazio	2 - 0
Udinese	Genoa	0 - 1