Video reporter: This is the tenth year that the annual tournament in memory of the late Dodi Hilleli is being held in Haifa
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Coverage by: the sports reporter of the website "Hai Fe"
In the tournament in memory of Dodi Hilleli that took place on Thursday 10.12.2015 in the evening, the group of journalists beat the group of veterans of Maccabi Haifa with a score of 2:6. Nir Davidovich, Gustavo Boccoli and Alon Harazi played in the Maccabi Haifa veterans' soccer team. Haifa Mayor Mr. Yona Yahav and the CEOs of the Hapoel and Maccabi Haifa soccer teams honored the occasion, which was extremely moving.
The late Dodi Hilleli served for several years as the chairman of the youth department of Hapoel Haifa in football and was a well-known figure in the city of Haifa, for many years he fulfilled the verse "Love your neighbor as you do" and his contribution and generosity were always for the benefit of others in the community and the weak in society, he died in 2004 After a battle with cancer.
The event took place like every year at the Leo-Bek sports center under the management of Yoav Yigol, in the French center in Haifa and was held in the presence of the mayor of Haifa township Mr. Yona Yahav, the mayor of Nesher township Mr. Avi Binmo, many public figures, the CEO of the Maccabi Haifa football team Itamar Chiz Yak and CEO of the Hapoel Haifa football team Ephraim Gabbai, family members and hundreds of spectators including coaches and football players from the present and the past, the small team of the Haifa and the North press desk won the cup in memory of the late Dodi Hilleli.
This year's tournament was the "tournament of the decade" and the most invested that took place for the tenth year in a row at the Leo Beck Sports Center. In the final, the team of journalists won 2:6 over the veterans of Maccabi Haifa. Goalkeeper Nir Davidovich, the attraction who returned to play, Gustavo Boccoli, Alon Harazi, Rafi Cohen and others played in its ranks. The team of journalists won the cup for the first time after ten years. The team is coached by the former player of Hapoel Haifa and the Israeli national team, Eli Leventhal.
Among those who came to honor the event were the football coaches, Roni Levy, Elisha Levy, Shlomi Dora and Yaron Hochenboim. In addition, Avi Niemani, Yossi Benyon and the team's foreign players Gleanor Pelt, Mark Valienta and Nikola Drincic were seen.
Six teams took part in the senior tournament, which were divided into two different houses. In House A, the Haifa Municipality teams, the referees and Maccabi Haifa veterans played. In House B, the Hilleli family, Radio Haifa and the journalists took part. The teams Nesher, Beitar Maccabi and Hapoel Haifa took part in the children's tournament. The games were officiated by referees Ya'akov Ben Hamo, Guy Berger and Yogev Miro.
During the entire event, donuts were distributed to the large audience present in the stands, and at the end of the event, a special music video was prepared in memory of Dodi Hilli, and then the ceremony of lighting the fifth candle of Hanukkah and awarding trophies to the winners took place. A friend of the Hilleli family, the CEO and founder of the "Yad Ezer HaShevre" association, Mr. Shimon Sebag, whose late uncle Hilleli was one of the oldest volunteers of the "Yad Ezer Hefevere" association, which owns Kiryat Hesed Shlomo, which mortgages and operates a "Home for Holocaust Survivors" above of 120 Holocaust survivors and has been helping the needy and the weaker sections for over 25 years, located on Kessel Street in Haifa.
Photos from the event in memory of Dodi Hilleli
Photography: Yaron Karmi
