Tension reportedly broke out at the airport in Cyprus following Hapoel Tel Aviv’s loss to Maccabi at the “Spyros Kyprianou” Stadium, with fans of the team approaching Dimitris Itoudis to express their dissatisfaction.
According to reports from the Israeli media outlet “Sport5,” a small group of Hapoel fans approached the Greek coach and directed insulting comments at him, demanding, among other things, that he return to Greece and questioning his coaching abilities. As reported in the article, club officials had to intervene to calm things down.
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In fact, team officials reportedly told the same media outlet that management had to step in, as the fans had come very close to Itoudis.
For its part, however, Hapoel Tel Aviv categorically denied the incident, stating in an official statement that, after speaking with the coach and team officials who were at the airport, “absolutely nothing happened.”
The loss to Maccabi was Hapoel’s second in a row in three days in the Israeli derby and its third consecutive loss in the EuroLeague, which is said to have caused discontent among the club’s management.
*photo source: KYPE
