By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Maccabi Tel Aviv will have the chance to play against Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Winner Cup final without even giving a semifinal game.
To be exact Hapoel Tel Aviv forfeited the semifinal after the police have taken the decision to scan every fan’s ID number before they can attend the match for security concerns, leading to huge queues outside the venue.
Hapoel Tel Aviv wrote the following message on their social media accounts.
“Sports fans – not criminals!
Starting in the morning we began to receive messages from which we understood that the Israeli police treated tonight’s game as a war event in which the fans included, from the age of eight to eighty, women, and children – all of them were potential criminals.
In light of the attitude in which the audience was treated at the entrance to the hall, we decided that there was no point in going up to play tonight.
The sport belongs to the fans!”
After this decision, Hapoel Tel Aviv may face a fine of up to 100.00 euros.