{"id":466931,"date":"2025-10-29T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=466931"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:52:41","slug":"hapoel-tel-avivs-president-ofer-yannay-responds-to-pedro-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/hapoel-tel-avivs-president-ofer-yannay-responds-to-pedro-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Hapoel Tel Aviv\u2019s President Ofer Yannay Responds to Pedro Mart\u00ednez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"537\">Hapoel Tel Aviv&#8217;s President Ofer Yannay defends his social media post, citing repeated hostile comments from Valencia coach Pedro Mart\u00ednez and quoting Milan Kundera in his official statement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"537\">We respectfully submit this response on behalf of Mr. Ofer Yannay, President of Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv, regarding the above-referenced disciplinary proceeding:<\/p>\n<ol data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"1064\">\n<li data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"1064\">\n<p data-start=\"542\" data-end=\"1064\">Mr. Yannay\u2019s post on the social media platform \u201cX\u201d was written in response to the ongoing and deeply concerning conduct of Mr. Pedro Mart\u00ednez, head coach of Valencia Basket, who has repeatedly used his social media account to post political content expressing hostility, hatred, fake news, and incitement toward the State of Israel and its people. Such content, which has no place in the sporting community, has been consistently visible and widely recognized. These posts are included as Exhibit A to this response<strong data-start=\"1003\" data-end=\"1062\">.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p data-start=\"1066\" data-end=\"1124\">In this context, the words of Milan Kundera are fitting:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"1125\" data-end=\"1309\">\n<p data-start=\"1127\" data-end=\"1309\">&#8220;The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.<br data-start=\"1207\" data-end=\"1210\" \/>And the struggle of man against totalitarianism is the struggle of laughter against seriousness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hi Pedro<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t want you to miss Milan\u2019s quote.. humor is so important <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R7ELdWFOlN\">https:\/\/t.co\/R7ELdWFOlN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fi1GdGjqIc\">pic.twitter.com\/Fi1GdGjqIc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ofer (@OferYannay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OferYannay\/status\/1983535227877376481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his statement to EuroLeague, Yannay defends his post on \u201cX\u201d, accusing the Valencia coach of spreading hostility and fake news against Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":378229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,255],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-466931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-israel","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/Hapoel-Tel-Aviv.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466931"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=466931"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=466931"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=466931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}