{"id":481462,"date":"2026-01-30T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=481462"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:23:32","slug":"hapoel-tel-aviv-in-turmoil-ofer-yannays-harsh-message-and-a-two-hour-itoudis-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/hapoel-tel-aviv-in-turmoil-ofer-yannays-harsh-message-and-a-two-hour-itoudis-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hapoel Tel Aviv in turmoil: Ofer Yannay\u2019s harsh message and a two-hour Itoudis talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"1998\"><strong data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"1780\">Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong> are going through a rough stretch in the <strong data-start=\"1822\" data-end=\"1836\">EuroLeague<\/strong>, with a second consecutive defeat raising alarms after the loss to <strong data-start=\"1904\" data-end=\"1914\">Bayern<\/strong>. Reports say president <strong data-start=\"1938\" data-end=\"1953\">Ofer Yannay<\/strong> delivered a strong message in the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2000\" data-end=\"2230\">Yannay reportedly met with CEO <strong data-start=\"2031\" data-end=\"2052\">Kahi Reichenstein<\/strong>, head coach <strong data-start=\"2065\" data-end=\"2085\">Dimitris Itoudis<\/strong>, his assistants and the broader staff, demanding an immediate response. The tone was described as uncompromising, with a call for quick changes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2000\" data-end=\"2230\">\u201cThis situation cannot continue and, if it does, there will be shocks with everyone\u2019s position at stake, from the coach to the assistants and the analysts. Things have to change, and fast. You have the tools to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2232\" data-end=\"2434\">After the game, <strong data-start=\"2248\" data-end=\"2259\">Itoudis<\/strong> is said to have spoken to his players for roughly two hours to reset focus and accountability. Hapoel now look for a bounce-back on the court in the next EuroLeague fixtures.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2436\" data-end=\"2509\">Source: <em data-start=\"2444\" data-end=\"2452\">Sport5<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a second straight EuroLeague loss to Bayern, internal tension rises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":481461,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-481462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-israel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/GwkdHXQXkAADE6l.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481462","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481462"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481462"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481462"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}