{"id":19193,"date":"2023-12-23T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T05:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=19193"},"modified":"2023-12-23T00:33:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T05:33:33","slug":"maccabi-tel-avivs-seven-foreign-players-refuse-to-return-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/maccabi-tel-avivs-seven-foreign-players-refuse-to-return-to-israel\/19193\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi Tel Aviv\u2019s seven foreign players refuse to return to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All seven foreign players of Maccabi Tel Aviv did not return with the team to Israel on Friday after the Euroleague game in Belgrade the night before. All leading Israeli sports media cited the club\u2019s decision to cut 15 per cent of the players\u2019 wages due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict as the cause for the incident, reports Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the conflict, Maccabi hosts its Euroleague games at Aleksandar Nikolic Hall in Belgrade, Serbia, behind closed doors, resulting in heavy financial losses. On Thursday, Maccabi played the local side Red Star Belgrade and lost 98-92. \u201cAt the end of the game, the foreign players spoke with the club\u2019s management and announced their decision not to arrive in Israel,\u201d Maccabi said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the team will show up for its two upcoming Israeli Super League games on Saturday and Monday with only Israeli players. Maccabi\u2019s next Euroleague game is against Zalgiris Kaunas in Lithuania on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All seven foreign players of Maccabi Tel Aviv did not return with the team to Israel on Friday after the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":19196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6038,6037,1418,6036,4043,6039],"class_list":["post-19193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-euroleague","tag-foreign-players","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-maccabi-tel-aviv","tag-serbia","tag-wage-cuts"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}