There are football games where, apart from 11 players in each team, you take to the field, also decades of history, of bitter battles, of breathtaking decisive games, penalties in a cup game that will be remembered even after years, humiliating defeats alongside moments of elation.
Manchester United and Liverpool, for example, can in a given season be no more than “mid-table plus” teams (mainly United), but the battle between them will always be the “Battle of England” and the game that no English football fan can afford to miss, even if the championship is decided Between Arsenal or Chelsea and Manchester City.
The same is true of the Spanish “Clasico” – with all due respect to the derby of Madrid or the Basque Country, there will be a game in which victory is like a title – and you can continue to River Boca or Ajax-Feyenoord: they will run for the championship or flounder in the middle of the table, there is no meeting between them that is not a battle for An honor that cannot be greater than him in the local arena.
We said “tens of years” even though both associations have existed for about a hundred years or more. So why dozens? Because until the mid-1980s there was a clear division of status between the two clubs: Maccabi Haifa was for Maccabi Tel Aviv “another” team that had to be beaten on the way to the title – and Maccabi Tel Aviv was for Maccabi Haifa the team that, when it swallows the 100 kilometers and the hundred years that separate Tel Aviv For Haifa, all the tickets for Kiryat Eliezer are being sold – as if a team from Europe had arrived to play in the province.
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