The
Israeli champion of the last three years, Maccabi Tel Aviv, probably holds two
of the best young goalkeepers in world football – the Serbian Fredereg
Raikovich (20) and the local Haviv Ohayon (17).
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| .Raikovich (in action) and Ohayon in practice (Credit: maccabi-tlv.co.il) |
Fredereg
Raikovich
The
highly rated young Serbian who moved this summer from Red Star (Serbia) signed
a five-year contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel) for a fee of €3 million. He
was mentioned by The France football magazine as one of the top 50 young
players in the world together with names like Anthony
Martial, Alen
Halilovic and Martin Odegaard.
In his
short career so far, Raikovich has already won the FIFA U-20 World Cup with the Serbian national team, including winning the title of FIFA U-20 World Cup Best goalkeeper, and established
himself as the starting goalkeeper and the captain of Red star.
Haviv
Ohayon
Unlike Fredereg Raikovich, Ohayon is a product
of Maccabi Tel Aviv youth academy. Paulo Sousa,
who managed Maccabi during the 2013-14 season, called up Ohayon to the senior
squad two years ago at the age of 15, believing that the young keeper would be a
future star. At the beginning of the season Ohayon was planned to be the second choice
goalkeeper (second to Juan Pablo Colinas) but the arrival of the young Serbian keeper changed
those plans.
Ohayon was returned to the
youth team in order to take part in the UEFA Youth League. His performance at
Chelsea at the start of this tournament was extremely positive, even though
Maccabi lost 3-0. Recently Ohayon was mentioned by the Guardian in the list of
the 50 best young talents in world football.
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