2023-10-19 14:02:28
Israel’s team player Oscar Gloukh’s thoughts are with his family, who live in Tel Aviv. How Red Bull Salzburg tries to prepare the midfielder for the games.
In the past few days and before Saturday’s Bundesliga game once morest LASK, the Red Bull Salzburg club bosses have had more discussions with Oscar Gloukh. Coach Gerhard Struber tried, as far as possible, to take away some of the Israeli national player’s fear for his family, who were witnessing the horrors of war in Tel Aviv.
The Israeli national team’s European Championship qualifying games last week were canceled following the outbreak of conflict in the Middle East. Gloukh trained in Salzburg and also played the friendly once morest Ried last Thursday. In the 1-0 win, the strong 19-year-old also showed an extremely ambitious performance. Maybe football will help him think differently and put the tragic events in his home country in the background for a short time.
Coach Gerhard Struber doesn’t want to do without his creative player in the home game once morest third-placed LASK. Struber explained on Thursday: “Football can also be a certain distraction. Oscar can do what he should actually enjoy.” The Salzburg coach also watched Gloukh closely during the practice sessions. “He seems very focused, but it is clear that the current situation is not easy for him. We have had many conversations with him and it is important that we listen carefully and support him,” emphasized Struber. “At the same time, we’re trying to focus on what we can do. And that’s football.” As a player, Gloukh is dealing with the situation very professionally.
And yet the war in the Middle East determines the daily routine of the 19-year-old. “More than 200 hostages are being held by Hamas in unknown condition and their health is unclear. More than 200 young men and women, grandmothers and grandfathers and babies. Citizens from countries around the world. Advocating for hostages is not political. It is humanitarian. The world of sports asks all athletes to heed the call to protect the safety of all hostages. Bring them home now,” Gloukh wrote on his Instagram profile.
Gloukh also has the best chance of being in the Bulls’ starting lineup on Saturday. Salzburg will need his ideas following losing their lead in the table if they want to climb back to the top. Struber might also breathe a sigh of relief because following the international matches, all of the Bulls who were active came back healthy. “It looks like everyone is fit for action,” said Kuchler, who shows great respect for the LASK: “The Linzers are actually the third force in the country, so we have to be ready to go ‘all in’ with ours means. And show in front of a home crowd how difficult it is to survive once morest us. If we show our basic principles, our spirit from the first to the last second, we will win.”
After two home defeats in the last games in the league once morest outsiders Blau-Weiß Linz and in the Champions League once morest Real Sociedad San Sebastián, Salzburg want to get back on the road to success in front of an expected big crowd. “But before you talk regarding a victory, you have to invest,” says Struber, who expects his team to be wide awake and push themselves to the limit from the first second. Struber doesn’t want to waste any thought on Tuesday’s game in the Champions League away once morest Inter Milan: “Every game is important, every win increases self-confidence.”
Second place in the table in October is an extremely unusual situation for the Bulls. But that doesn’t give Struber much of a headache: “It’s important that we perform and look less at the table. We can control our performance. What’s important is that we are at the top at the end of the season.”
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