Ran further described how from a young age he had always waited for training, and now things have changed: now he arrives, hoping that the coach will not be able to come but will be replaced by someone else, and when the coach does arrive, Ran is just waiting for the training to end. On the impact of these things on his life, he described how he was constantly preoccupied with the state of things with the coach, and reached a state of depression. He has no ability to concentrate on what is happening at school, he claimed. His parents noticed at the beginning of the year what was happening, that he was in a bad mood and his confidence was declining, so they brought him a mental coach, former player Jean Telesnikov, who did everything he could to help Ren. But Ran did not share everything that happened with his parents or the teacher, because he did not want them to know, and in any case he did not wanthis parents to talk to the coach, because he was afraid that it would only hurt him. He added, excited: "I can testify to myself that I am not a child who cries, sensitive, I have never cried in front of the team. I would sometimes go home alone, ... I would cry alone and try to hide as much as possible, you're frustrated and take out everything you have."
Now Ran trains alone, every day, and with the help of a personal trainer, he goes to the gym, goes to the field alone, and waits. He did not return to the team; In any case, the coach also removed him from the team's WhatsApp group, but it was Ran who stopped training with the team at this stage. Finally, he added that he loved the team and wanted to continue at the club, but if the coach remained in his position, he would not do so. And if the court does not release him - something that Ran found difficult to understand how it could not happen - he will go into "quarantine", the same option granted by law to refrain from playing for a period of time (which in this case will take a year) before moving to another club.
- Ran's mother added. Mainly - repentance, how she, the human resources manager of a large company, did not recognize the warning signs at the end of the previous season; How she and Ran's father, who advocates the principle of keeping contracts, urged Ran to continue another season even if the coach remained in his position, and even though Ran asked to leave the team even then. How, as a mother, she didn't understand the severity, even if Ran was careful not to share everything he was going through with her, and how she actually sent her son to a place where he was so bad, so many hours a week. Ran's uncle also testified about his experiences from one of the games he accompanied Ran to.
- As noted, Ran's mentor, Ms. Revital Avraham, also submitted an affidavit, and with the consent of the agreement, no special hearing was scheduled for her oral hearing, while emphasizing that this does not constitute acceptance by the club as to the weight or relevance of the claims. She has 35 years of experience in education, and is Ran's teacher since the ninth grade, i.e. last year. Due to Ran's athletic skills, and her impression of him as having high learning abilities and good character, she referred him to a small and elite class in the 10th grade, which she also educated. At the beginning of the year, he succeeded, and later began to have difficulty in his studies, she said (although no grades were presented). She found him depressed and detached, and it was clear to her that he was "going through" something in his personal life. At first he refused to share with her, but eventually broke down and shared his feelings about being humiliated by the coach. The educator, who was concerned about his condition, worked with the help of the entire pedagogical staff to help, including through a teacher who learned coaching (coaching) to help him mentally. The teacher's impression was that his condition began to improve to some extent, and then at the end of April (the date of the aforementioned game against Ramat Hasharon) Ran "fell apart" at school. Ran's continued stay with the current coach will hurt him, and will even frustrate his ability to succeed in the matriculation exams that are expected for him next year, he estimated.
As stated, the educator did not testify, but only gave an affidavit, and the club appropriately waived the need for her to testify. Ran confirmed from his own mouth everything that was said in that affidavit, as far as he was concerned with what he knew from his personal knowledge.
- From the club's side, the coach first testified. He did this calmly and pleasantly. He reviewed his career as a player at the club and elsewhere, and his coaching career, for the past 13 years, most of them at the club. He is trained to serve as a coach, and holds the necessary certificates. As for how to voice criticism to children, the coach received "general guidelines, guidelines" in the same training, and his concern is with the way to impart knowledge, mainly technical, to the players. If treatment is required for the "mental side" of any child, the club has a "mental coach" for this purpose, as well as a person who manages the psychology department at the club. The coach was not exposed to any of Ran's difficulties. As for Ran's claims against him, the coach explained that all the things a coach says come "solely to improve the player's professional ability." His role as a coach is to improve the boys' and children's teams "so that they can integrate into the senior team." Harsh words, if he says, only increase the chances of reaching professional success, in other words, towards the graduate group. He found it difficult to explain what those "harsh words" were, even though he insisted that he had never swore or cursed a player. He does use the term "golem," but it is not a curse in his eyes: "This word can be interpreted in several aspects," he explained, and one of them is someone who is expected to "develop and be better and be a butterfly."
As for the events in the game against Nir Ramahash, he noted that he "doesn't know where they heard one expression or another." Maybe someone in the audience said that. "As far as I'm concerned, there never was and never was," he added, although he explained that it is legitimate as the team's coach to be disappointed by the miss.