From all of this, a clear picture emerges: First, we are dealing with an existing, significant, and widespread problem. Second, it demonstrates an inherent difficulty in which the coach, who often lacks sufficient training but is in a position of power, can and sometimes uses this power in an inappropriate way, while his trainee (especially the non-professional, and even more so the minor) is in a built-in position of weakness and lacks any practical strength to deal with the problem. Third, the impact of this behavior is severe and harmful.
- The club claims: The coach's behavior can be justified by the fact that he is required to achieve victories. However, the desire to achieve victories, the desire of the club and the coach, cannot be a basis for humiliating the underage students. The Rambam's call to exercise ("As long as a person exercises and exerts a lot... There is no sickness on him and his strength is strengthened" (Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot De'ot 4:19)), there is no line connecting it to the number of points that Bnei Yehuda's boys' B team will win in the national league south, as the only criterion for the coach's success. Max Nordau's call at the Second Zionist Congress in 1898 for the cultivation of "the physical education of the next generation, which will restore and create for us the lost muscle Judaism," is not the logical end of the in humiliating the next generation, not in determining The success of a boys' coach, but in accordance with the number of victories accumulated by the team he coached. Of course, no one will deny the recognition of the competitive instinct of all those involved in the field of sports since ancient times, and the natural desire to win any competition, which is a powerful driving force. However, this is not the only purpose of educating minors in the field of sports.
In this sense, there is a deep gap - although it was clear that the coach and the club in our case do not recognize this - between the role of the coach of the professional adult team, and the role of the coach of minor teams. See: Roni Lidor, "The Educational Context of Sports: A Systemic Approach", Is It Just Sports? The Educational Context of Sport in School and the Community 273 (Roni Lidor and Naomi Feigin, eds., 2004; hereinafter: Is It Just Sports?).