{"id":1467,"date":"2010-08-19T18:21:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2010-08-20T17:02:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T16:02:47","slug":"on-the-wing-and-a-prayer-itay-shecheter-scores-for-hapoel-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/08\/19\/on-the-wing-and-a-prayer-itay-shecheter-scores-for-hapoel-tel-aviv\/","title":{"rendered":"On the wing and a prayer – Itay Shecheter scores for Hapoel Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hapoel Tel Aviv player Itay Shecheter’s goal celebration seems to have upset the Portuguese referee.<\/p>\n

Having scored \u00a0after running almost from the half-way line, he produced a Hapoel kippa from inside his sock.<\/p>\n

Having donned said head-covering he proceeded to go down on his knees, cover his eyes and appeared to offer a prayer to the Almighty.<\/p>\n

Why was he booked? Here’s the YouTube video of this event:<\/p>\n

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The manager said that when Christian players cross themselves when they score no-one makes a fuss. Muslim player also seem to acknowledge Allah.<\/p>\n

Maybe there’s some FIFA rule about wearing items of clothing or something. Maybe he thought he was advertising.<\/p>\n

Maybe he was just advertising his religion.<\/p>\n

Salzburg slaughtered by Shecheter*!<\/p>\n

*if you don’t get this joke, check a Yiddish dictionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Hapoel Tel Aviv player Itay Shecheter’s goal celebration seems to have upset the Portuguese referee. Having scored \u00a0after running almost from the half-way line, he produced a Hapoel kippa from inside his sock. Having donned said head-covering he proceeded to go down on his knees, cover his eyes and appeared to offer a prayer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[621,622,619,627,620,623],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-champions-league","tag-football","tag-hapoel-tel-aviv","tag-itay-shecheter","tag-salzburg","tag-soccer","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}