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The History of the Club
Eastern Suburbs Hakoah Futsal Club
Back in 1997/98 David Rutner and Zvi Ben David had a setup which allowed Jewish kids to play Futsal at a competitive level,
There were 2 age groups, men and youth and was mainly made up of North Shore and Eastern Suburbs players.
Back then there was only one official competition but the Maccabi teams were strong in both age groups which allowed a our players to be selected for national youth call-ups in Dale Levin Gareth Naar and Earl Dresener, Graham Kaplan & Adam Schwartz.
The first game was against GB (ranked 4th) which the Aussie boys won 4-3 in the most epic of matches played at a Maccabiah. In the 2nd game we lost to Switzerland and then finally to France to be knocked out. From that moment John Myers took control of the club and made it into the force that we see today.
Back in Australia John Myers went in partnership with the Greater Western Sydney Vikings Futsal Club. He used this as a setup for the players to play in the Super League in NSW. It was in the first season where the boys learnt a lot about futsal and most games were lost, but in the 2nd season the men’s team made the final only to lose it after being 2-1 up because Daniel Nadel was sent off half way through the 2nd half.
Players came and went throughout the years but young players came through such as Jordan Mundell, Paul Meltz, Andy Kanchik, Sam Kettler, Sam Benda and Jimmy Nadel along with some new coaching faces in Scott Gilligan and Simon Kieth. The quality of these players and coaches allowed the team to compete in overseas competitions, such as in Portugal in 2008 and Rome (2009 Maccabi Euros). With Managers like Brett Levin at the helm the team had everything it needed to succeed in future years.
Finally the Maccabi Futsal Club was setup and entered into the Football NSW State League competition. With quality coaches and players, a team was created that could potentially win things and with that came some new signings in Simon Keith, Denny Dutra and Daniel Fulton. All three added class to the then Maccabi setup and this team would go onto win the Super League, the NZ National League and the F-League. (see amazing teams)
It wad around the time of the second Maccabiah, in 2009 that the new players started to turn heads. Players like Jarrod Basger and his brother Dylan, Matt and Brett Rosenberg as well Adam Freidman. New additions that added some flare to an aging team but were very welcome at the time. Jarrod Basger wasn’t selected for the Maccabiah in 2009 as Simon Kieth went for a more experienced side with the likes of Lev Lewis and Anthony Tow now spearheading the team.
The 2009 Maccabiah futsal team made it to the QF – the first time a football discipline for Australia attending the games had ever made. They lost to the past champions Russia in extra time but cemented the team as a force to be reckoned with.
Photo Competing in Israel in 2009
After this time Steven Knight had taken charge and there was a shift in the team dynamics as well as the captaincy which was given to Doron Pozniak. The spell would prove to be the best in the clubs history as Pozniak went onto captain the team to two Super League titles, the NZ national Title, an F-League title, two Maccabiah Quarter Finals, Asian Champions League qualifiers in Vietnam and of course the pinnacle a European Maccabiah Gold Medal in Vienna.
It was that Gold Medal winning performance that made everyone stand up and take note. The team which was comprised of John Myers, Dale Levin, Lev Lewis, Matty Rosenberg, Anthony Tow, Sam Benda, Jarrod Basger Dean Ginsberg and Jordi Mundell. Beat Lithuania in the most dramatic of finals 6-4. A proud moment for the club that started back in 1997.
Photo Competing in Berlin in 2015 European Maccabiah Competition Silver medalists
After returning from Israel the Club had a change in management. The men’s team needed to be rebuilt as the original players were starting to “age out of the team” and the rest of the Club needed to be restructured so that we would have strong junior teams feeding our older teams players. We needed to develop our coaching staff, provide pathways for our players, attempt to get in the Premier League division one competition and start building relationships with overseas clubs. With the overseas Clubs would go on tour, exchange players and possibly even get top level coaches to run camps for us.
The Club had two strokes of real luck. Two Australian Futsalroos joined its mens team and one of the best coaches in Australia agreed to Coach its under 12’s team. That year the Club went from 9th position to 3rd with both our men and our U12’s being undefeated. The following year the Club came fourth, then second then last year, finally the Club won the Premier League two competition.
In the same year our men went back to Maccabiah beating the Brazilians in what turned out to be there semi final only to fall to an amazing Argentinian team. This was however the first time any Australian team had won a medal at a Maccabiah.
The 2017 season also marked a milestone in that the Club got promoted to Premier league Division 1. Although no team won its competition every team finished in the top four and the club finished winning the Club competition by over 20 points.
The next year (2018/2019)was going to be hard. No club that had been promoted had stayed up the following year. We recruited some new coaches and ran trials. However, it was very hard to attract players to a newly promoted club. The players feared that the club would be demoted at the end of the season, and they would end up in Division 2. To help the situation the President toured Brazil and recruited two female players to strengthen our womens team. However, the surprise of this season was our under 15 girls. A team made up of PL2 players who under the coaching of Stephen Peters won the whole competition. The first time a team being promoted had won the competition. The came fourth in the Club championship and managed to stay up.
The following year the club created history. We appointed Miles Downie to be our men’s coach and ran open trials for that team. Over 55 players trialed a massive shock for a team that was used to having 2 or three new players a year. Due to the trials, we picked up some key players. We had needed to. The team had come 7th the previous year. Most years the men’s competition is really even. Any team can win it. During the regular season the team came fourth, and in the finals we pulled off a huge shock beating the Mighty Inner West Majik Club. A team full of Futsalroos.
As a reward the men’s team got to play a trial game against the futsalroos. They played brilliantly going ahead two nil before the Australian pulled it back to two all. WE scored late and thought we had won it only for the Futsalroos to draw level again. Never the less drawing with the national team was fantastic. Covid closed the club down for two years after this. Although we played in some local competitions the premier league was suspended.
In 2022 The men went back to Maccabiah but there were to many injuries for them to properly challenge fort the Cup.
A surprise package was the Australian womens futsal team at the Maccabiah. Although the club could not claim that we had sent our womens team, almost all of the players had played for the club at one point or another. In there first try at winning the Australians won gold. The first Gold medal for any Australian football team.
In 2023 both the men’s and the womens teams looked like they might challenge for gold in the Premiership. However, Injuries, A league and withdrawals stopped any chance of the women challenging, but as in 2019 the men came fourth in the regular season. In the semi finals they beat the mighty Viper men and took the Mountain Majik men to penalties, where an amazing performance by our goalkeeper won them the game. The men had now won the competition twice in three years
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League Management
Daniel Sharp
President
Daniel is the CEO of Warrington Scott and President of the Club since 2015.
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David New
Vice President
Vice President of ESHFC and in charge of the boys academy.
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Jade Marishel
Compliance & Member Protection information officer & Jewish Liaison
Jade.
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Doron Pozniak
Recruitment
Recruitment
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Mick Vasin
Administration officer
0413 626 364
Mick is the Sports officer for Maccabi NSW and administrator for ESHFC.
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Dylan Basger
Treasurer
Dylan is a current player in our men’s team and was a member of the 2017 Silver winning Australian mens team and is also a senior accountant.
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Robbie Ezekiel
Management
Robbie is both a Player and a competition winning coach and was a member of the Australian Men’s 2015 and 2017 Maccabiah teams and is a current member of the Futsalroos.
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