Kesher Talk

Maccabi Haifa scheduled to be clubbed into submission in UEFA Champions League: You might have read below that Maccabi Haifa was the first Israeli soccer club to ever qualify for the League's group stages.

Now that the draws have been set, Maccabi's players must be crapping their pants. It was to be expected, given the way teams are "seeded" for the draws, but still, this just stinks.

First up, they play the perennial English Premier League dominating Manchester United on September 18. Then they get to take on the German League's Bayer Leverkusen and Greece's Olympiakos.

Don't expect Israel's team to hang around very long...

posted by Howard @ 8/29/2002 05:01:33 PM