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Israeli youth soccer team suffers food poisoning in Bulgaria
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleMembers of an Israeli youth soccer team suffer food poisoning at a hotel in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Maccabi Petah Tikva youth soccer team falls ill over the weekend in Sofia, where they are attending a training camp. Several players are admitted to the hospital, Israel’s Sport 5 television reports.
After the food poisoning incident, which begins hours after a joint Friday night dinner, the team purchases its own food to avoid a similar incident.
Avi Luzon, a Maccabi Petah Tikva team official, tells Sport 5 that they believe the team may have intentionally been poisoned after singing Hebrew songs at their Friday night dinner.
— JTA
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