Culture and Sports Minister Chili Tropper says politics won’t be a factor in the selection of the next coach of the national soccer team.
Tropper is responding to Transportation Minister Miri Regev’s comments yesterday that Eyal Berkovic, a talk show host and former soccer star, would never coach the team because he called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party a “criminal organization.”
Regev, a Likud ally of Netanyahu’s, was culture and sports minister before Tropper.
“We’ll conduct ourselves in a statesman-like and a topical way. Politics and the politicians will remain on the side. A specific political view doesn’t need to be related to the position of coach,” Tropper is quoted saying by Army Radio.
Following Regev’s comments, Berkovic told Sport One that he hopes to be the next coach of the national team.
The current coach, Willibald Ruttensteiner, is set to step down in December.
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