{"id":46803,"date":"2021-12-10T10:40:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T10:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=46803"},"modified":"2021-12-10T10:40:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T10:40:26","slug":"sfairopoulos-and-maccabi-under-fire-krstajic-is-maccabis-strange-coaching-hire-on-the-sports-rabbi-show-252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/sfairopoulos-and-maccabi-under-fire-krstajic-is-maccabis-strange-coaching-hire-on-the-sports-rabbi-show-252\/","title":{"rendered":"Sfairopoulos and Maccabi under fire, Krstaji\u0107 is Maccabi&#8217;s strange coaching hire on The Sports Rabbi Show #252"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.podomatic.com\/embed\/html5\/episode\/10183866?style=normal&amp;autoplay=false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" style=\"width: 504px; height: 208px;\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesportsrabbi\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Sports Rabbi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RShelem\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roye Shelem<\/a> look back at Maccabi Tel Aviv&#8217;s disastrous loss to UNICS Kazan in a must win game and talk about Ioannis Sfairopoulos&#8217;s future. 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