Rami Hadar
Hapoel Be'er Sheva | |
2023– | Peja |
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2023– | Kosovo |
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Rami Hadar (Hebrew: רמי הדר; born 1 November 1966) is an Israeli basketball coach for the Peja of the Kosovo Basketball Superleague.
Early life
Hadar was born and grew up in Kiryat Tiv'on located at the northern district of Israel and started playing basketball as point guard at the local club in his town, Hapoel Kiryat Tiv'on. When he turned 18, Hadar decided to retire from basketball and join the IDF Navy Branch. Five years later, Hadar resumed his basketball career and played in the Israeli Basketball lower leagues for few years as he was studying to complete his course work to gain a basketball coaching diploma.
Coaching career
Hadar's coaching career began in 1992, when he got his first job as an assistant for
After 5 years, Hadar returned to basketball and once again started coaching teams in the lower leagues of the Israeli basketball. On 3 January 2011, while coaching Maccabi Be'er Ya'akov, his key player Itay Levi tragically collapsed and died of heart failure during a team's training session. Hadar found this incident hard to digest and decided to resign at the end of the season after he led Be'er Ya'akov to the second-tier league playoffs.[2]
In 2011/12 season, Hadar joined
One season later, Hadar returned to Liga Leumit and signed a one-year contract with Hapoel Afula where he ended the season in the 2nd place in the league, and once again earned his place as the head coach of Maccabi Haifa which he led twice to the league quarter-finals playoffs and to the semi-finals of the Israeli cup the following two years.
In July 2016, Hadar was appointed as assistant manager for Maccabi Tel Aviv under head coach Erez Edelstein. Three months later, Hadar replaced Erez Edelstein as the head coach on 22 October 2016 after Edelstein was fired due to a poor start of the season. On 16 December 2016, after losing three straight EuroLeague games, Hadar resigned.[4] On 3 January 2017, Hadar was appointed as head coach for Hapoel Tel Aviv and became the first head coach to manage Maccabi and Hapoel Tel Aviv at the same season. On 29 April 2017, he parted ways with Hapoel Tel Aviv.[5]
On 7 July 2017, Hadar was appointed as the head coach for SCM U Craiova of the Romanian League.[6]
On May 31, 2018, Hapoel Be'er Sheva announced Hadar as their new head coach for the 2018–19 season.[7]
References
- ^ Livnat, Arie. "הסוד של רמי הדר: כך הבסתי את הקבוצות הגדולות בישראל". HaAretz.
- ^ "מאלמוניות לאולימפוס: דרכו של רמי הדר לאימון מכבי ת"א". Ynet (in Hebrew). 23 October 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
- ^ "מכבי חיפה: רמי הדר מונה למאמן הקבוצה". Ynet (in Hebrew). 26 January 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
- ^ "Hadar resigned, Lubin the interim coach". Eurohoops.net. 16 December 2016.
- ^ Rami Hadar parted ways with Hapoel Tel Aviv
- ^ Rami Hadar is the new coach of basketball SCM CSU Craiova (Romanian)
- ^ "רמי הדר מונה למאמן הפועל באר שבע". basket.co.il (in Hebrew). 31 May 2018.
External links
- Rami Hadar profile in the Israeli Ligat Ha'Al website.