Hab ich grade zufällig gefunden. Anscheinend ist ein underdog derzeit groß im kommen in der israelischen Liga und Tabellenführer:
Small City is Home to Israel's Unlikely Top Team (nytimes.com)
KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel — This city is one of Israel’s smallest, a hardscrabble place with a population of 23,000 that is less than two miles from the Lebanese border and through the decades has repeatedly found itself caught in the crossfire of Arab-Israeli strife. Kiryat Shmona's team, led by players like Elad Gabai, far left, won the Toto Cup. Children in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel have been gripped by soccer fever.
In 1974, Kiryat Shmona was the scene of a terrorist attack in which 18 Israelis, many of them children, were killed. Rockets have clobbered the town during cross-border fighting. Underground shelters are as familiar to the city as traffic lights. And jobs can be scarce. Yet somehow, Kiryat Shmona’s professional soccer team has become the runaway leader of Israel’s top league, has captured a separate tournament that concluded this week and has begun to turn perceptions of this often-beleaguered community upside down. For now, the king of soccer in this country is a team that plays in a 5,500-seat stadium, has a diverse 23-man roster that includes six Israeli Arabs and is still adjusting to the curiosity it is creating[...]