All soccer players know that timing is no less important than soccer skills. A member of the Israel national soccer team and the German soccer team, Eintracht Frankfurt, Taleb Tawatha, who arrived just last weekend to play with the Israeli national team against Armenia, was also able to time the birth of his brand new daughter, Alin, who was born two days ago at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center.
In the Obstetrics Department, the staff naturally did not initially connect the mother and baby to the player, who is known to all sports lovers. However, it was actually the Newborn and Neonatal Care Department Director, Dr. Michael Feldman, a die-hard soccer fan, who saw the unique last name on the mother's chart, demonstrated his knowledge and told the staff that there is a soccer player with the same name. Dr. Amit Hochberg, a senior physician in the department, who examined the baby before she was discharged, asked the mother if she was related to the famous soccer star. Her answer, "He's my husband," came along with her husband himself, who walked into the discharge room right afterwards.
Dr. Feldman, "Any soccer fan would always be happy to meet the players they watch closely, and I was especially happy that Taleb Tawatha and his wife chose to have their baby with us at Hillel Yaffe and not in Germany.
Tawatha himself said that his firstborn, a son, was also born at Hillel Yaffe, and it was clear to him and his wife that they would come back to the same place this time too,
From right to left: Dr. Michael Feldman, Taleb Tawatha and baby Alin,
and Dr. Amit Hochberg at the nursery before discharge