History: The 1920s
1921
- Convention of the "Juedische Turnerschaft" at Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia decides to terminate its activities and to establish a new head organization under the name "Maccabi World Union"
- Foundation of Maccabi Territorial Organizations in Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Yugoslavia
1924
- A delegation from Maccabi Eretz Yisrael conducts informal talks with the president of the International Olympic Committee at the Paris Olympics and, following directions received, Maccabi initiates the set up of all the Israeli Sports Federations as preliminary step for establishment of the Olympic Committee in Eretz Yisrael (Palestine)
- Sensational victory of "Hakoah Vienna" in London over West Ham United, 5:0
- First visit of "Hakoah" to Eretz Yisrael
- Gold Medal for Elias Katz of "Maccabi Turku" (Finland) at the Olympic Games in Paris
- First Australian Inter-athletic Contest (later known as "Australian Sports Carnival")
- Foundation of "Hakoah Copenhagen" (Denmark)
- First reports of Jewish sports activities in Mexico City
1925
- Participation of Maccabi Eretz Yisrael at the European Maccabi Games in Vienna
- Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team visits Poland
1926
- Foundation of "Hebraica Buenos Aires"
1927
- Maccabi Soccer Team: "Hahashmonai, Jerusalem" visits Egypt and plays against local clubs in Cairo and Alexandria
- Foundation of "Maccabi Sao Paulo" (Brazil)
1928
- Foundation of "Eretz Yisrael" (Palestine) Football Association and its affiliation to FIFA
- Foundation of "Zevulon" - Israeli sea scouts, which in due course becomes a member of Maccabi Israel
- First "Hapoel" Mass Display in Tel Aviv (Up until 1926, when Hapoel is created as the central organization for Labor-Sports, Maccabi is the only Sports Organization in Israel)
1929
- Congress of Maccabi World Union at Maehrisch Ostrau (Czechoslovakia)
- Resolution proposed by Yosef Yekutieli to hold "Jewish Olympic games" (to be called "Maccabiah") in Eretz Yisrael is accepted, the first to be held in Tel Aviv in 1932
- Affiliation of Maccabi Argentina and Maccabi France to Maccabi World Union
- Foundation Maccabi Tzair
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What a great group of people this Team was to coach and get to know. You all managed to take the best of each other's character and embrace it as your own. While I am proud of all of you, I hope, more importantly, that you are proud of yourselves. Each of you performed great and you represented yourselves and the USA with pride, class and dignity. Great job!
Seth D. Feldman
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