A team that offered hope... then, four months later, Hamas attacked Israel

[Getty Images]It was, says Ido Rakovsky, like reporting on "science fiction", rather than sport.Israel, whose senior team have qualified for the World Cup just once, had beaten global powerhouses Brazil in the quarter-finals of the under-20 version of the tournament.At the final whistle, the commentator covering the match for Israeli television vowed "you will tell of this night to your children, and they will tell it to your grandchildren".Plenty heard him. Five days later, the team's semi-fina