Ange Postecoglou is the toast of the football world, taking an unbeaten Tottenham to its best ever start to a Premier League campaign.
But the Australian had admitted he would have never made it to the Premier League in the first place had he continued on as the national team’s head coach.Speaking to reporters ahead of Australia’s friendly against England on Wembley on Saturday, a reflective Postecoglou had a sobering reality check when touching on the Matildas’ recent World Cup success.The Telegraph UK
“Where it is right now it’s where it’s been many times. It’s what happens from now on,” he said at the time. And when asked why that was the case before this week’s friendly, Postecoglou pointed towards the traditional domination of other sports such as Australian rules football and rugby.“One of them is obviously the sporting landscape, where there’s some pretty strong codes there that have generationally dominated the landscape.
“If I can compare that to a country like Japan, who also have the tyranny of distance and baseball’s pretty strong, they plant a lot of resources into football and you can see that’s making an impact. I don’t see Australia down that road.” “One of my major drivers for doing what I did was to do that — to change football in Australia and that’s the reason I left.
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