Ange Postecoglou is back at home, but he is a long way from where he started. It’s been a ride like no other in Australian sport.
As Ange Postecoglou’s face gazed down at him from the MCG scoreboard screen and 300 business folk hung on his every slightly jet-lagged word, he ruminated on how it was to be serenaded by Rod Stewart in Glasgow and“It’s fair to say my life has changed a bit,” he said with characteristic dry humour. “I used to go to the pub and watch Cold Chisel play when I was here.”Metamorphosis is true for him on the field as well as off.
he speaks to and for one of the world’s biggest clubs in arguably the world’s highest-profile football competitionHe feels the eyeballs on him. “That the biggest difference,” he said. “To me, it’s still football. The fundamentals are the same. But there’s a hell of a lot more scrutiny and attention. You can’t avoid it. It’s on the telly 24/7. It’s everywhere you look. You need to embrace that side of it.
when Postecoglou was appointed at Celtic is worth looking up still. “I still get the ‘who’s this bloke?’,” Postecoglou said. “I don’t mind that. People have underestimated me my whole career. You get used to it. I used to get it here.”The currency in Postecoglou’s magic carpet ride of a career is the only one in sport guaranteed to be honoured: Success.
“In about a half-an-hour spell, we lost pretty much a quarter of our team for the next two to three months. After that game, I knew from then it was going to be a tough grind. But we were never out of the top five the whole year.” Postecoglou admits that a big-league manager never clocks off. “There’s no work-life balance. That’s the reality of it,” he said. “I find it easy to switch off whilst still doing what I’m doing - watch a game of football, watch other sports with my coach’s head on. I feel the need to be engaged all the time. It’s my most comfortable space.”He paid tribute to his wife Georgia, who was the marketing manager at South Melbourne when they met, for fortifying him.
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