The English Premier League-Club Tottenham Hotspur after a number of cancellations and eleven intensive weeks of looking for a trainer, we finally found what we were looking for. Ange Postecoglou is the name of the chosen one who “Spurs“To make it competitive again after a horror season. Nevertheless, the burning question should be on the tongue of the general public: Who is that anyway?
A quick look at her vita reveals immediately: Ange Postecoglou is not one of the young, up-and-coming talented trainers pushing into business. Rather, the 57-year-old Australian, who was born in Greece, brings with him concentrated international experience from very different coaching positions.
The son of Greek immigrants, Postecoglou first set foot on Australian soil at the age of five. His parents worked hard to be able to offer the family a future in the completely foreign country. The weekly visits to the games of a local football club that had been founded by Greek immigrants in Australia brought variety to everyday life, which was characterized by existential fears. Rather, they weaved a bond between father and son.
“Football was a connection to his past for him”Postecoglou recalled on “Skysports” how much football meant to his father: “By passing it on to me, he felt like he was giving me the kind of education he wanted me to have, even though we were in a foreign country. So football became the core of everything we did.”
Everything Postecoglou touches turns to gold
After laying the foundations week after week, the spurred on Postecoglou made it into the youth team a little later South Melbourne F.C and later even became Australian champions with the club before a serious injury forced him to hang up his football boots at the age of 27.
Ange Postecoglou embarked on the coaching career, actually managing – as a young rising talent – to become head coach on the sidelines of his boyhood club and taking the club to Australia’s top flight and the Australian Cup to three trophies in subsequent seasons.
His further tenures in various Australian clubs, but also with the Australian Football Association, were always characterized by one characteristic: the success that followed – if he was given the time and trust.
It’s like an investment in the future, says sports show expert Thomas Broich, who works under Postecoglou at the Australian club Brisbane Roar experienced a second spring in his career: “It’s always tough at the beginning and it looks like it’s not going to work out. But at some point that turning point was always reached and then his teams played everything to the ground.”
Sports show expert Thomas Broich
Most recently, Postecoglou went to the Scottish series champion Celtic Football Club immortal, his first European coaching position. While he started his tenure in 2021 with three defeats from the first seven league games, he closed his chapter in Glasgow last season by winning the Scottish FA Cups and thus made the eighth triple in the club’s history perfect.
The clocks tick differently in England
So now Tottenham Hotspur. Truly not a simple English patch. Great coaches like José Mourinho or most recently Antonio Conte have already failed here. Conte, who announced his farewell himself at a memorable press conference: “I see selfish players, I see players who don’t want to help each other and who don’t put their hearts into it.”.
So now the first Australian coach in Premier League history dares to step into England’s top flight. Thomas Broich believes that Postecoglou will be successful “He’s a great boss. Very authoritative, very demanding, but honest and straight forward. He’s also a fantastic storyteller. He takes his boys on a journey. You believe things are possible, you want an adventure. “
It is almost certain that it will be an adventure. Likewise, coaches in the Premier League don’t get much time until their chair is sawn if they don’t succeed. But for the risk Tottenham are taking with this signing to be worthwhile, everyone at the club, including the players and the sporting leadership, must believe in the playing culture that Ange Postecoglou wants to instill. Only then can the journey be a successful one.