Ange Postecoglou relects on long journey as he sets about Spurs rebuild
Ange Postecoglou has travelled around the world in order to reach the Premier League, which is any ambitious manager's ultimate destination, so maybe it's no surprise he has met some of the game's foremost minds, albeit in some of the most unlikely places.
Looking out from Tottenham's state-of-the-art training centre in north London after a week at the helm of one of English football's sleeping giants, the Greece-born Australian reflected on his journey from a schoolboy in Melbourne watching Spurs win the FA Cup, to taking tips from Alex Ferguson in Rio de Janeiro and Pep Guardiola in Japan.
He says travelling is in his blood, his kids have grown up away from their native country, and like that most Australian of animals the shark, he needs to keep moving in order to survive.
Swapping Glasgow for London this summer has been his most recent move, taking over a tough gig at Tottenham after two successful seasons with Celtic. Previously he managed at club and international level in Australia, with Yokohama in Japan and then in Glasgow, always with success, and regularly going out on a high, as he did when Celtic won their fifth trophy under him last month.
“For me to come from where I’ve come from and be sitting here today, I needed to have that instinct inside me, to know when to move on because I’ve had to be faultless in my career to get to this point.
“That’s because no one’s going to rate an Australian manager, are they? So if I had any significant failures along the way I was never going to get here.
“Part of that process is knowing that I need to keep moving to be at my best. I’ve got two young ones and they’ve lived abroad their whole life in four different countries.
“We made the decision as a family that wherever
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