{"id":296116,"date":"2023-11-24T17:23:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=296116"},"modified":"2023-11-24T17:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T17:23:56","slug":"postecoglou-its-frustrating-to-be-dismissed-for-being-australian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/postecoglou-its-frustrating-to-be-dismissed-for-being-australian\/","title":{"rendered":"Postecoglou: &apos;It&apos;s frustrating&apos; to be dismissed for being Australian"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>EXCLUSIVE: Ange Postecoglou claims he&#8217;s been &#8216;frustrated&#8217; with being dismissed for his Australian background &#8211; as he reflects on the &#8216;burden&#8217; of potential failure shutting the door on coaches from the region<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>58-year-old sat down exclusively with IAKO&#8217;s Ian Ladyman and Chris Sutton\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>PLUS: Head coach &#8216;wishes his late father could have seen his Spurs success&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Inside Ange&#8217;s Spurs: Listen to It&#8217;s All Kicking Off on how he transformed the club\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ange Postecoglou has shared his frustration with being dismissed for his Australian background, and claimed that if he had struggled at Celtic, it might have &#8216;shut the door&#8217; for Australian coaches in the future in his big interview with Mail Sport&#8217;s Chris Sutton and Ian Ladyman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Antipodean coach has won three consecutive Premier League Manager of the Month awards following his move to Tottenham this summer, and has overseen the club&#8217;s fast start to sit fourth in the table ahead of the international break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But despite his success thus far in England &#8211; and his dominance with Celtic in Scotland &#8211; Postecoglou believes his career was previously underrated due to his background.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I never used it as a drive to prove people wrong,&#8217; Postecoglou said of his nationality. &#8216;But I did get frustrated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Because I knew with the all the work I had done and the experience I had, I thought I deserved an opportunity and really the one reason I wasn\u2019t getting one was because I was Australian.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/24\/16\/78204075-12787963-image-a-28_1700841930262.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ange Postecoglou sat down with Mail Sport&#8217;s Chris Sutton (pictured) and Ian Ladyman to discuss his spellbinding start at Tottenham<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/24\/16\/78204079-12787963-image-a-29_1700841934755.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The ex-Celtic coach has won three Premier League Manager of the Month awards on the trot<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/24\/16\/78204223-12787963-image-m-36_1700842086482.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>But Postecoglou stressed his frustration at being pigeonholed in the past for his Aussie heritage (pictured as head coach of Melbourne Victory in 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And all the success I\u2019d had, people were very dismissive about it. I didn\u2019t think it was fair because whatever competition you win, it\u2019s still a competition right? You still gotta be the first team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Even Celtic gets dismissed a bit. &#8220;Oh it\u2019s Celtic\u2026you are to supposed to win every year\u2026&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So I haven\u2019t used it to prove people wrong but I enjoy the fact I am here, because hopefully it breaks some stereotypes and let&#8217;s people open their minds to the fact I am here for no other reason than my work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am not here because of my playing career, my profile or my connections. I am here because of my work, Postecoglou added. &#8216;There are a lot more people like me who you could maybe look at or look beyond the normal sort of avenues you go down to find coaches and managers.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After his playing career was prematurely ended by a knee injury, the 58-year-old plied his trade as a manager in his homeland before eventually coaching the Socceroos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His transition into club football came with a move to Japan&#8217;s Yokohama F. Marinos in 2018, where he guided the side to their first J-League title in 15 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Celtic, Postecoglou saw in a prodigious period of success during which the Glasgow side won two Scottish Premierships, two league cups, and the Scottish Cup in just two season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Postecoglou is adamant that rather than being an outlier, his passion for the game is inline with a national obsession with the game.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/24\/16\/78204115-12787963-image-a-31_1700841948298.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>After rising through the ranks in Australia, Postecoglou was named Socceroos head coach<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/24\/16\/78204117-12787963-image-a-32_1700841952061.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A transition into club coaching saw him transform the fortunes of Japan&#8217;s Yokohama F. Marinos<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/24\/16\/78204101-12787963-image-a-33_1700841956052.jpg\" height=\"412\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Postecoglou enjoyed two superlative seasons at Celtic that saw them almost entirely dominant<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/24\/16\/78204447-12787963-image-a-37_1700842487487.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old wants to be seen on equal footing with his peers despite his background<\/p>\n<p>As such, he recognises the &#8216;burden&#8217; of being identified as an &#8216;Australian coach&#8217; and the potential for his career &#8211; and potential failures &#8211; to provide a blueprint for others.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;(My success) is something for the whole of Asia, not just Australia. The whole region is passionate about football,&#8217; Postecoglou added. &#8216;If (Tottenham) was a disaster or Celtic hadn\u2019t worked out, to open the door for another Australian would have been very, very difficult.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;All the frustrations I have felt I would have effectively passed on to another three generations. So there is a burden there, you know, but you are hoping now that people will look at things differently and part of me also wanted to shed that tag that I am Australian coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am just a manager who has worked his way up to be here like any other. When they remove that Australian tag and just want to talk about me as a manager that\u2019s when I think people will be seeing me on an equal footing to everyone else.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12787963\/Ange-Postecoglou-Australia-Tottenham.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>EXCLUSIVE: Ange Postecoglou claims he&#8217;s been &#8216;frustrated&#8217; with being dismissed for his Australian background &#8211; 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