Ange Postecoglou
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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So...
Football was very much, you know, really not a community.
It was semi-pro and it turned into kind of... It was the first code that went national in Australia because Australia is a massive country, as you know.
So before Aussie rules, before rugby, football went national, but it was very much driven by the migrant communities.
So it was limited to that.
Like, so-called mainstream Australia just didn't accept football.
It was the sport of the immigrant, basically.
So it wasn't...
It wasn't professional.
It wasn't all-encompassing.
So if you were passionate about it like I was, I became, we had to sort of...
and try and find any kind of content we could from this side of the world to sustain us, because it just wasn't enough.
It wasn't in the papers, it wasn't on TV.
So you tried to build it, but it wasn't.
It's always battled against the dominance of the other sports.
It kind of never sort of made the advances, but I think sort of around Viduka, Timmy, Cale, Harry, those kind of guys were coming through.
They got really organised at institute level.
What Australia's always been good at, it's always produced champion sportsmen in every sport, right?
So it's always had good development programs and they started a program in sort of Canberra, Australian Institute of Sport, and