Ange Postecoglou
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Podcast Appearances
I haven't had an easy ride.
It's taken me 27, 28 years to get here and I love that.
I love the fact that I've had... But for some people, it's like, well, hold on a sec.
You haven't earned your stripes, so to speak, to be able to, say, take a job like Tottenham.
Jesse Marsh and Bradley.
Yeah, those fellas.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't think anyone else outside of sort of Europe, South America has coached in the Premier League or in the English First Division.
So there is a little bit of... And look, I understand that.
Who's going to... I come from Australia.
I said, you know...
I know about cricket and I know about rugby and kangaroos or whatever else you want to call it.
But football's not supposed to... You know, it's almost like they take it as an affront, an insult that somebody from Australia is going to come and coach in our top league.
No, I'm sorry, you haven't earned that right.
So there is a bit of that.
And there still is, I think, a little bit of that.
But again, I don't take that personally.
Well, you know, people don't know what they don't know.
And I take it, like I said, for me, I think it's a strength because I've worked my way up as I keep... I try...
literally from the factory floor to get to where I am now and I take pride in it.