The Insane Rise of Ange Postecoglou

Ange wasn't blaming the players in that interview IMO, he was irritated with the youth systems within Australia which had those players ill-equipped to play at the required level to succeed.

Aussie, here. Very cool to see you make this video. His career is legitimately a FM journeyman save.

An important thing to note about Ange's "failures" with the U20's Australian team is that in 2005, Australia brokered a move from Oceania to Asian Football Confederation. This made qualification to youth world cups much more difficult

I'm a celtic fan. We're sad to see him go. He genuinely provided me with some of the best moments of my life as a fan and his fitbal was a joy to watch. We love the big the guy. If you hear a celtic fan say otherwise its just because we're hurting. Hes an all round top guy and honestly one of the best managers in the world. I hate tottenham but they've pinched a gem

Thanks for giving proper context to Ange's time in Brisbane, they were a joke before he took over, for obvious reasons. After he was done their squad became THE benchmark for any other title winning team in Australia, not just for winning, but for the style in which they did it. Anyone gets the time they should look up highlights of the grand final between the Mariners and Brisbane Zealand mentions, insane comeback and one of the best grand finals ever in the A-league.

What a crazy career he has. I love how he signed 6 Japanese guys for Celtic. It confirms what Bojan Krkić and Diego Forlan said that the Japanese league is much more competitive than it seems.

Dont think the video quiet highlights the mess at Celtic when Ange first came in. We lost/sold 18 first team players, lost our long term CEO, Hired a new one before he also randomly left 2 months later. Lost the whole recruitment and scouting team and just finished the previous COVID season 25 points behind Rangers. Ange also got hired after the start of pre season, rocked up by himself with no backroom team and went on to win a double against a strong rangers team that got to the Europa league final. He played some of the best football i have seen in my 30 years of going to celtic Park. Phenomenal manager

Crazy to think that my dad was ange postecoglu’s first signing for south melbourne and now ange is managing one of the biggest clubs in europe. Small world

I feel shite I just want him back at Celtic

Ange is a legend in that interview, tells it like it is. He isn’t blaming the players, he’s blaming the system they’re brought up in.

I’m a Melbourne Victory fan. He was with Melbourne for roughly a year and completely turned the teams fortunes around. Seeing Australia win a major international trophy was unreal too. Tottenham will 100% win something with Ange in charge. The man wins wherever he goes.

Spurs are lucky to get him I think. Exactly the type of manager they need right now, not one to paper over cracks but to completely rebuild from the ground up.

As a Celtic fan I'm absolutely gutted he's left and wished he'd stayed. That should be all the testament needed as to his meaning to the clubs he's managed.
Hail Hail and COYS

In my youth I wasn't as much into football as I am now. But, the spark for me for my love of football came on Orange Sunday. Coming from 2-0 down in Extra Time Ange got the Roar back in it and won the league in the shootout, against none other than current Australian Coach Graham Arnold, and current National Goalkeeper Mat Ryan. Tottenham, from every club that has ever had Ange grace them with his presence, we can assure you that greatness is coming.

As an Arsenal fan whose best mate is a Rangers fan, I'm terrified of Ange coming to Spurs! Despite the fact he isn't the big name like Nagelsmann, this guy has a ridiculous track record of making things that shouldn't work, work... Then there's Celtic who were a solid outfit who he improved. If he's given the freedom to make the changes he wants, Spurs could be a serious threat in the next couple of seasons!

Yo man been watching you for a while from glasgow. Big Celtic fan and in my lifetime I’ve never seen any manager like big ange. He really is something special and I think the English league and fans in all their entitlement have already written him off just as fans have done anywhere he has been. All you have to do is ask any Aussie or talk to any Scottish football fan and no matter what team they support, they all say ange is special. I just can’t wait to see him prove everyone else wrong once again. I do like these more long form story telling videos and since you seemed interested in Scottish football there isn’t many channels telling the stories around the historical battles and controversy that has plagued the Scottish league. Just a suggestion but keep doing what your doing man. Big love 🫡💚🤍

Spurs fan here, can’t say I was overly excited about Ange from the start but the more I hear and read about him I’m turning around.
He is just what we need right now. Here’s to the Aussie revolution in N17🇦🇺🇦🇺

“You’re assuming I was second choice, I might have been fifth choice, you never know” was when he was appointed for Celtic not spurs.

Interesting, you mentioned the 2-0 loss to MUFC in the world club thing - today, Ange's Spurs beat MUFC 2-0

As a Greek, I am very proud of what he was able to accomplish and I am very excited to see him manage in the prem!

So.. Ange is not a "yes man", he makes big changes in personnel initially and likes full control of transfers. Good luck with that at Spurs. That was really interesting, thanks Zealand.

As a Celtic fan I am absolutely gutted that he has gone.Would like to wish the big man all the best and hope it works out at spurs

Celtic fan here, absolutely love the man. Hope it goes better for him at spurs than it probably will do.

Ange did not look bad.
I was 10 and watched this live.
I was a huge fozzy fan at the time.
Ange stuck to his guns and called out Australia for not supporting football like ange deemed necessary to compete at a high level.
Ange was right.
Ange conducts his teams similar to that of a 4-3-3 tiki taka style.
Ange needs full control in this style of play. Kinda like pep. It’s pep way or it won’t work. Same with ange.
It’s high intensity very meticulous way of playing, very strict rules. Although pep has changed slightly and is not as obsessive as before. But ange is at his peak and is obsessive and ange will compete with anyone given the right tools and support. Ange could go toe to toe with anyone and manage any player and any team in the world.
Ange plays like any 2023 team should play. It’s no longer 2005.

I’m a Roar fan, and nothing will sum up his determination more than that first Championship with the Roar. We were down 2-0 in the 116th minute, and Ange still insisted on playing his way. The rest is history

Going back to the blow-up on air with Craig Forster, if you don't know the history of why we struggle at those youth tournaments it's easy to put the blame square on Ange. But it's no coincidence that as soon as our qualifying path changed from the easy Oceania route (where the Socceroos were a big fish in a small pond smashing island nations) to the much tougher Asian qualification route, our teams began to struggle to make the Youth World Cup.
This points to the issue that not only are there many much tougher teams in the Asian confederation, but those countries also were investing heavily in youth, unlike Australia. The Young Socceroos weren't playing regular minutes in the lead up to the tournament and it was widely known that Australia's youth development pathways needed improving.
You could have put the best coach in the world in charge of the young Socceroos back then and it's debatable whether they would have got better results

Got to love the Deportivo La Coruña away shirt. Much appreciated from a Depor fan!
For those of you interested, a save with Deportivo on FM is highly recommended. Spanish champions in 2000, Champions League semifinalists in 2004, now in the 3rd tier of Spanish football.

Was privileged enough to watch him manage first hand at Melbourne Victory. It's rare that Australian fans get to enjoy saying something like that. Of course, we never knew his career would explode like this, but we're so damn proud of him.

English man who has lived in South Melbourne for 5 years. He's an incredibly impressive manager, he'll do well at Spurs. There's a nice mural of him on the street next to mine.

As an Aussie, thank you for covering Ange's story. I hope he succeeds.

Just realised this the other week but when Stevie G was managing the Gers and Ange was managing Celtic they actually had encountered each other before that. Back in 2009 I believe it was, Stevie G was playing for Liverpool in a pre-season friendly in Melbourne against Melbourne Victory I think it was and the manager of the Victory was Ange.

As a Tottenham fan everything I read and see about this guy makes me more excited to see what he can accomplish. Lots of turmoil around the club right now but if the players he’ll have when the season starts can buy into his tactics, things may start to turn around. At the very least, playing exciting attacking football is a huge breath of fresh air after the last few years of boring, defensive football. Let’s go Big Ange!

Wasn’t blaming the players, was blaming the ideals of Aus soccer at the time where there was no plan for developing the youth team, it was all about qualification and who cared where the next generation of men’s team players came from. Craig Foster has come out since and apologised for the interview and being wrong, admitting Ange was right.
Also, Australia winning the Asian Cup is so underrated, easily the biggest achievement in Australian Football history. For all the great performances the Socceroos have recorded in their history, the Asian Cup campaign under Ange is the crowning glory. Big underdogs, we played great football and won it playing the way Ange envisioned football. He is a born champion and leader of men.

I think when a manager finds success of some sort at almost every job he's had, gotta tell you something about the man. I hope this is the big change Spurs needs....too many years of being a sad football fan

fun fact in lockdown for covid in japan ange postecoglu said he was grinding on football manager

Excellent vid Zealand! As a Hibs and Spurs fan Big Ange’s appointment really excites me considering the absolute pumping Celtic gave out to us over the past 2 years. Definitely been one of the best Celtic sides I’ve seen in a long time and a lot of that definitely goes down to Ange’s style of play.

Trying to explain to some of the Spur fans that they have the best coach to turn their club around is nearly as difficult as when Ange left the Australian Team just before the start of the World Cup. He is an enigma to the sport and your summary of Ange just goes to show how amazing his journey has been. It's excitement all the way. No shade of grey when playing Angeball. Can hardly wait to see what he will do with Tottenham Hotspur.

Impressively accurate. As an Aussie I’m really impressed with the level of detail

Most thorough video I've seen yet on Ange! I'm looking forward to see how he operates in the Premier League. The results may take some time to come..like more than one season and that could be testing, but his style and vision for the team will be clear. Will be interesting to see how his relationship with Levy works!

Im a Celtic fan and I love big Ange. Its heart breaking to see him go but he stuffed the team with amazing international talent such as Jota, Kyogo, O'Reilly Hatate, CVV, Starfelt and more and wiped the floor with our rivals. I honestly wish him the best of luck with Spurs going forward.

love these informative videos of you... continue them please for other teams/players/coaches

Spurs and Ange seems like a perfect fit. The club is in between the big 5 who are used to consistent trophy success and the rest who are all trying to consistently make it into Europe. While Ange is constantly disregarded because of where he comes from while employing tactics that are on par with some of the very best itw. Hopefully it clicks and Spurs become fun to watch again

My favourite KRplusr doing a video on my favourite manager. Thank you from Australia 🇦🇺

Coming from Australia, I think he's also influenced by coaches in other sports. Coaches from AFL (Malthouse say), Rugby League (Bennett for example), Rugby Union (Eddie Jones). I think that's played a role in his leadership and management style.

As a very happy Spurs supporting Melburnian - your pronunciation of Melbourne is refreshing as most Americans pronounce it MelBORN. Well researched!

This was incredible research. Thank you!

I hope Ange does well in England! Like really well. Let’s go Ange!

Amazing video, amazing storytelling! All the build up to explain how this guy can make history in Tottenham kept my ears on your voice (yes, I was dish washing after lunch, here in Brazil). Just subscribed for more! Keep up the excellent work!

The video spoilers during the ad section are a masterstroke. Great job as always👏

Now I am getting kinda scared of what Tottenham can accomplish with Ange

AUSTRALIA TO THE WORLD!!

Celtic fan here, miss the big man already 😭 he is a great manager

The big question mark for Ange is how he'll deal with Levy. Pochettino, Mourinho and Conte all wanted more control at Spurs, but found themselves constantly undermined by players going to Levy when things didn't go their way and signings being made that didn't suit the managers. Ange has clearly got his own ideas and knows players that will suit his system, but will Levy let him sell the deadwood or sign players who aren't big names?

Zea I love these segments, keep it up!

Love these kind of Zealand video

Frank Farina was charged for drink driving not drunk driving, he did not rock up to training drunk, its a very very big difference. His blood alcohol level was slightly over the legal limit and that is nowhere near the level it would have been if he was drunk. I vividly remember this incident and he was forced to resign due to reputation damage by bringing the club into disrepute.

Great vid mate, greetings from Melbourne Oz

Never watched your stuff before, but damn fantastic video. Incredible information and definitely a lot of research done. Great scripting too.

This is a great summary. Well
done 👌🏻

What an amazing upward journey! He won't stop until he's manager at Real Madrid by the sounds of it!

Always love your videos! You deserve so many more subscribers. The amount of research you put in, the whole narrative, sprinkled humor, is amazing.

Awesome video man. As an Aussie, we’re all very proud of Ange and hope he succeeds. This video perfectly captures his rise to managing in the premier league. You just gained a new subscriber!

Nice one. Cheers for a great vid!

It's funny to remember when ange was in my hometown club Panachaiki had critisized so much about his coached and now he is coaching tottenham.

this was so digestible and very informative I really enjoyed this and got to know Ange a lot better. his journey is pretty incredible. if his pattern continues, he may achieve the unachievable at Tottenham. fingers crossed

great vid, good knowledge and research

Thanks for the video, very good one 👏👏👏👏

This is a great well researched vid about Big Ange

I'd love you to do a follow up on how he's been doing at Spurs.
He's been a revelation so far, long may it continue :)

It wasn’t an “insane rise”, the guy was a legend wherever her went, and succeed wherever he went and stuck to his guns. They guy is a genius and works hard. He worked for it, and he was lucky enough to succeed

this was such a good video. beyond excited to see what ange can do for us 😄

Nice video mate - good research

i’ve been following him since he was a player at south melbourne, so i love seeing him succeed.

I’m a Spurs FC fan and what a great video !!! This has totally hyped up my excitement and enthusiasm for the coming season 23/24 … didn’t realise how good a manager and how successful Ange Postecoglou had been in his career … we are so lucky to have him and well happy with his appointment … I’ve good a really good feeling about this and excited to see Ange work his Oz Magic !!! COYS & Come On Postecoglou !!! 😁👍🏻

As a Tottenham fan every video I see of Ange make me love him even more but also get me more worried for what will happen if things go sideways but I hope thing go right Tottenham

Chelsea should have grabbed him when they looked at him, but the fans were exactly like that Celtic guy was, so we got Poch instead. Also that interview on the world game, he didn't back down, he was right and most managers would have been more 'diplomatic' but Ange didn't back down. Chelsea's biggest trouble right now is not scoring goals, seems to me that is the first thing Ange's teams get right.

I miss him already 😭 💚

Great video Z, thank you 👏🏼

Great Video Zealand!

You're becoming more like an american version of tifo , not that's anything bad , i like it , good work ,more like this please

enjoyed the video

Pretty creative way of making people stay for the ad section of the video with interesting non-spoiler images of the rest of the video!

if you want to know more background story.. The chairman of Panachaiki FC in 2008 was a millionaire from Australia but with Greek roots and that how he brought postecoglou in Panachaiki. But in the next season the chairman resigned and the new chairman (most disgusting chairman in Greece) force Postecoglou to play other players than the Postecoglou wanted.. So that how Postecoglou resigned and came back to Australia. The rest is history.
I can't believe that we had such a brilliant manager.. All the Panachaiki fans we are proud of Ange

This was a great rundown of Big Ange. Well done. I’ve been coached by him and also follow his career like a fan boy.

Best Ange vid ever...thank you champion..

Very good video love this channel

I know I’m late to this video but this is just class.
Great work. :)

Great video 🎉

This is what spurs need. Someone who will rip the rotten core out of spurs and isn't afraid to replace people

Beautiful shirt. I also love deportivo la coruna. A lot of my family lives there.

another great video!!

Wow you did a pretty good job with Ferenc Puskás pronunciation! But the full name is pronounced Ferents Pushkawsh just for future reference. Love your videos 🇭🇺❤

Very good Video, really liking this format.

Great research. Nice video!

Thanks for covering my favourite coach and idol

“Only three years coaching in Europe” is one way of putting it; “One of the few coaches to win championships in three continents” is another…

The craziest part of all of this is Ference Puskas managing South Melbourne?!

this guy is a genius for adding spoliers while ads were running so that watch time wouldn't skip over the ad im dead

Great vid Z

that Asian Cup win will always have one of my strangest ever memories of soccer. our winger Robbie Kruse broke his leg and the ref gave him a yellow card for simulation.