Ange Postecoglou is the toast of the football world, taking an unbeaten Tottenham to its best ever start to a Premier League campaign.
But the Australian had admitted he would have never made it to the Premier League in the first place had he continued on as the national team’s head coach.
Speaking to reporters ahead of Australia’s friendly against England on Wembley on Saturday, a reflective Postecoglou had a sobering reality check when touching on the Matildas’ recent World Cup success.
It didn’t make an impact back there and that was kind of my frustration,” he told media, including The Telegraph UK, speaking on his 2015 AFC Asian Cup win in Australia.
I don’t think that anything they can achieve… when you look at what the Matildas did at the World Cup, unbelievable but you still won’t see an influx of resources to the game. You won’t. I guarantee it.
I don’t think that anything they can achieve… when you look at what the Matildas did at the World Cup, unbelievable but you still won’t see an influx of resources to the game. You won’t. I guarantee it.
They’ll build stadiums and other codes will use them. I just don’t think the nation as a whole has that inside them to understand you can make an impact on the world of football but it requires a kind of nationalistic approach that I just don’t think Australians — at their core are really interested in.
It is consistent with what Postecoglou told reporters ahead of the World Cup earlier this year, warning what truly mattered was whether the game would “take advantage” of strong results.
Where it is right now it’s where it’s been many times. It’s what happens from now on,” he said at the time.
Australian football has been pretty good, always, at making a mark. Sonny mentioned 2015 – we won the Asian Cup and barely a ripple.
.It’s about the game taking advantage of that and making an indelible footprint in the sporting landscape here, which we know is always challenging.”
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