{"id":295942,"date":"2023-10-11T22:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T22:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=295942"},"modified":"2023-10-11T22:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T22:24:18","slug":"ange-postecoglou-slams-australias-failure-to-invest-into-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/ange-postecoglou-slams-australias-failure-to-invest-into-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou slams Australia&apos;s failure to invest into football"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ange Postecoglou slams Australia&#8217;s failure to invest into football&#8230; as the Spurs boss reveals he left the Socceroos after becoming &#8216;frustrated&#8217; by a lack of desire for change<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Australia will face England in a friendly match at Wembley on Friday night\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou is fearful over football&#8217;s progress in Australia<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ange Postecoglou fears Australia will never become a force in world football.<\/p>\n<p>The Tottenham boss walked out on the Socceroos after qualifying for the 2018 World Cup having decided there was neither the desire nor financial commitment to change attitudes to the sport and enable it to thrive alongside rugby league, rugby union and Aussie Rules football.<\/p>\n<p>He views his personal success since in Japan, Scotland and now England as proof that he was right to get out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There\u2019s a couple of things,\u2019 said Postecoglou, ahead of England\u2019s friendly against Australia at Wembley on Friday. \u2018One is the sporting landscape, where there\u2019s some strong codes there that have generationally dominated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There\u2019s Aussie Rules, the indigenous sport of Australia. It\u2019s unique to them and they take great pride in protecting it as their code. The rugby codes dominate. It\u2019s hard for football to make an impact in that space. The flipside is how global football is. If you want to make inroads, you\u2019re battling those odds. It\u2019s insurmountable. You can\u2019t make the necessary steps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/20\/76442893-12620461-image-a-44_1697051920849.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ange Postecoglou stepped down as Australia boss before the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/20\/76442985-12620461-image-a-45_1697052091393.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Australia made the last-16 of the 2022 World Cup but\u00a0Postecoglou fears for their progress\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/20\/76443061-12620461-image-a-46_1697052218179.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The dominance of rugby codes and Aussie rules have hindered football&#8217;s growth in the nation<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If I can compare that to Japan who also have the tyranny of distance and baseball\u2019s pretty strong, they plant a lot of resources into football and that\u2019s making an impact. I don\u2019t see Australia down that road.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Postecoglou\u2019s views are rooted in his four years as Australia boss from 2013 and seven years in charge of their youth teams. \u2018I don\u2019t,\u2019 said the 58-year-old when asked if he thinks his instant impact at Spurs might help. \u2018Maybe that\u2019s just me, I gave up that fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s a much easier space for me to live in because I was so frustrated for so long. One of my major drivers was to change football in Australia. I left because I felt I hadn\u2019t made an impact at all. That\u2019s easier for me to deal with than to think, \u201cMaybe I still can now with what I\u2019m doing\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I\u2019d prefer to think it\u2019s not going to happen. Look at what the Matildas did at the World Cup, unbelievable, but you still won\u2019t see an influx of resources to the game. I guarantee it. They\u2019ll build stadiums and other codes will use them.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Postecoglou was in charge when the Aussies made their last visit to England, a 2-1 defeat in Sunderland in May 2016. They were on their way to qualification for the World Cup but the manager quit before the finals in Russia to take over at Yokohama F Marinos in Japan. He is in no way tempted by the prospect of managing Australia again in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I walked away from a World Cup,\u2019 said Postecoglou. \u2018We qualified and I walked away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The reason I walked away was I just didn\u2019t enjoy what I was doing. It\u2019s not just doing the job and winning games of football. My higher purpose in Australia was to change the game. I just don\u2019t think that will happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It wasn\u2019t an easy decision, but I knew it was the right decision for where I saw the next stage of my career and if I had waited until after the World Cup, I\u2019ve no doubt I wouldn\u2019t be Spurs manager now.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/20\/76443131-12620461-image-a-47_1697052299626.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Postecoglou fears Australia will fail to invest after their success at the Women&#8217;s World Cup<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/20\/76443183-12620461-image-a-48_1697052391478.jpg\" height=\"447\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Spurs boss believes his strong start in the Premier League is unlikely to make an impact<\/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-12620461\/Ange-Postecoglou-Australias-football-Spurs-Socceroos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ange Postecoglou slams Australia&#8217;s failure to invest into football&#8230; 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