Harry Kewell: ‘I understood everything about Ange in two days. That's how clear his messages are’
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 26 March 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Last Wednesday, at Celtic’s Lennoxtown training complex, I caught up with the mighty Harry Kewell.
In part two of our fascinating conversation, we hear how a message from Ange Postecoglou sold Harry on a coaching role at Celtic – despite Ange having once rejected Harry for the Socceroos squad. Harry is brilliant at describing how Ange’s combination of simple messaging and human decency influences his footballers. And Harry himself is no slouch at getting inside players’ heads. Indeed, World Cup star Daizen Maeda said he’s the best educative coach he’s worked with.
Also in part two: How Klopp’s Liverpool can come good again.
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| 0:00.0 | This is David Moyes. This is Yapstam. This is Ryan Fraser. |
| 0:03.2 | This is Troy Deney. This is Adam Lallana. This is your club and you are listening to the big interview with Graham Hunter. Look we made the leap now Harry, because training in general, particularly elite clubs, is so different now than what you described at leads, what you came through. |
| 0:32.0 | An environment that helped you that you've patently enjoyed |
| 0:35.4 | you've still spoken about with great affection and enjoyment. But the whole idea now is that |
| 0:42.1 | football is probably correctly get treated like race horses. It's everything |
| 0:46.6 | to make them fine-tuned, mentally ready. There will be flit- are not will be there are flare-ups at |
| 0:54.5 | training grounds and bounce matches and all that that's fine. However that has is |
| 1:00.4 | almost a hundred and eighty-degree picture from what you described to where you're working now where it's |
| 1:07.1 | evident I'm going to have to praise you I'm sorry but we've seen my Ida talking, I mean the words he uses for your ability to teach and convince |
| 1:19.4 | and show, which are phenomenal traits for a coach to have. |
| 1:23.4 | He talks about coming to Celtic and didn't see any chances for him at all. |
| 1:27.7 | And he talks about you stopping saying, |
| 1:30.0 | this is what you like, this is what you should be doing. |
| 1:32.4 | Talking about individual meetings, |
| 1:34.1 | accompany inter training, don't worry about making mistakes, |
| 1:38.2 | just keep trying. |
| 1:39.3 | That process, that sorry, |
| 1:41.8 | that sort of professorial teaching process, which I think is akin to teaching your kid |
| 1:48.0 | maths and lockdown where it's like detail and focus and That's so far away from what you grew up in, isn't it? |
| 1:58.0 | Not personally with me because when I grew up I had a coach similar so he broke everything down for me and I don't know whether it's |
| 2:06.0 | kind of installed in me so for example striking a ball I can teach someone that's never |
| 2:15.0 | struck a ball before I could teach him how to strike a ball. And now I could just say go on a striker ball, then I could break it down. |
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