Puskas and Postecoglou: The Legacy of Ange Ball
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
The Overlap
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the latest episode of The Overlap’s football history podcast, It Was What It Was.
This week, Jonathan Wilson and Rob Draper explore the connection between Ferenc Puskas and Ange Postecoglou, and how the Hungarian idol influenced the Australian coach.
Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ferenc Puskas’s post-playing career saw him manage across the world, including stints in Spain, America, Greece, Saudi Arabia, and Australia. It was in Australia where Puskas, the manager, coached Postecoglou, the player, at South Melbourne Hellas.
Jonathan and Rob detail Ange Postecoglou’s life, including the influence of his Greek father, and how Puskás's coaching philosophy left a lasting impact on him. Discover how these experiences shaped Postecoglou’s approach to management and contributed to his success.
As Postecoglou gets underway in his second season with Tottenham Hotspur, join us to uncover the enduring legacy of Ferenc Puskas on one of today’s most innovative coaches.
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| 0:00.0 | I had the shittiest car, a beat-up Dats in 200B, and I'm driving the world's greatest player. |
| 0:12.9 | I mean, if I'd thought about it, I would have spoken to the club and told them to get me a better car, |
| 0:18.0 | or he could have asked for a better car. |
| 0:20.0 | But driving one of the world's greatest |
| 0:21.4 | players in that car, that was bloody embarrassing. I remember once we got a flat on the freeway |
| 0:27.1 | and I'm having to jack the car up to change the tire and I'm going, boss, do you mind? |
| 0:32.6 | Get now because he was a big guy at that time and he goes, no, I'm not going anywhere. And when I think |
| 0:39.9 | about it now, I would have done things differently. I would have paid for a taxi for the man, |
| 0:43.8 | but I loved the way he thought about life and I loved his outlook and football. His teams just |
| 0:48.6 | wanted to outscore the opposition. It's one of those bizarre things in life at the time you couldn't |
| 0:52.9 | rationalise it. And even today, I can't. How has this happened? How has it ended up? But it ended up being pivotal for me. I'm Jonathan Wilson. I'm with Rob Draper. That was Rob Draper. And he was being Ange Poster Cogley talking about his often bizarre experiences in Australia playing under Furnish Pushcash. Today, and it was what it was, we would be looking back on the three seasons |
| 1:13.9 | Pushcass spent managing South Melbourne, and the impact that had on the future Tottenham |
| 1:18.3 | manager. And it really was an extraordinary coming together. Football in Australia at the time |
| 1:23.2 | was not well developed. So when Craig Johnson, a proud Aussie who won five lead to helps of Liverpool, |
| 1:28.5 | was asked why he never played for Australia, |
| 1:30.5 | his reply was, it's for exactly the same reason that you wouldn't serve for England. |
| 1:34.1 | It just wasn't worth it. |
| 1:35.9 | And yet there you have one of the greatest players of all time |
| 1:38.8 | working as a club manager in Australia. |
| 1:43.1 | But to give some idea of just how great Pushkast was, |
| 1:46.1 | let's start with Sir Alex Ferguson. |
| 1:48.6 | Yeah, let's start with Sir Alex Ferguson |
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