{"id":460242,"date":"2023-09-22T20:37:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=460242"},"modified":"2023-09-22T20:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T16:37:21","slug":"postecoglou-admits-he-was-the-last-man-standing-for-the-job","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/postecoglou-admits-he-was-the-last-man-standing-for-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Postecoglou admits he was the &#8220;last man standing&#8221; for the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spurs head coach Ange Postecoglou honestly shared that he never thought his Premier League opportunity would come and that he was the &#8220;last man standing&#8221; in the summer selection process for the Tottenham managerial position.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s been a long road to the top for Ange Postecoglou, but now he&#8217;s living his dream \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2pup6v9SXf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2pup6v9SXf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCMOTD\/status\/1705099608597430360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Since changing Celtic with Tottenham, the Australian has taken the team to the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place in the league with a very beautiful attacking style of football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never thought I would work in the Premier League, to be honest, not because of what I can achieve, just because no one was looking at me,&#8221; the manager shared with the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I became late in my career, coaching 1 of the most famous teams in the world &#8211; Celtic and 1 of the biggest football sides in the world in Tottenham. It has come late; it just took a president to look beyond the norm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Postecoglou also added that he was in a refugee camp but played for Australia after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurs head coach Ange Postecoglou honestly shared that he never thought his Premier League opportunity would come and that he was the &#8220;last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":460243,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19708,17317,18466],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[19709,17886,18467],"acf":{"announce":"Ange claimed he was the \"last man standing\" for the Tottenham job.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460245,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460242\/revisions\/460245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460242"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=460242"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=460242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}