Remarkable ANSTUSCOLGOU history of son of immigrants, Puska's influence, Celtic success, Tottenham Move and Net Worth

The former Celtic boss, who started life as immigrants in Australia

He said he always gained a trophy in his second season and now Poseteclou has the chance to support his own claim.

Tottenham will compete against Manchester United in the final of the Europa League after seeing the Norwegian Outfit Bodo/Glimt 5-1 in a total of 5-1 in the half year.

All eggs of the Aussies were stacked into this special basket, with Spurs struggling in the English Premier League.

Now Postecoglou can deliver a first trophy for the North London Club in 17 years. Celtic fans know well that he has no stranger for success, but his journey to the top of football management had the most modest beginnings.

Record sport Looks at what has shaped since his childhood, the influence of his father and his life outside the shelter.

Early life

Postecoglous story does not start in a shelter or on a training field. It started in Athens in the shadow of a military junta in 1965. In his book “Change The Game: Football in Australia” he wrote: “I was born in Athens, Greece in 1965. My father had a pretty successful business. He came from a number of dealers and furniture manufacturers. For me it was a rather pain -free and middle road existence.

“But around 1969 the government began when the government and its companies – including my parents – began to watch agitation somewhere else.

His parents, Dimitris and Voula, grabbed their lives and climbed into a ship to Australia, driven by little more than hope. Postecoglou was five years old when she arrived in Melbourne, a city that would shape him as well as football.

Life was not easy. His father worked for long hours, rarely at home, his mother fought with a new language and culture. Football became the only place where Young felt like at home. South Melbourne Hellas – a club that was built by Greek immigrants – was his introduction to the game, the place where he first took a ball and later won two national titles as a manager.

Even now, decades later, he struggles to forget his parents' victims. “I don't feel like working every day,” he said in an interview with The times. “I have the feeling of leading a dream that was founded by the victim of other people, especially my parents.

“I look at myself as a 55-year-old man and just can't believe what my parents have been through. What they had gone through to bring a young family around the world halfway, on a ship that brings us to a country for 30 days in which they do not speak the language. They don't know a soul, they have no house, they have no jobs.

“People say that they go to another country for a better life. My parents had no better life, they went to Australia to give me the opportunity to live a better life.

Father's influence

It was his father's love for the game, which was characterized on a young Postecoglou, especially if the time was limited with his old man because he had invested the hours for the deployment.

But looking at games in the early hours, as well as football thought and how he wanted his teams to play. He said: “I only remember that my father works hard. He was gone for work before eating my breakfast and coming home at night, eating to dinner, sitting on the couch and falling asleep and doing the same the next day.

“The only time that I ever saw a joy in my father was when we went to football on a Sunday.

“My childhood sat next to him at three in the morning and we looked at football from this side of the world and he always points to the entertainers and the teams that scored goals. He would say: 'Look at him, look at this team and that was in my subconscious and when I became a manager that I was the kind of teams I wanted to produce.

“He is not with us now, he died a few years ago, but he is in my head. I know that and every time my team plays, I sometimes have an ugly 1-0 victory and I know what he says: 'Not celebrating because that was what was crap.

Puskas worship

Puskas was one of the favorites from Postecoglous SR. When the Hungarian legend finally became his son's coach, it was surreal for.

“When I talk about influences in my career and in my life, my father was obviously the greatest influence of everyone.

“But Puskas was up there regarding other major influences. I was really lucky enough to spend two or three years with him. When he came to Australia, his English was not great, but he had brought Panathinaikos to the European Cup final in Wembley, so that his Greek was decent.

“Back then I was captain of the club and I almost acted like his interpreter. He even wanted me to pick him up from home. So I picked him up in my little car and it was embarrassing that one of the world's biggest football players was sitting in a small datsun!

“We would spend hours together and for me this time was invaluable. He taught me a lot about humility to be such a big man. If they treat people well, regardless of what they did in their lives, they give everything for them. He did it as a team environment. We all would literally die for him – we did not want to disappoint him.

“We were successful, we won a championship with him and this is one of my favorite photo colleagues – who hold up the trophy next to him.”

Family life

Postecoglou does not make charm. He is dull, focused and rarely for small talk – something that his wife Georgia knows better than anyone else. When she met in South Melbourne in the nineties, where she was the club's marketing manager and he was the trainer, she was not impressed.

“He is not charismatic, he is not a charm,” Georgia once admitted in the ABC documentation The Australian history: the age of. “I didn't understand why people respected him so much.”

But it didn't take long for her to realize why. “Only then did I have to understand him as a person,” she added.

They were tall and deep together – through ventilation, through continents and moments when everything felt like it could fall apart. Postecoglou never hid the fact that he may not have made it without her in the toughest years.

Net value

Postecoglous career was a slow combustion-no big money movements until he earned them. His first coaching jobs in Australia hardly reported the bills, and when he was released as a national youth coach, he had to move in with his mother -in -law to make ends meet.

Now he is one of the best paid managers in England. His registered salary in Tottenham is £ 5 million a year, a considerable step from his Celtic days

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