Celtic’s way of playing football is a style that many sides have found challenging to come up against. Domestically, it has helped us towards the possibility of winning another treble and in Europe, whilst we didn’t progress how we would have hoped in the Champions League, Ange’s style did cause problems for our opponents.
So you would think other football managers would look to Ange and try and learn from the Celtic manager after his style of football has brought success at every club he has managed.
It’s certainly impressed the Scotland National rugby team manager Gregor Townsend as the national boss visited Lennoxtown to meet Ange Postecoglou as he prepares his side for the rugby World Cup in France this year.
And it seems that the visit may help Scotland’s next World Cup campaign as Townsend reveals a meeting he had with the Celtic boss.
Townsend said [The Sun], “Meeting Ange was good. I watched the team train and they were very welcoming.
“John Kennedy, Gavin Strachan and Harry Kewell had lunch with me.
“Ange had met me before training and then I went to his office for a couple of hours’ chat about coaching philosophy but his coaching journey too.
“We had a lot of mutual experiences. He has coached in Japan and we’d had the World Cup in Japan in the same area, Yokohama, where he was coaching.
“He knew a lot of Australian rugby coaches that I know well.
“So it was great just getting his philosophy on when he comes to a new club and what he’s looking for.
“It was good, you pick up things, even picking things from their training – maybe things in the back of your mind get re-ignited.
“And I believe you take similarities away.
“They’ve got a game that they believe in and we’ve got a game that we believe in as well. It’s high-paced attack which means that the guys have to be skilful, fit, and accurate.
“When you can get those things right, you can cause the opposition problems.”
Ange Postecoglou has himself admitted in the past that he likes to meet coaches from other sporting disciplines to get an insight into how they approach different challenges in their respective sports.
The Celtic manager is always looking to learn. Even at 57 years old, Ange is still looking to expand his knowledge. It really is a touch of class from Ange Postecoglou. In a week that was dominated by the build-up to yesterday’s Glasgow Derby, he still took the time out to speak to help another fellow coach.
And now for Ange, it’s full focus on the last of the SPFL fixtures before the Scottish Cup Final in June where he hopes to land Celtic their eighth domestic treble.
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