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IT'S among the biggest jobs in Australian sport, so how did the key personalities in Australian football react to the appointment of Ange Postecoglou as Socceroos job?
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FFA CHAIRMAN FRANK LOWY
- on Ange's appointment
Friday: Melbourne Victory v Brisbane, Fox Sports 1 HD, 7.30pm(EDT)
Saturday: Central Coast v Adelaide, 5.30pm; Sydney v Western Sydney, 7.30pm, FS1HD
Sunday: Wellington v Newcastle, 3pm, Perth v Melbourne Heart, 5pm, FS1HD
Kick Off on Friday night, 6.30, with special guest Michael Cockerill.
Shootout on Sunday night, 7pm, with Craig Moore and Tony Popovic.
Sunday: El Clasico, Barcelona v Real Madrid, 2.55am, FS2HD
Monday: Atletico Madrid v Real Betis, 6.55am, FS3HD
Saturday night: Crystal Palace v Arsenal, 10.30pm, FS1HD
Manchester United v Stoke, 12.50am, FS1 HD
Viewers' Choice: Norwich v Cardiff; Liverpool v West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa v Everton.
Southampton v Fulham, 3.30am, FS1HD
Sunday night/Monday morning: Sunderland v Newcastle, 12.30am, FS1HD
Chelsea v Manchester City, 2.50am, FS1HD
Tottenham v Hull, 2.50am, FS2HD
Swansea v West Ham United, 2.50am, FS3HD
We have the faith in him. We know that he's a good guy. He's a good guy. He's the right person for us at this stage of our development. I think the last 10 years or so, we've had coaches from overseas. That was the time for that then. Now is the time for an Australian coach. This is a day that will be remembered for quite some time, and it has come to fruition. All I really want to do is wish him luck and hope that he succeeds the way he wants to succeed. His expectations of himself are very high. Of course we also expect it. But he has (those expectations) of himself.
- on Victory's role
I understand. If I was in their position I would have been uptight about it. They've had him for a year and a half or thereabouts and of course it's the beginning of the season, and I thank the chairman Anthony (Di Pietro), the board, and the Melbourne Victory for finally releasing him to us. It was difficult for them to come to the decision but they came to the right decision because the country comes first.
FFA CHIEF EXECUTIVE DAVID GALLOP
- on Ange's appointment
It's an exciting day for Australian football, for the Socceroos, for the FFA. We know that the Socceroos are the team that represent this country in all its diversity and all its sporting passion. We have today a coach starting his journey who we believe can unite our players to perform at the highest level and unite our nation behind those players. Our technical experts and his own peers have indicated Ange is the right man for the job. But as the chairman has said it's certainly a bonus for us that he's an Australian. And he's on a mission with us to make this sport the most popular in the country.
SOCCEROOS COACH ANGE POSTECOGLOU
- on getting the job
It's a tremendous honour to be sitting here. It would be remiss of me not to acknowledge that it's been a tough couple of weeks but I'm truly honoured to be given this position. I'd like to thank Frank Lowy and his board, David Gallop and his senior management for their faith in appointing me. And I'd like to think the Melbourne Victory board and particularly the chairman Anthony Di Pietro. They've been very supportive of me and I'll be eternally grateful for their decision to release me from my contract ... I've already been on the record as saying that when your country calls you answer it, and I found this too compelling for me personally and also as a challenge, to knock back at this stage.
- on Aussies v internationals
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I hope that I'm sitting here because I'm the best man for the job. I've seen the A-League grow over the years and I've got no doubt the likes of Graham Arnold and Tony Popovic are coaches of international standard. They work hard every week and you can see the growth of the A-League. I've tested myself every week and whatever pre-conceptions if I can break down a few - and I've said that when my tenure's up if we've got 10 A-League coaches going for the position I think that's fantastic. I've definitely been part of the growth of the game and particularly the last three years it's been acknowledged that part of that is the work of the coaches in the A-League. And it's been great to be a part of that. And it's been Australians that have been leading that. If there are those pre-conceptions, I'm happy to break them down but it's not what drives me.
- on the players
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Always I like to make sure I make informed decisions. I won't be going in there with any pre-conceptions. I've got my ideas about how I want the team to play. And I've got my ideas about the environment and structure, and I'm very big on that, and how the organisation's structured. But I'm not going in there with a target or a hit list of people, it's not the way I work. And sometimes people surprise you. My job is, I walk in there and I want to get the best out of every player that's available. I certainly don't discount anyone from that. But will there be changes? Of course there will. I've got my own way of doing things and along the way there'll be changes to personnel and the way we operate.
- on 2014 World Cup
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If it was about damage limitation, I probably wouldn't be sitting here to be honest. I think there's a challenge there. The World Cup is an exciting time and when it comes around, I know there's a lot of people who are excited about watching the national team play. Our goal between now and then is to make sure we restore some hope. I'm not discounting anything we do between now and then - every game is important, the game against Costa Rica is important. It's only a few weeks away but it's important ... I'm not looking to secure my reputation ... I'm here because I think I can improve our world standing and between now and the World Cup we've got a chance to do that and during the World Cup we've got a chance to do that.
- on 2015 Asian Cup
It's a great chance to host a major tournament and hopefully to do well. Our national team hasn't raised (major) silverware. It would be great for that to happen.
- on why now's the right time
I've had experience at this. Thirteen years ago I was interviewed for the Socceroos job when Frank Farina got it. I was one of four candidates, and to be totally honest I was praying I wouldn't get it because it was such an enormous task. I ended up getting the Young Socceroos job and what it did enable me to do was I was there with Farina in his early days and I saw how tough it was. You learn from that. You learn how to deal with things at that level. It's a different style of coaching but as I said I had seven years of it and I'm much better equipped today to handle that than I was 15 years ago. I learnt a lot in that time and my observation, and I had Graham Arnold with me for a lot of that time as well, I think both of us learnt a hell of a lot about international football in that time. Whether we were successful or not is for other people to judge but as a learning experience I've always said that was my PhD in coaching.
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- on Australia's youth
Look I've got enormous belief in our young players. I mean a lot of the players who are currently there I've had something to do with. I've coached them there in my time as Young Socceroos coach, and a lot of the younger ones I've seen come through in the A-League, and I'm really excited about. The twofold challenge of the job is - in the short term to make sure we've got the best possible team but also I think we need to expose some of our young players to international football and find out who can and can't play at that level. I've never been let down by throwing young players in. You never really find out until you give them the opportunity. I'm planning to do that. We don't have a lot of games between now and the WOrld Cup but even a training camp is an opportunity to expose a young person to a different kind of football, to a different level of football. As I said, what I've always found out is they never let you down but sometimes they surprise you. I really believe we might be able to unearth one or two young players who can have a major impact on our side in the years to come.
- on negative perception of Socceroos
I've been a little bit frustrated with the language used about the Socceroos to do with players not being good enough, the leagues they play in not being good enough - that's never been what our national team's been about. Regardless of the state of the game, and the state of the game's been a lot worse than it is now, our national team has always been something that's taken priority and they've never taken a backward step. When I was growing up we were a part time league but when the national team played we watched them with pride. The language coming out was that they were ready to take on the world. I think that's really important, whether it's players or coaches. I don't know what it was, whether we were building people's hopes up and then not coming through and then paying a price for it. But I don't think that's what the national team's about. I really want the language coming out of the set-up to reflect that we love football and, more importantly, that we love our nation.
FOX SPORTS FOOTBALL COMMENTATOR MARK BOSNICH
- on Ange's appointment
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I think the most important thing is that it's the best person for the job at the time. Just so people don't start screaming what about this and that around the world - what I'm saying is the appointment fits the cloth for around here in Australian football. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't personally think it would matter if we had Sir Alex Ferguson or Jose Mourinho for Brazil (2014 World Cup), I don't think we'll progress past the first round, but I say to Ange, prove me wrong and I'll be the first one to hold my hand up and say great, because that will benefit Australian football. I think right now, at this time, he's the best person for the job.
- on five year deal
It makes perfect sense. We've got the Asian Cup in 2015 and we've got the World Cup in Russia in 2018, which is what the contract is about. What they didn't stipulate is the payout clause. If it's a one-year payout clause, then technically it's a one-year deal. That would be very interesting to find out if we ever do find out the terms of that, but you've got to give a man an opportunity to build. Ange talked about not regenerating but to keep moving on. I think our golden generation is coming towards an end. Mark Schwarzer has said already he'd retire after Brazil. And there's always a turnover of players.
- on support staff
I think it's imperative for him to be able to pick his own staff. In this business, even at club level when coaches come in and they're forced to work with certain people, it's hard. You have to have people around you that you trust implicitly and I think that will be vital for Ange if he's to have success in the job.
- on the senior players
In the back of his mind he'll have things that he thinks but he'll want to go and see it for himself. There's nothing pre-determined in life, and especially in football. He's going to want to see if they're playing week in, week out at club level, what kind of condition they're in, and how they're gelling from a playing perspective and off the pitch as well.
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