Tottenham Hotspur -Baas Ange Postecoglou becomes emotional about family -tragedy after the Triumph Triumph -and reveals the price his wife has paid for his success
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Ange Postecoglou made his promise well to lead Tottenham To glory in his second year with the club like she Vesta Manchester United in the Europa League final – Then he revealed how his love for his deceased father helped him to encourage the greatest victory of his career.
The father of 59-year-old Jim died in 2018, when the Australian the Japanese side Yokohama F. Marinos but he was with him in Spirit in Spain on Wednesday evening.
“Finally, for my beautiful wife, my boys, my family my friends … you know, they are all my inspiration,” said an emotional postecoglou in his press conference after the game.
Asked for his father, he replied: ‘He is still with me, size. His voice is always in my head.
‘As I get older, I look in the mirror and sometimes see his face, which is frightening.
“He is always with me.

Ange Postecoglou scored the biggest victory of his life when he brought Tottenham to Europa League Glory with a 1-0 win over Manchester United (photo)

The Spurs -Baas then opened about how his deceased father Jim (depicted together) was with him for his career

Jim (photo on the left with his family) died in 2018 while Ange coached in Japan
‘My dear mother is in Greece with my sister and my nephews, I am sure they are in the clouds.
“It’s huge in Australia and in Greece. I have family in both countries, friends in both countries, and they have been the whole way for the trip. ‘
Postecoglou – whose wife Georgia and Zonen James, Max and Alexi have a low public profile – then opened how the criticism of him on the well -mentioned struggles of the club in the Premier League came this season.
“It is difficult because I am big enough and ugly enough to take what comes my way, but they are injured when people come to me and they pay the price, especially that closest to me, my beautiful family and my friends,” he said.
‘The will to defend me and I keep telling them, it is a small price to pay if you have this kind of nights.
‘I just see them tonight, and I know everyone in Australia … It is another special night that we share together.
‘Because I am a kind of frontman, it is easy for me to take responsibility, but they have no choice but to go for the ride.
“I see them there now on the field, smiling faces, I couldn’t be happier.”

The Spurs boss also spoke about the toll who took his high-profile career on his wife Georgia (depicted together) and their sons

Postecoglou was accompanied on the field in Spain by his wife and youngest sons Max and Alexi

Tottenham stars Sergio Reguilon (left) and James Maddison remember the Europa League Final Crowd that Ange was faithful to his word when he said he would win a trophy in his second year
Postecoglou also spoke about his father shortly after he got the job in Tottenham in 2023.
He told his wife that the “finally made it” when he was recruited to lead Celtic, but would like to share that moment with his father.
“He was a man of his generation, but he softened when he got older and I lasted so long to get here, but I had had it nice to have seen this, to get a glimpse of it,” Postecoglou told Mail Sport.
‘All those sacrifices he made, just to have one night to see his son on the touchline. All that stuff that we watched together in the middle of the night. Father and son. So to see me there.
Postecoglou says that he carries the teachings that his father gave him through his life while talking about the enormous influence he had on him – which included heavy love and made sure that he always had something to strive for.
“Yes, he would be proud, but he would have given me clips around the ear, size, because he did things wrong, because that was his way to compliment me,” he added. ‘You did well, but you could have made a few replacements or you could have played this way. That was just the relationship we had. It is not lost.
“One of my best friends lost his father a few weeks ago. We are now at that age. The only comfort words that I can give those guys is that I see him in me. I look in the mirror and see him.
“That is his expression or I say something and I know it is it. We wear them with us. I don’t doubt that. He is traveling, but it would have been nice to give him a bit of a glimpse of what his boy became. ‘
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