{"id":295816,"date":"2023-12-03T08:44:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T08:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=295816"},"modified":"2023-12-03T08:44:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T08:44:43","slug":"pep-guardiola-sparked-ange-postecoglous-premier-league-dream-after-key-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/pep-guardiola-sparked-ange-postecoglous-premier-league-dream-after-key-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola sparked Ange Postecoglou’s Premier League dream after key meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ange Postecoglou says \u2018we\u2019ll get through it\u2019 after Tottenham are beaten again<\/h3>\n

Pep Guardiola might have put Ange Postecoglou on his path to the Premier League after a chance meeting in Japan. It is claimed that Guardiola bumped into Celtic majority shareholder Dermot Desmond in 2021 and recommended the now-Tottenham boss.<\/p>\n

Postecoglou is unsure whether the story is true but discussed his first encounter with Guardiola. The Australian was managing Japanese outfit Yokohama F Marinos when they hosted a mid-season friendly against Guardiola\u2019s Manchester City side in 2019.<\/p>\n

The J League team enjoyed a remarkable 58 per cent of possession against City, something not many Premier League sides have achieved against the perennial champions. Guardiola was left impressed by his counterpart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey came over and it was fantastic for us,\u201d Postecoglou, who faces City with Spurs on Sunday, now recounts to Four Four Two Magazine. \u201cAgainst the best in the world, we wanted to play the creative football that we played on a weekly basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

The story goes that Guardiola subsequently met Celtic owner Desmond two years later. Postecoglou was interviewed by the Scot and was offered the job soon after their conversation.<\/p>\n

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Asked if he knows about Guardiola\u2019s impact on his journey, the 58-year-old continued: \u201cI\u2019m not sure. You know what it\u2019s like \u2013 success has a million fathers, so who knows what the actual story was?<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it was Desmond who reached out to me. I chatted to him and literally straight after that conversation, he made his decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat other background work they did, I\u2019m not really sure, but I was delighted he saw something in me to give me the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n