Did you know that the Hungarian legendary striker Ferenc Puskas was here in Australia coaching the South Melbourne Hellas Football Club in the 1990’s? Without a word of English. That very same Puskas after whom the FIFA Goalscoring trophy is named. That's like Messi or Ronaldo coming to coach and no one knowing about it.
And who was his chauffeur and captain? None other than Ange Postecoglou, now the iconic manager of Tottenham Hotspur – the first Australian ever to manage a EPL team. Ange learned at the feet of a legend.
Filmmaker Tony Wilson joins us on Red Card for Mummy & Other Soccer Stories to tell this remarkable tale captured in “Ange and The Boss” ; how international soccer, the world game, is so totally part of ours in Australia. It's a cracker.
Soccer was crucial in weaving Australia’s multicultural tapestry that we are today. It gave immigrants fleeing war torn countries clubs to be part of and a sense of belonging at a time when they were treated as "wogs". Heather Reid – pioneer sports administrator and icon in Womens' soccer , is an invaluable assist in telling the story of growing up in the Snowy Mountains, which wasn’t just building the food bowl of Australia, but the foundations of the sport that connects us truly to the world. Wogball Schmogball. Soccer was the game upon which the foundations of multicultural Australia were built.
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