Former Australia midfielder Ross Aloisi, currently a coach with A League club Adelaide United, has gone public about the possibility of him coming to Glasgow to be part of new Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou’s backroom staff.
The 48-year-old, capped three times for the Socceroos, played in Switzerland, France, Austria and Italy during a playing career which spanned nearly two decades. He also turned out for Australia in Scotland during the Under-16 World Cup in 1989.
He shares the same agency as Postecoglou and told Australian TV programme The Real Football Show this weekend that he’s keen on working under him at Lennoxtown next season.
“All I can really tell you is that I spoke to my agent, Frank Trimboli, two days ago, but that’s about it,” he admitted. “I know Ange reasonably well and have kept in contact with him over the years as well. But I think my focus is the task in hand and that’s a game against Sydney FC at the weekend.
“Everyone wants to work with Ange. I spent a bit of time with him up in Brisbane when he first started coaching the Brisbane Roar, the first season that they won the championship.
"Look, everyone wants to go to Europe and coach, but the reality is that there are obstacles that you have to cross and it’s not my main focus at the moment.
"Like I said, I would love, like everyone else, to go to Europe and coach but we have a big game coming up and we want to give it our best shot.”
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