Dario Vidosic, Brighton’s new supervisor, has voiced a ‘large thanks’ to the opposite Australian on the helm of a top-flight workforce in England for serving to him safe his new function.
The 37-year-old Vidosic and Premier League Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou have a ‘lengthy historical past’ as a participant and coach that stretches again to 2006.
As the previous Socceroos star settled into his new job in England’s Ladies’s Tremendous League with Brighton – nicknamed the Seagulls due to their coastal location – following a 14-year enjoying profession, he was fast to thank Postecoglou for relieving the transition.
‘Look I’ve to present a giant shout-out to Ange, he helped with my references,’ Brighton’s new coach instructed his first press convention on Friday.
‘His title, and never simply in England however in Australia too, to have that kind of reference and that acknowledgement from somebody like him who’s flying the flag for Australian soccer, displaying what you are able to do.
‘So I’ve to say a large thanks to him and I’ll attempt to attain out to him. He is a implausible coach and what he is doing in Tottenham and what he is in a position to obtain in his first season, and never simply in England, however ever since he kind of stepped into that managerial function.
‘He was my coach within the youthful nationwide workforce, so there is a lengthy historical past there of participant to educate and now hopefully I can get a bit little bit of mentorship from coach to educate, that may be superior.’
The pair first crossed paths within the under-20s Australian facet again in 2006, after which once more within the Socceroos a number of years later.
Croatian-born Vidosic was nearing the top of his time with the Socceroos when Postecoglou took over the senior inexperienced and gold outfit.
Ange Postecoglou (left) and Dario Vidosic (proper) throughout their days teaching collectively on the Brisbane Roar within the Australian A-League
Underneath Holger Osieck, the playmaker didn’t obtain a nationwide workforce call-up for 2 years till lastly, in 2013 he turned the German supervisor’s go-to choice in midfield off the bench.
Soccer Australia fired Osieck in October 2013 after back-to-back 6-0 losses and Postecoglou took over. He promptly named the ex-A-League Males’s star in his 2014 World Cup squad.
Now the previous Melbourne Metropolis coach finds himself within the dugout at Brighton on a three-year deal, having hung up his skilled enjoying boots again in 2020.
The previous Western Sydney Wanderer will hyperlink up with one of many 12 Aussies within the WSL at his new membership, Matilda Charlize Rule.
Rule will likely be hoping her second marketing campaign runs smoother than her first after a hip harm in December sidelined her for the remainder of the 2023/24 competitors.
Vidosic, who used to educate towards Rule throughout her stint at Sydney FC, mentioned he was enthusiastic about getting caught into pre-season with Rule and his different stars.
‘I crossed paths along with her yesterday, so it was it was good to see a fellow Aussie in the home,’ he instructed Optus Sport.
‘In Australia it was all the time competing towards her within the Melbourne Metropolis v Sydney FC battles that we have had over the previous couple of years. It is good to see a well-recognized face and a very good footballer over right here, one other younger expertise.’
Vidosic and Postecoglou have an extended historical past collectively courting again to his enjoying days for the Socceroos when Ange was in cost
There will likely be one familar face at coaching for Vidosic, with Matilda Charlize Rule (proper) already established at Brighton
‘We have spoken about a couple of of these younger skills and she or he’s one other a kind of. So trying ahead to teaching her and attending to know her higher as properly. And never simply her however everybody else within the squad as properly.’
Vidosic turns into the primary Australian since Joe Montemurro departed Arsenal in mid-2021 to handle within the league, following within the Lyon coach’s footsteps from Metropolis’s ALW program to the WSL.
However he turned to a well-recognized Kiwi face to study extra about his new membership. He requested his former A-League Ladies’s star Rebekah Stott, who performed for Brighton throughout two stints, about what to anticipate.
‘I used to be attempting to maintain it a secret however I did not know that these guys right here had been in all probability speaking to Stotty all alongside. So she in all probability wasn’t telling me a lot, I wasn’t telling her a lot,’ Vidosic laughed.
‘However after I had that chat along with her, every thing that I’ve kind of seen within the first three, 4 days, she echoed all that.
‘I believe the largest factor that I’ve seen in these few days with out getting on the pitches is the individuals within the place. They’re all fantastic individuals, I’ve felt actually, actually welcomed despite the fact that I am so far-off from residence, I felt at residence.
‘She mentioned I might like it right here and she or he was spot on.’
