Speaking ahead of what is Celtic’s final Champions League home clash this season, Ange Postecoglou has blasted ‘glass ceiling’ claims.
The former Socceroos boss believes his career up until now proves differently having had a background in European football that has led him to managing Celtic in Europe’s elite footballing competition.
Results haven’t went the Scottish champions way as of yet in the competition but the Hoops are still in with a shout of qualifying for Europe after Christmas, but is is crucial that they get their first win of the campaign this evening against Shakhtar Donetsk.
It finished all square when both clubs met in Warsaw last month with this being the only point that Celtic have managed in the group so far after back to back losses against Bundesliga outfit RB Leipzig and matchday one defeat to Real Madrid.
This group of players were inexperienced heading into the competition and will have learn a lot during the games with it being the clubs first crack at the tournament in five years.
Postecoglou was upbeat and positive about where he sees Celtic in the competition and has dismissed any idea that the Hoops have hit a glass ceiling.
“You talk about glass ceilings, well what are the chances of an Australian coach managing in the Champions League?”, said Ange Postecoglou as quoted by Football Scotland.
“I’ve broken through so many glass ceilings that I know that they don’t really exist – they only exist in your own ambitions – whether that is Europa League or Champions League.
“My thing is to say that if a football club of our size goes out there and plays football that everyone talks about, irrespective of the opposition, wouldn’t that be a great thing?
“A club like Celtic is playing the biggest clubs in the world and people are talking about how we are playing, I think there is something in that.
“With that, you obviously want success and you want to win games of football, but I think there is great merit in doing things that people don’t expect you to do.
“And why not for Scottish clubs? Why not for us? I see no reason why we can’t do it.”
The Hoops head into this match after three terrific wins and will be hoping to carry a bit of that momentum into the game with no such run being able to be put together since the start of the season domestically.
