"Football was that security blanket for him. By extension, football became the core of everything we did. By passing it on to me I think he felt like he was giving me the kind of upbringing he wanted to give me even though we were in a foreign land. "Football was a connector to him with his past. He has passed away but wherever he is I hope it feels like those sacrifices he made were worthwhile. I don't want his sacrifices to mean, not nothing because I have had an enormously blessed life, but if I can make a difference and his name continues on. "Particularly, I guess, my father because of the football angle of it. It is a lesson that has never been lost on me that everything I do I do in honour of my parents. To understand that they are going to sacrifice their own happiness and in many respects their well-being for their children. "When I think about that it is such an enormous gift for somebody to give. Image: Ange Postecoglou believes the immigrant story is one that is often misunderstood They left all that behind because they wanted to provide an opportunity, I think, for their kids. I am convinced they would have had a better life, even as difficult as it was, in Greece, where all their family were, their social networks, the language, the life. "My mum and dad did not have a better life. They go to another country to provide opportunities for the next generation. That is not what the story of the immigrant is. I often hear people say that, well, you know, they emigrate to another country for a better life. "People sort of misinterpret the immigration story. "All those kind of things sort of cascades and in the end his life just sort of revolved around working and trying to make a living for us to survive rather than thrive pretty quickly. We shared a house with another family for a number of years. He was working day and night, my mum was working, we were at school, we were saving money to buy a house. "There was a never-ending struggle there to establish ourselves. Image: The Postecoglou family emigrated to Australia from Greece when Ange was five
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