OPINION: 'Maybe I'm better where I am': No regrets for Postecoglou over abrupt Socceroos exit
"It wasn't just the players, but the supporters and the people at the club who saw we were building something that was going to be exciting," he says of his first season, in which Yokohama finished 12th.
"At no stage did I feel like I was losing people, although it probably helped we had a good cup run [Yokohama lost in the final]." While the language barriers made communication in that first season difficult, it also had its advantages. If TV football show panellists were second-guessing his methods or calling for his head as they had in Australia, he could not understand them.
Such is Yokohama's impact on Japanese football, there could be an impending irony to Postecoglou's presence in Japan. At the same time one of his closest friendsthe former Socceroos coach is having an impact on the Socceroos' greatest regional rival. "The [Japan] national team has shown a lot of curiosity about the way we're playing and I've encouraged them that they certainly have the players, the infrastructure and the will to be really successful in World Cups," he says.
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