Only one of Son Heung-min and Harry Kane’s votes allowed the Tottenham manager to win The Best FIFA Men’s Coach title, despite the fact that both of them have worked with Ange Postecoglou. Pep Guardiola received the award on Monday night in recognition of his treble-winning performance with Manchester City in the previous campaign.
On the original five-manager shortlist, Postecoglou was named with Guardiola, Luciano Spalletti, Simone Inzaghi, and Xavi. Son, who has been raving about the former Celtic boss ever since he moved to north London, gave him the highest vote.
Kane only ranked Postecoglou third, after Guardiola and Spalletti, despite the fact that he had been working with him for a few weeks prior to transferring to Bayern Munich in the summer. The four other managers on the shortlist are not managers that the captain of England has ever played for.
In 2021, he was on the verge of joining Guardiola at City when Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy virtually killed the deal by pinning him with a £200 million price tag.
On the original five-manager shortlist, Postecoglou was named with Guardiola, Luciano Spalletti, Simone Inzaghi, and Xavi. Son, who has been raving about the former Celtic boss ever since he moved to north London, gave him the highest vote.
Kane only ranked Postecoglou third, after Guardiola and Spalletti, despite the fact that he had been working with him for a few weeks prior to transferring to Bayern Munich in the summer. The four other managers on the shortlist are not managers that the captain of England has ever played for.
In 2021, he was on the verge of joining Guardiola at City when Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy virtually killed the deal by pinning him with a £200 million price tag.
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With City’s Champions League, Premier League, and FA Cup victories last season, Guardiola was a lock to earn The Best FIFA Men’s Coach title. Once the shortlist was down to three, he defeated Spalletti and Inzaghi to take first place.
The other two notable winners of the evening were Lionel Messi and Aitana Bonmati, who took home the Men’s and Women’s Player titles. Despite fighting his way out of Tottenham in the summer, Kane continued to talk highly of Postecoglou’s influence in October as he reflected on his former team’s explosive start to the season. However, it seems that he and Son don’t agree on whether the Spurs manager should be at the top of the hierarchy.
