Tony Popovic is waiting for an offer from his former side Western Sydney Wanderers after his sour experience in Turkey.<\/p>\n
Popovic left\u00a0Western Sydney Wanderers on the eve of the A-League season in a shocking announcement<\/a>. He later plied his trade in Turkey\u2019s Super League to coach Karabukspor as a gateway to Europe.<\/p>\n However, the 44-year-old was sacked in last December after 10 defeats from 11 game.<\/p>\n With Popovic in Australia assessing his future,\u00a0Zeljko Kakac, the former assistant who followed Popovic out of Western Sydney Wanderers, revealed the future of his long-time friend.<\/p>\n \u201cPoppa is back in Sydney now and is waiting for the right opportunity to come along,” Kalac told SBS The World Game<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n Moreover, Kalac stated that\u00a0Popovic had been linked with the Sydney FC coaching post and still looking for a job overseas.<\/p>\n “I think Poppa will coach at the highest level … but he has to get past some difficult perceptions in places like Europe,” Kalac said.<\/p>\n \u201cOver there the opinion is \u2018you\u2019re Australian, what do you know about football?\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cWe live in a bubble here and all we have is the A-League and that doesn\u2019t count for much in Europe.<\/p>\n \u201cPoppa will just keep challenging himself to coach at the very best level that he\u2019s allowed to.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tony Popovic is waiting for an offer from his former side Western Sydney Wanderers after his sour experience in Turkey. Popovic left\u00a0Western Sydney Wanderers on the eve of the A-League season in a shocking announcement. He later plied his trade in Turkey\u2019s Super League to coach Karabukspor as a gateway to Europe. However, the 44-year-old was sacked in last December after 10 defeats from 11 game. With Popovic in Australia assessing his future,\u00a0Zeljko Kakac, the former assistant who followed Popovic out of Western Sydney Wanderers, revealed the future of his long-time friend. \u201cPoppa is back in Sydney now and is waiting for the right opportunity to come along,” Kalac told … Continue reading “Tony Popovic linked with Sydney FC coaching job”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":12052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[110,1377,568,272,273],"class_list":["post-12051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australia","tag-kalac","tag-sydney-fc","tag-tony-popovic","tag-western-sydney-wanderers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}