New Perth Glory coach Tony Popovic has expressed his target of leading the club to a period of sustained success.<\/p>\n
Last weekend,\u00a0Perth Glory unveiled former Western Sydney Wanderers boss Tony Popovic as their new coach<\/a> for the next three A-League seasons.<\/p>\n Glory were a powerhouse in the now-defunct NSL, but they are yet to win any silverware in 13 seasons of A-League.<\/p>\n Meanwhile,\u00a0Popovic had enjoyed his glorious days at Wanderers as he led the club to the AFC Champions League title in 2014, and also three A-League grand final appearances.<\/p>\n In an interview with SBS The World Games<\/a>, the 44-year-old could not hide his excitement with his upcoming spell with Perth.<\/p>\n “We want to win things,” Popovic said.<\/p>\n “We’re not going to put a time frame on when that will happen. But we want to be a team that can be challenging for honours in year one, and why not?<\/p>\n “I don’t think the team in the first year will be exactly what I want the team to be.<\/p>\n “But I’m not going to make an excuse and say, ‘OK, let’s wipe the first year and say we need time to put this into place’.<\/p>\n “I believe we can still be successful in the first year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Perth Glory coach Tony Popovic has expressed his target of leading the club to a period of sustained success. Last weekend,\u00a0Perth Glory unveiled former Western Sydney Wanderers boss Tony Popovic as their new coach for the next three A-League seasons. Glory were a powerhouse in the now-defunct NSL, but they are yet to win any silverware in 13 seasons of A-League. Meanwhile,\u00a0Popovic had enjoyed his glorious days at Wanderers as he led the club to the AFC Champions League title in 2014, and also three A-League grand final appearances. In an interview with SBS The World Games, the 44-year-old could not hide his excitement with his upcoming spell with … Continue reading “Tony Popovic: I want to win silverwares with Perth Glory”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":13309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[380,217,272,273],"class_list":["post-13308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-a-league","tag-perth-glory","tag-tony-popovic","tag-western-sydney-wanderers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308","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=13308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}