He has, of course, looked up to other leaders, not only in his nigh-on two-decade playing career from youth level up, but also as he stepped into management, though the Aussie revealed that your own authenticity is as important as taking tips from renowned leaders.

He said: “The one thing about leadership that I’ve come to understand is that probably the most key ingredient is to be yourself.

“If you try to be someone else, to try to do it in a way that was successful or effective for somebody else, ultimately if that isn’t who you are, it’s not going to work.

“When you talk about leadership and leaders, people will follow people that they believe in and that only comes through the authenticity that you are who you are.

“But along the way you get exposed to different people and different types of leadership. You read, you look from afar and ultimately if you want to grab that sort of stuff, it should be only stuff that resonates with you, feels natural to you.

“Rather than trying to take, whether it’s a football manager like Sir Alex Ferguson, or a leader in industry or a political leader that you think, ‘Okay I really like the way he leads’, if you just try to copy and paste that, I just don’t think it’s going to work.

“It you use their words, it’s not going to work. People want to know that you’re genuine. There are many people along my journey that I’ve seen that I’ve really enjoyed their leadership, or it has affected me, but ultimately my own style is me, just who I am.”

And when asked if experience had altered his style of leadership over the years, he said: “Experience, life experience, professional experience all those kinds of things - absolutely. That’s where staying true to yourself becomes really important.

“Because instead of involving your leadership to what maybe the latest trends are, it’s better if you evolve alongside the experiences you’ve had and, inevitably in life, whatever you do, as long as you’re doing something, you’re going to get some things right and some things wrong.

“You are going to make mistakes along the way, if you’re prepared to acknowledge that and use those bumps in the road to better yourself, then I think you’ll be in a better place with time.

“So, I’m definitely a different type of leader today than I was when I first started 26 years ago, but the world’s changed as well so you need to be evolving with it.”

Ange Postecoglou - The team leader of the country’s leading team