It’s fair to say John Maisano has put in football’s hard yards over the years.
Seemingly destined for the top echelons of the European game when he first left Australia for Serie A side Atalanta as a teenager, Maisano ended up doing three years grafting in Greenock where made himself a mainstay at Morton.
It might not have given him the glamorous lifestyle he had been hoping for when he first packed his bags for the other side of the world. But these years of experience on the road have allowed him to know a player when he sees one. Which is one reason why he’s spent the last three years sharpening his eye with the City Group as a coach back at Melbourne City. And why he can say with some confidence that Marco Tilio has everything required to become the A-League’s next smash hit export, now that Celtic appear to be luring him towards Glasgow’s east end.
