Sead Haksabanovic used to run around as a kid pretending to be Ronaldinho in the Champions League. Now the Celtic star is savouring the opportunity of sampling the big time for real as part of the Parkhead Euro bid.
Haksabanovic could make a third Group F appearance against RB Leipzig having featured from the bench in the opener against Real Madrid and also making the starting line-up on night two for the draw with Shakhtar Donetsk in Poland.
Many of Postecoglou’s young guns are sampling the rarefied atmosphere of the elite competition and he’s amongst that fresh unit. Just as he was as an enthusiastic youngster, the Montenegro international was back at a local park running around again in the summer as he trained alone waiting patiently for a switch out of Russian club Rubin Kazan.