Filip Sebo has candidly reflected on his time at Rangers 20 years after joining the Ibrox club for £1.8million from Austria Vienna.
Sebo struggled in Glasgow, scoring just twice in 33 appearances and departing only two years after his arrival.
Now, after retiring from football, he's become a dedicated triathlete, finishing first in the 40-44 age group of the 2025 Europe Triathlon XTERRA Cross Championships.
Sebo also finished first in the 35-39 age group of the 2019 Staroturansky Triathlon.
"Regarding Rangers - now it is completely fine for me; I can talk about it easily," Sebo said on the Inside the Pressure podcast. "I know that I was not ready for that club, for that transfer, or for everything around it.
"The pressure from the people and all of that - I was not able, I would not say to cope with it, but to accept it. I was not Filip Sebo on the pitch in the way I had been at Austria Vienna, where I had won over those 12,000 people, all of Austria, and everything was great.
"But the moment I went out onto the pitch in Glasgow, in Scotland, and saw that there were 55,000 people, what happened in my head was that I cared about what those people thought of me. I could not detach myself from it.
"After a bad pass, I could not make a good pass. I could not put it out of my mind. If I had a bad performance, or did not score at the weekend, I could not forget it on Monday. I was still thinking about it on the Friday before the next match.
"At that time, sports psychology or the mental side of being a footballer was not so accessible, and it was not easy to talk to somebody about it - especially when you are young and abroad. I could not process it myself, and that is why I struggled a little in Scotland and why I lasted there only briefly"
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Sebo added, "If I had to say it - and people often ask me where it was best - then I can say one thing: if I had known then, with Scotland and with Vienna, how the whole thing would turn out, I probably would have stayed at Austria Vienna and would not have moved to Glasgow Rangers.
"But it is also like this: you are on holiday in the summer, you dream about English football, you know you are good enough for it; your season has gone well, you have won the double, you were the player of the season, you are fit - if not now, then when? Then you get a phone call: ‘Filip, tomorrow we fly to Glasgow for medical tests - you are going to Rangers.’ You are 20 or 21.
"In that moment, there is no question. That is why you play football. That is why you exist. You watch the Champions League on television, the door opens, and you are supposed to say, ‘It is not the time yet’?
"It is easy for me to say now. I would still say that stopping at 27 was the right decision, but that jump - I was doing brilliantly in Vienna. If something else had come along, I might have stayed, but Glasgow came. "I do not regret it; I am grateful. It was incredible. I played with Pršo, I was in the same dressing room as him, and from there I went to France, to the first division, for three years. Everything happened as it should; it is completely fine."
