The Overseas Athlete

Filip Krušlin: 20 Years, Five Countries, and Knowing When the End Is Near Filip is 37, in his 20th professional season, and he wakes up most mornings feeling 57. He signed with Cibona Zagreb at 18 and has played across Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Italy ...

In September 2024, Travis McAvene won a championship in Mexico and was named both Coach of the Year and Executive of the Year. This is his second time on the show. The first covered 26 years and eight countries. This one picks up from the title in Play...

Christopher Grant: Inside the Cambodian Premier League Club That Has Won Three Titles in a Row. Christopher Grant is the GM of Svay Rieng FC. Three Cambodian league titles in a row. A 52,000-seat AFC Challenge League final sold out at home. A direct sl...

Chloe Logarzo: The 4-Day Contract Window, the Empty Apartment in Sweden, and the Three Pillars That Hold a Career Together. Chloe Logarzo signed her first professional contract with four days to pack a bag and fly out. Thirteen years and five countries...

John Iredale: The Eredivisie Signing That Almost Missed the Window, and the Twelve-Thousand-Euro Bill That Followed. John Iredale signed his first professional contract thirty minutes before the transfer window closed. Eight years later he has played i...

Jack Hindle: The Conference Title, the WhatsApp to Malaysia, and the Knee That Sent Him Home Jack Hindle is the only English footballer to ever play professionally in Malaysia. He got there on a message from a Spanish coach he had never met. Jack grew ...

Jori Davis: 13 Years Abroad, Nine Countries, and the Platform She Built to Fix What Agents Don't Jori Davis arrived in Israel at 21 with no local bank account, and her American card got frozen the day she landed. Jori grew up in New Orleans and graduat...

Matt Krog: Image Rights, Morality Clauses, and the Contract Terms Every Athlete Should Read Before Signing Matt Krog once reviewed a sponsorship contract where the athlete gave up their image rights for 15 years on a four-year deal. Matt is an Australi...

Bridie Kennedy-Hopoate: Hip Surgery at 16, a Cash Contract in Egypt, and What Pro Basketball Actually Looks Like Bridie Kennedy-Hopoate signed her first pro contract in Egypt without knowing Egypt was in Africa. Bridie grew up in Brisbane and started b...

Travis McAvene: 26 Years, Eight Countries, and What Overseas Basketball Actually Pays Travis McAvene got his first overseas head coaching job in Taiwan because Kobe Bryant's dad backed out at the last minute. Travis started coaching right out of NAIA c...

The Friday-Night Call That Sent a Queenslander to Norwegian Football. Cameron Crestani was 25 and had started to make peace with football not being his career. He had come through Brisbane Roar's youth system, played a handful of Asian Champions League...

From Leicester City to Cambodia, and the Training Ground With Dogs on It. Alistair Heath left a senior academy role at Leicester City to take his first first-team job. The club was Angkor Tiger FC in the Cambodian Premier League. The first training gro...

Stefan Mauk: The Buyout Clause, the Half-Time Hook, and a Career Built Through the Dutch Year Stefan Mauk didn't make a state team until he was fourteen. As a teenager he signed his first professional contract with Melbourne Heart. In his early twentie...

Unleashing the Beast: Matt's Journey to Dominating the World Long Drive Tour. Mathew Stubbs was working corporate and playing plus-one handicap amateur golf on the Gold Coast. Twelve months later he was on the World Long Drive Tour in Mesquite, Nevada, ...

Third String to Goalkeeper of the Year: What Seven Months in Australia Did for Hillary Beall. Hillary Beall grew up in California, played five years at the University of Michigan, and got her rights picked up by Racing Louisville in the NWSL. She was t...

Four Countries, One Career: Patrick Flottmann on What Nobody Tells You About Playing in AsiaPatrick Flottmann signed with Air Force United in Thai League 2 at 21. No agent pushed the deal. Sydney FC's CEO made a call, knew a guy, and asked if Patrick w...

Matt Ward left England with £1,500 on an overdraft. By the time the taxi from Taipei airport reached his first apartment, he was watching the meter tick up and wondering if he could afford the ride. A decade later, he has coached in Taiwan's Premier Le...

Hamilton Thorp wrote letters to English football clubs when he was 16. No email, no agent, no footage. Just a kid from Darwin with a dream and a stamp. Arsenal wrote back. What happened next — across Portsmouth, Sweden, Norway, Singapore, and eventuall...

Stefan Milidrag had the dream, the ability, and the work ethic. Then COVID took two years of football away from him. What he built in that gap might be the most interesting part of his story. Stefan is a Canadian footballer currently playing in New Zea...

Kerwin Marc Jean-Pierre took 17 boys — some as young as 14 — from Queensland to a small city in Spain and put them in a full-time football environment for 10 months. Daily training, Spanish classes, online school, Federation competitions, and trials at...

Sean Lane has coached professional football in Bangladesh, built a residential academy squad from scratch in Ohio, and navigated club owners, six-month visas, and a team bus driving into oncoming traffic. He has never done things the conventional way. ...

Cam Watson signed for Porto at 19 after a chance conversation at a park in Melbourne. No agent, no plan, just a week's trial and a handshake. What followed was five countries, two continents, and every lesson the overseas life teaches you the hard way....

Michael Glassock almost didn't make it. COVID hit mid-career, the A-League door never opened, and two years passed with no real opportunity. Then Malaysia called. Michael grew up on the Central Coast, came through the Mariners academy for a decade, and...

In this introduction podcast episode, Chris Broadfoot introduces himself as the host of "The Overseas Athlete: A SportsFX Podcast." The podcast aims to inspire and educate aspiring international athletes who are considering moving abroad to compete and...