If you're an overseas athlete — or about to become one — this is for you.
Maybe you've just received your first overseas offer. Maybe this is your third move to a new country, new customs, new rules, new currency. Maybe you're a parent trying to understand what your son or daughter is actually walking into.
Wherever you are in the journey, welcome.
What is The Overseas Athlete?
TOA is a podcast, a newsletter, and a resource hub built around one idea: learn from people who've already done it.
Every week we speak to active players, retired athletes who now work in the game, and specialists who help athletes navigate their careers. Agents, financial advisors, sports lawyers, mental health professionals, currency managers.
Real conversations. Practical tools. No fluff.
Why does it exist?
Sport will take you anywhere in the world.
But nobody prepares you for what comes with it.
The foreign currency. The contract you can't fully read. The loneliness nobody warned you about. The coach who gets sacked in week two. What happens if you get injured in your first month and don't know your rights. How to protect your money when you're earning in a currency that isn't yours.
The football system teaches you how to play. It doesn't teach you how to survive once you get there.
That's the gap TOA exists to close.
Where to start
New here? Start with Episode 1.
Michael Glassock was 19 years old when he left Australia for Hong Kong. He came through the NPL system and A-League youth ranks, said goodbye to his parents, and stepped into a world he'd never experienced before. He talks honestly about the mental health challenges, the loneliness, and what he wished he'd known.
It's a great place to start because it's exactly the story TOA was built around.
Listen or watch Episode 1 — Michael Glassock
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Until next time,
Chris
