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The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Anthony McDonald talks to John Walker about his move to Spain.

We talk to Anthony about his youth, being born in Cyprus before moving to Scotland a few months old and his childhood Celtic fandom.

The striker started at Livingston before joining Hearts where he stayed for 8 years. He graduated to the first team in 2017 and also had loan deals with Inverness CT and Dunfermline Athletic. Earlier this year he signed for Spanish Segunda Division B side Cordoba. Injury has prevented him making his debut and we discuss the impact of this on Anthony as well as his reasons for moving abroad.

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The latest in our series of interviews with figures in footballer who have forged a career outside of the UK. Graham Hunter talks to John Walker about moving to Spain after a career in UK journalism.

Graham Hunter, a passionate Dandies fan from Aberdeen, started in journalism in the mid 80's working his way through writing football reports for the Sunday Mirror and Sunday Times before taking on a role at the Daily Mail.

In 2002 he relocated to Spain to cover Spanish football just in time to see the Spanish Golden Generation.

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The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. Jamie Wilson talks to John Walker about playing in Australia.

Jaime started his career in the Inverness CT youth set up before moving to Rothes. He then travelled to Australia to play with Northcote City. He returned to Scotland this summer and signed with current club Dumbarton.

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The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK.

We talk to London-born Jack about growing up as a Rangers fan with Scottish parents. The defender was part of the Fulham youth set up until being scouted by West Virginia University at just 12. His US college career included playing for the West Virginia Mountaineers and South Florida Surf before being a fourth round draft pick for Philadelphia Union in 2017. 

We also chat about how, despite what EA Sports says, he defines himself as Scottish and would be the only nation he'd want to represent.

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The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish sportspeople who have performed outside of the UK.

We talk to welterweight Ross "The Hitman" Houston about growing up in a boxing family, turning to MMA, becoming Cage Warriors champion & signing up to Bellator ahead of his main event fight against Michael "Venom" Page at Bellator 248 in Paris on October 10th 2020

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The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK.

We talk to Johnny about coming through the Dundee United youth team before breaking into the first squad after loan periods with Forfar Athletic and Raith Rovers. After a decade and almost moving abroad he left to play in the English Championship with Derby County for 5 years. He then moved out to the US to his current club Sporting Kansas City. We also chat about his international career with Scotland and the difficulties of traveling between continents and his determination to do so to represent his country.

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The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK.

We talk to Steven about coming through the youth ranks at Rangers with periods at Partick Thistle, Lincoln City, Dundalk & Newport County before making the decision to move, playing for Fram in Iceland & Sandnes Ulf in Norway before returning to Iceland with current club Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar (thankfully normally known as just FH). We cover how he rediscovered his love of the game in Scandinavia, becoming Icelands highest scoring foreign player and his ambitions for when his playing career comes to an end.

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The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK.

We chat to Bob about coming through the youth ranks at a successful Rangers side followed by spells with Derby County, Queens Park Rangers & Motherwell before a move to Australia to play with Brisbane roar. Bob ended his playing career with periods at Dundee & Cowdenbeath before taking up coaching including being Barry Ferguson's assistant at Clyde & currently at Kelty Hearts.

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The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK.

Lewis is, at 18, still at the start of his career. A Manchester City youth player and born and bred supporter who was surprised to learn of his Scottish Grandmother that has allowed him to be called up for Scotland at multiple age groups. Having recently gone on loan to NAC Breda in the Dutch Eerste Divisie to get a taste of first team football we talk to Lewis at an exciting moment in his promising career.

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The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK.

Nick came through the ranks at his local side Inverness Caledonian Thistle and included a Scottish Cup win. He then played for Dundee before moving to Romania to play with Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe, returning home for a short spell with Brora Rangers then relocating to the US to play for El Paso Locamotice is the USFL.

We chat to Nick about his journey, experiences of playing abroad and discuss his career.

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