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

We talk to Greg Stewart about coming up through the Rangers the Hearts youth systems. Playing for Sygenta amateurs before playing for Cowdenbeath and Dundee in the SPFL. A move to England with Birmingham City during a tumultuous time for the cub with multiple managerial changes and loan moves to Aberdeen and Kilmarnock. A move Rangers followed winning a Scottish Premiership on the way before moving to the Indian Super League with Jamshedpur then current club Mumbai City.

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

We talk to Andy Irving just before his transfer window day transfer to West Ham United (although he is on loan back to Austria Klagenfurt for the rest of the season). We discuss coming through the Hearts youth team, moving into the first team after loans in the SPFL with Berwick Rangers and Falkirk. What is was like to decide to move to Germany to sign with Turkgucu Munchen in 2021 before a move to the Austrian Bundesliga.

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The latest in our series of interviews with Scottish footballers who have played outside of the UK. David Bates talks to John Walker about his career in the Scotland, Germany, England & Belgium.

David started his football career with his local side Raith Rovers where he spent 5 years developing his style including loan moves to East Stirlingshire & Brechin City. In 2016 he moved to his boyhood team, Rangers, as a development loan that turned into a full signing.

In the summer of 2018 he moved to Germany to play for Hamburg. The historically successful side had just suffered their first ever relegation to the Bundesliga 2. A huge impact made Bates an instant fan favourite until injuries hampered his season both in Hamburg and his loan to Sheffield Wednesday.

He is currently on loan at Cercle Brugge in the Belgian Pro League. We discuss his hopes for the seasons ahead and his ambition to add to his 4 international caps so far.

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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.

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 footballers who have played outside of the UK. We talk to Johnny Russell to get an update on how his season is going at Sporting Kansas City ahead of the upcoming MLS Playoff first round tie against Ryan Gauld's Vancouver Whitecaps on Sat 20th Nov 2021.

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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.

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. Jack Hendry talks to John Walker about his career in Scotland, England, Australia & Belgium. We also talk about being part of the Scotland EURO 2020 squad.

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