Episode 12 - Alistair Heath

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 ground he walked onto had chickens wandering along the sideline and dogs crossing the pitch mid-session.

This episode is the most honest version of a first-time manager's overseas year that the podcast has run.

Heath is thirty-eight, has coached for twenty years, and spent most of those years in academy football in England and, later, two and a half years in Thailand inside Leicester's international program.

He took the Cambodia job because, in his own words, the path to being a comfortable senior coach in the UK was too easy. He wanted uncomfortable. He got it.

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