A new frontier: why Aussies are coming to MLS for soccer opportunity

Major League Soccer is proving a fertile ground for a growing band of Australian players and coaches

There is perhaps no greater reminder that Australia is a faraway island nation with limited global influence than the fact so many Australians pore over a niche form of online football content known as Aussies Abroad'.

While the likes of Ned Zelic and Paul Okon were hardly the first Australian players to move to Europe, their arrivals at Borussia Dortmund and Club Brugge in the early 1990s coincided with a surge of interest in how Aussie footballers were performing overseas.