Guiuseppe Funicello: The Honest Version of the Overseas Football Dream, From the Owner's Chair.

Guiuseppe Funicello, who goes by Joe, will not sell you the dream. He owns the club, and he has seen the maths.

Joe played non-league football in England at 19 and reached the Finnish top flight, then spent 13 years building Soccer Viza, placing players into clubs across Romania, Costa Rica and beyond.

He has owned clubs on two continents. From that seat he explains what young players never see. That going pro is a three-to-five-year grind. That the club housing you and paying you 500 euros a month is funding your entire career and rarely makes it back. That knowing your worth is a skill almost nobody learns. And that real networking is relationship-building, not asking strangers for a trial.

If you are weighing a move abroad, this is the conversation that saves you years.