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The Athlete Newsletter

Money and business stories for athletes, and the people who build around them.

One email every Wednesday. Real athlete stories with the real numbers behind them, for athletes and the people who advise them.

Who it is for

Written for Athletes and the People Around Them

A professional career has more moving parts than most people see: before, during and after the playing years. Each week we find the people with the right knowledge and experience and ask them to share it, so the next athlete facing the same decision does not have to work it out alone.

Athletes

Before, during and after the playing years

What contracts, tax, currency and big decisions actually do to your money, told through players who have been there.

Advisers and agents

Wealth managers, financial planners, accountants, tax agents, sports lawyers and agents

The issues your athlete clients run into, with one takeaway each week you can forward straight to them.

What is inside

What You Get Each Week

  • Real athlete stories

    A real story or case study from a professional career, with the real numbers behind it.

  • Tax and residency

    Tax, residency and second passports, and what to check before you sign or move.

  • Insurance

    What a professional career needs covered, and where the gaps tend to be.

  • Currency

    A regular section on what exchange rates did to people paid in one currency and spending in another. What happened, not predictions.

  • Athlete startups

    Athletes building their own tech and businesses, and what it took to get them off the ground.

  • Markets explained

    Specialists explain markets and finance in plain terms, so you know what to ask your adviser. No tips and no predictions.

In every issue

  • A real story or case study.
  • One takeaway an adviser can forward to a client.
  • Guest pieces from people who do this for a living: tax agents, brokers and lawyers.

Latest editions

Recent Editions

A Wallaby moves to Japan. The exchange rate moves too.

Same contract, same yen. Over 12 months, one season's pay could have moved by A$244,000.

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Paid in euros. Living in dollars. And a €500,000 bonus due in December.

They earn in euros and invest in dollars. The bank fee is small. The exchange rate on amounts this size is not.

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Mathew Stubbs. A$80,000 for one season. And the half he never budgeted for.

His budget blew out by about half. A big part of the reason was what everything cost once it was converted into US dollars.

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A Year Abroad, A 12% Swing Nobody Was Managing

Thirty-plus Australian coaches and well over a hundred players are earning overseas right now. None of them chose where in a 12% range their pay would land this year.

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$370 Million, 51 Countries, One Currency

MLS just published its transfer numbers. The part nobody costs is what happens between arrival and departure.

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A 40-Year High and a Four-Year $60m Contract

Kazuma Okamoto is paid in dollars and lives in yen. What that contract is actually worth just moved again, plus a look at stablecoins and what's new on the channel.

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The bill that turns up five years later

Episode 28: Tim Pullman on residency, net contracts, and what nobody checks before signing.

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Ten weeks on the bench, no explanation. Then he won the Korea Cup.

Episode 27: Jon Aspropotamitis on the first move to Asia, and what the yen and the euro did this week.

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Earlier editions were sent under the SportsFX name. Same list, same Wednesday email.

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About

Why I Write This

I played professionally in the A-League with Gold Coast United. After football I founded SportsFX, the currency and payments partner to professional sport, and today we work with players associations.

Over that time I have seen the same thing again and again. The playing side of a career gets all the attention. The money side, the contracts, the tax, the currency, the business decisions, gets worked out as people go, often when it is already expensive.

This newsletter is where I write down what I learn. Each Wednesday I cover one real story, the numbers behind it, and what the athletes and the people advising them can take from it.

If something lands close to where you are right now, reply and tell me. I read every one.

ChrisChris Broadfoot, founder of SportsFX

  • PlayedFormer A-League professional, Gold Coast United
  • FoundedSportsFX, the currency and payments partner to professional sport
  • Works withPlayers associations
  • WritesThe Athlete Newsletter, every Wednesday

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