Brendon Fotheringham

Welcome to Episode 16 of the Football United vs Soccer City podcast. As always I am delighted to host this podcast as it gives me the opportunity to speak to a variety of people within our vibrant and dynamic soccer/football community. And thank you to all the listeners that support this podcast and all the people that follow the social media pages. I am amazed at the support and at the depth to our history in the community. I will keep posting and searching as there are many more items that need to be found and posted.

This episode’s interviewee started his soccer journey in Sydney before he came to the Illawarra in the early 1980s as a 23 year old. His first interaction within the Illawarra was to play a few games with Socceroo Adrian Alston in his first season with the University of Wollongong Soccer Club. The majority of Brendon Fotheringham’s career was spent at UOW SC and it is here where he tasted success in a grand final for the first time in 1989, one of UOW SC’s best periods as a club. From the mid 1990s onwards he then moved around to learn from different coaches at various clubs and during this period due to his vocation as a teacher he was heavily involved at the different levels of coaching within the Combined High School soccer community.

I found Fotho to be a great interviewee as he was always willing to try different areas of the game and speak about them, such as refereeing in the past couple of seasons. The friendships developed in his career are many but one of the primary soccer relationships was with Ian Morris, which began when Fotho was his teacher in the late 1980s. Over the course of approximately 25 years these two have shared soccer experiences and it says a lot about both of them that their friendship still exists today. That is it for now, please enjoy this episode.

Music by Luke Nolan