It was just last month that Kevin Foley took the phone call that has completely transformed his life.



The call came via an old team-mate from 10 years ago, one he’d kept in touch with who had since moved abroad to manage the Tampa Bay Rowdies, one league below MLS.



“Kevin, it’s Neill… do you fancy coming to Florida to be my assistant?” came the question.



“Erm… let me speak to the wife first!” was the immediate reply.



Foley didn’t take much convincing. He’d watched his friend Neill Collins flourish since his move to Florida three years earlier, ending his career as he always thought he would.



Scottish centre-half Collins, who in addition to a three-year spell at Wolves also played for Sunderland, Preston, Leeds and Sheffield United, joined the Rowdies in 2016, initially as a player and then as manager from 2018.



The Rowdies had considered giving the job to Joe Cole, a...