Calum Ferguson in action for Inverness under-20s in 2016 - Footballer in a blue and red striped kit runs towards a yellow ball during a match, with empty orange stadium seats blurred in the background.Image source, SNS
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Calum Ferguson was an Inverness Caley Thistle academy player but only played twice for the first team

ByCalum MaclennanBBC Scotland News Gaelic
  • Published4 hours ago

Calum Ferguson achieved what thousands of young footballers dream of when he played for his boyhood club, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, in the Scottish Premiership.

Yet the 31-year-old looks back on his career as proof of a difficult truth about youth development in Scotland.

Ferguson graduated from Caley Thistle's academy at 18 but played just two games for the first team before moving to lower league clubs and then to Canada and New Zealand to try to get top-flight football.