Alan Ainslie and Trevor Kemp were both Berwick schoolboys who went on to play for their home town club.
But in 1965 Kemp answered an advert in the 'Sunday Post' inviting players to go to Oz, and within a few weeks he was playing for Melbourne Hungaria.
During his time there he played against Manchester United, Chelsea, Moscow Torpedo, Juventus and Slavan Bratislavia when they were on tour.
"It was always meant to be a short-term thing," said Kemp, who after four years was starting to get a little homesick.
"I was missing my family," he said, "and I came back around 1969, when Alan was still playing for Berwick."
Ainslie, who was a member of the now infamous giantkilling Berwick team which beat Glasgow Rangers 1-0 at Shielfield in 1967, left for Australia a few months later.
"I had been at Berwick for about four years," he said. "I had the chance to go to South Africa or Australia, but I got a letter inviting my to play in Oz and so off I went."
Ainslie joined St George Budapest in Sydney, a sister club of Melbourne Hungaria, and like Kemp he played against a host of touring sides including Chelsea, Aberdeen and an FA Select.
"What surprised me most at the time was the fact that only a few weeks after leaving Berwick I was playing in a tournament in Japan," he said.
Ainslie also won four full caps with the Australian national side, the 'Socceroos' - three against Israel and one against Hong Kong, and in one of the matches he scored the winning goal in a 1-0 victory against the Israeli's.
"That was one of the highlights of my career," he said, "but I suppose I can't really go past the Berwick win over Rangers. Berwick was my home town club, Rangers were a team full of international players, and of course every time I come back home people keep talking to me about it and reminding me of it."
But unlike Kemp, Ainslie, who also played for a while in Hong Kong, enjoyed the lifestyle 'Down Under' so much that he decided to stay.
He has been living there for the past 39 years and still works as a painter and decorator. He resides with his wife Pat in The Blue Mountains, which is an area just outside Sydney and for 15 years was a football coach at Armadale University.
But he has not hung up his boots entirely just yet, for he still helps train at a private girls school once a week.
Over the past few years he has been a more regular visitor 'home' to Berwick, and it was on one such occasion last week that he met up with Kemp again.
"Alan is three years younger than me, (61 as opposed to 64) so we never really played together as kids," said Kemp. "We were both at Berwick as part of the Reserves and played together for a little while, but we still keep in touch."
Kemp, on his return from Australia, had a brief spell with Leicester City Reserves and on his return to Berwick coached at amateur level with Highfields, Tweedmouth, Coldstream and Berwick Rangers Youths.
"It's always nice to meet up with Alan again and talk over the good old days," he said. "We both played with some of the top players in Australia, and I suppose it was ironic that we should both have played for sister clubs in Oz."