Following his last season at UCLA, Thompson was a member of the U.S. soccer team at the 1991 World University Games. He then moved to France to play for Pau Football Club, of the French Second and Third divisions. He was with the team from 1991 to 1994 before returning to the United States for a short spell with professional beach soccer which led him to compete in the Beach Soccer World Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a year later. In 1995, he spent a single season with the Hawaii Tsunami of the USISL. He was the league's Offensive MVP. That same year he also guest played with Raj Pracha FC of Thailand.