There is a guy named Mack Ward a defender playing for Friska Viljor FC in the Swedish 3rd division (5th division). His bio on the club website doesn't say much else except his last club was the Dallas Texans. I can't find anymore info http://www.friskaviljor.se/Spelare_visa.cfm?ID=1731
Thinking this is Mackenzie Ward, an '88 who transferred from St. John's to Clemson and played for the Tigers in the fall.
The goalkeeper T.S. Noble also seem to be an american. Apologies if there is already a thread on him though. http://allehanda.se/sport/fotboll/1.2802575-fv-varvar-malvakt-fran-usa Article says that an american christian organization is paying his wages and not the club while he's at Friska Viljor. Apparantly it's called a "sports missionary" and he will be doing charity work as well when he's not playing. Friska Viljor is a decently successful lower league club, I remember them playing in Superettan (second tier) not too long ago.
Thanks Dave. I wondered if Noble was an American when I saw his name and that his last club was Shreveport F.C.
Ward and Noble are back on the roster for 2012. It looks like Spires moved on. http://www.friskaviljor.se/spelare_lista.cfm?SasongID=20
I had almost forgotten about these guys but fortunaly I just saw that they played in the promotion playoff to the fourth tier this past weekend after finishing runner up in their league. Unfortunaly they lost and will not be promoted. Noble have acted as a backup keeper throughout the season, starting one game. Ward on the other hand played 18 out of 22 games. According to the forum on their site he was also suspended for a short while for having some kind of angry breakdown in a reserve game. With four goals and six assists during the season he seems to have done very well other then that though and he is also refered to as "the defensive boss" in a newsarticle and the teams "defensive rock" in an article on the official website. And finally to offer a rare glimpse into the world of swedish fifth tier football I also found this highlights video of Ward posted below, including a couple of his goals:
A recent article in the local paper writes that the team will have two foreign players this season, one of them being Ward and the other a guy from Kenya. So I guess that Noble has returned to the US.
Seems like it's been an eventful season for Ward who is now the team captain (and is pictured in yellow/black stripes above). After a second place finish last year things took a turn for the worse this season and Friska Viljor found themselves facing relegation only to magically escape with a one point margin after winning the last two league games. They still had to face relegation playoffs though but that proved no problem and the contract was saved this past weekend.
T'Markt has him as having then moved to a team in the Czech Republic, though that was a few years back. https://www.transfermarkt.de/mackenzie-ross-ward/profil/spieler/479716
I don't know exactly how recent this is but Ward is listed here as a trainer at Swedish club Gottne IF. https://www.svenskalag.se/gottneifdiv2/truppen