Hopefully we can follow this kid like we did the African American youngster (at least that's how I remember him) in Germany a few years ago. What was his name? Wasn't his name Dontavius Fleming?
I haven't figured yet how to start threads and this may not warrant it anyway ... but one of those UK based sites is reporting/speculating that Dick Advocaat, now in charge of a <near> bottom-dwelling Borussia M-gladbach, is looking for reinforcements and he is primarily seeking Dutch players from Ajax and Feyenoord. The previously mentioned Thomas Buffel was brought up again. I wonder what this means for the Yanks like Clint Dempsey, who was thought to be Buffel's replacement.
Buffel is a forward primarily, but he stepped in for Shinji Ono at attacking central midfielder for a few games. Dempsey is not going to Feyenoord, if ever, till next summer.
Loud out laughing fun as this may be, I really think it shows that Dave needs to find something else to do than randomly googling the internet. But, since I don't have that much of a life either, let's play along: Ragnar Ferrand-Drake (borned 93) is a defender with Vikens IK P11 team. They played in the "P11 Hbg A"-league this summer and finished 8 out of 10 teams (6-10-2). And since the team calls him "homecoming swedish-american" in their presentation of him, Dave seems to be spot on: Ragnar is a yank playing soccer abroad.
An update to this thread was clearly warranted. I'm not sure the whereabouts of Vikens' 93 defender Ragnar, but there appear to be a couple other Ferrand-Drakes out there in Sweden. I don't know how common the name is, but it seems that Fredrik (91) and Gustav (90) both played for Brunnby FF in Sweden in 2007: http://web.telia.com/~u42309219/senior_a-lag.htm So maybe we lost one Ferrand-Drake and gained two... Who knows? Will see what else I can find out, if anything. For some reason the team's web site doesn't have a roster for the 93 boys' team, though it does for other youth squads.