Ward Forrest (born 1954) is a retired American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People *Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Smal ...

who spent two seasons in the

North American Soccer League The North American Soccer League (NASL) was the top-level major professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984. It is considered the first soccer league to be successful on a national scale in the ...

. Forrest attended the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

where he played on the Huskies soccer team from 1972 to 1975. He then played for the Seattle Sounders of the

in 1977 and 1978. His son

Kevin Forrest Kevin Forrest (born November 3) is an American retired soccer player. Career Youth and College Forrest grew up in Edmonds, Washington, and began his career with various youth soccer teams in the Seattle area, including Emerald City FC, and the ...

also played for the Washington Huskies and for the Seattle Sounders.

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1954 births Living people American men's soccer players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players Seattle Sounders (1974–1983) players Washington Huskies men's soccer players Soccer players from Washington (state) Men's association football forwards 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-footy-forward-1950s-stub