While Mills is to some extent fulfilling his dream, Davis, a former team-mate at Friska is on another page.
His football ambitions faded some time ago and the 28-year-old former Plymouth Argyle forward is content leading an altogether different existence as a media sales executive.
“When I arrived the only thing I knew about Sweden is that their football team played in yellow, there were supposed to be a lot of trees and the women were meant to by good looking,” he said.
“I joined Umea, which is basically the third tier of Swedish football, and made a good start as an 18-year-old, scoring seven goals in my first eight starts for the club. They obviously thought highly enough of me from that because they gave me a two-year deal to stay.”
A change in coach, formation and tactics also led to a change of fortune, however, and Davis dropped down a division to play for Junsele IF.
“I got to around 22-23 years old and got a job in a school taking the PE lessons so I had an income from football and full-time employment,” he said.
“I know Andrew [Mills], he stank when he worked in the fish factory, it was horrible. No way could I have done that.
“For the last 12 months I’ve been selling adverts in Tidningen 7 [the main newspaper in Ornskoldsvik]. It’s like playing semi-professional football back home. You go training in the evening and then get up for work the next day.”
He has few regrets about how his life has panned out and recently bought an apartment with his girlfriend Limmea.
“My situation and life have changed,” he said. “I love living in Sweden and my quality of life here is better than in England.
“I met my girlfriend two and a half years ago and we’ve made a commitment by buying an apartment together. We both made that decision, so it’s not like I can or would want to turn round and say, ‘I’ve decided to go back to England to do the same thing I can do here’.”