JAPAN CLAIMS BRONZE WITH 17-14 VICTORY OVER MEXICO Japan blocked a field goal to preserve victory Japan won consolation for not contesting the world championship for the first time since the competition began in 1999 by winning the Bronze Medal with a narrow 17-14 victory over a resilient Mexico. The tight battle that was predicted between a bruising Mexico and finely tuned Japan played out as expected as Mexico attempted to force overtime on the game's final drive and only fell short when a 50-yard field goal attempt by Jose Carlos Maltos was blocked as time expired. http://www.ifaf.info/articles/view/792/Lw==
Germany remains Europe's #1 Germany outlasted France 21:17 to claim fifth place at the IFAF Senior World Championship at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna. Quarterback Joachim Ullrich threw a tournament record longest pass completion of 89 yards that receiver Niklas Romer took all the way to the end zone for German’s first lead of the game at 21-14 in the fourth quarter and France could only muster a field goal in reply. The win was a repeat of Germany’s European Championship victory over France in 2010. http://www.americanfootball2011.com...slate-to-english-deutschland-ist-europas-nr1/
I missed it once again... I have an appreciation for real cheerleaders. The abs on the woman holding the American flag and the Austrian uniform have me believing she is a real cheerleader.
IFAF DELEGATION VISITS CHINA TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL IFAF on 04/19/2012 Representatives of the International Federation of American Football will visit China next week to discuss the development of American football in three cities. IFAF President TOMMY WIKING, IFAF Treasurer and USA Football Executive Director SCOTT HALLENBECK and IFAF Senior Vice President and President of AFAF DR K.K. PARK from the Korean federation will visit Beijing, Wuhu, and Shanghai. They will communicate with the American Football community in China, and meet with industry and government leaders to promote the development of the sport in China. The trip coincides with the first collegiate American Football training camp ever held in China, which will consist of two days of training at the Wuhu Olympic Stadium where student athletes and local sports trainers will learn the foundations of the game on and off the field. http://www.ifaf.org/articles/view/1164/L2FydGljbGVzL2ZlYXR1cmVkL2luZGV4L3BhZ2U6MQ==
IFAF WORLD TEAM WINS 2012 INTERNATIONAL BOWL 35-29 The IFAF World Team won a thrilling 2012 International Bowl 35-29 despite a rousing U.S. Under-19 National Team comeback that fell just short in the fourth quarter. The game marked the first loss in international competition at the senior or junior level by Team USA, including the 2007 and 2011 IFAF Senior World championships, the 2009 U-19 IFAF World Championship and two previous International Bowls. University of Manitoba runningback Anthony Coombs rushed for a game-high 147 yards and two touchdowns and Burlington (Canada) Nelson High School quarterback Will Finch completed 11-of-14 passes for 169 yards and a pair of scores to lead the World team to the victory. http://www.ifaf.org/articles/view/1029
TEAM STARS & STRIPES - 50 ITALIAN UNDER 19 NATIONAL TEAM - 0 by Global Football Tours on Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 4:07pm As the historic Italian capital city of Rome marked its 2,765th birthday, Team Stars & Stripes celebrated with a 50-0 victory over the country’s Under 19 national team. The 20 schools represented on the Team Stars & Stripes roster are Villa Angela St Joseph (Cleveland, OH), Canyon Del Oro, Catalina Foothills, Film School of LA, Ironwood Ridge High, Rincon High, Sabino High, Tucson High (all Tucson, AZ), Father Judge, Cardinal O'Hara, Episcopal Academy, Malvern Prep, William Penn Charter (all Philadelphia, PA), Cathedral Prep (Erie, PA), Winneconne High (WI), Somerset High (WI), Brodhead Juda High (WI), Loyal High (WI), Carrol High (Ozark, AL), and Vero Beach High (FL). Team Stars & Stripes arrived in Rome on April 15 and mixed practice sessions with cultural sightseeing including the spectacular sights of the picturesque spa town of Montecantini Terme, where the team practiced. They visited Florence, set in the rolling hills of Tuscany, Rome via the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi, Ancient Rome and the Coliseum and finally The Vatican Led by veteran head coach Jeff Scurran, the American all-star team drawn from 20 high schools across eight states, had too much firepower in the air and dominated defensively at the Via dei Campi Sportivi in Rome. http://www.ifaf.org/articles/view/1166
Was looking up some stuff on this last week after it got brought up listening to some CFL podcasts. There's a career CFL defensive lineman Adriano Belli that shortly after retiring from the CFL got asked "hey, we've got this thing in Austria we're going to play in, you wanna go?" He did it and said it was a lot of fun. Bigged up the Japanese saying they gave them a hard game but Japan had been together a lot longer while the Canadian team in comparison had only been together a month. He said once they played the U.S. they could do nothing with them and that a few of their players were guys that were NFL cuts and you could tell. Here's a podcast with him. He talks about it after a few minutes: http://traffic.libsyn.com/rougeradio/season2podcast19.mp3 There's apparently a junior (under-19) world championship later on this year that starts June 28th. American Samoa had their first ever representative game playing Australia in the Oceania Bowl in February and in a torrential downpour in Brisbane beat the Aussies 93-7. American Samoa's roster was pulled from the country's 7 high schools.
The Aussies should have done Fiji instead, the Samoans can play some ball. All those Mormon missionaries.
for the four people on here that care: I have a desire to watch that 1/8 game to see how the American Samoan team does.
this is the Jr. (U-19) World Cup so obviously the players for the most part will not be college players. The Seniors played last year.
IFAF Junior World Championship Quarterfinal Results: 5) Austria def. 4) Panama 40-0 3) Japan def. 6) France 27-6 2) Canada def. 7) Sweden 43-0 U.S.-American Samoa to start within a half-hour here. The seed is probably highly unfair to Am. Sam. as it was the finishing position of New Zealand (same region) in the last edition of this tournament: http://www.canadafootballchat.com/live_games.php Games Tuesday at the same website: Panama vs. U.S.-American Samoa loser Sweden vs. France Games Wednesday: Japan vs. Canada Austria vs. U.S.-American Samoa winner
I somehow was unsubscribed from this thread and forgot about this tournament and missed games. If not for checking football message boards, I would not have even realized another future Hokie (Dakota Jackson) is on the roster. The past couple Hokies who played are doing pretty good. David Wilson went in the first round to the Giants.
http://www.canadafootballchat.com/ France defeated Sweden 41-0. American Samoa defeated Panama 51-0. Tonight is U.S. versus Austria and Canada vs. Japan.
I'm pretty sure winning a U19 "American Football" tournament against questionable talent isn't how you make another brand of Football more popular.
IFAF 2012 FLAG FOOTBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP The sixth IFAF Flag Football World Championship kicks off in the Swedish city of Gothenburg on Thursday as 17 countries from four continents compete in men's and women's competitions during the four-day tournament. The 2012 Men's tournament features 16 total teams split into two groups of 8 teams, based on seeding from previous events and newcomers added to each group from a random draw. 2010 champion USA heads a tough Group A also containing the nation that finished fourth last time around, Canada, and host nation Sweden. Group B features silver and bronze medalists from 2010 Denmark and Italy. Find all the results and latest news from Gothenburg at the IFAF Facebook and Twitter pages. http://iof1.idrottonline.se/Svenska...undet/2012IFAFFlagFootballWorldChampionships/ Teams will play a round-robin tournament on August 16 and 17 before the top two teams in each group contest the semi finals and then either the Gold or Bronze Medal games on August 19. Teams finishing lower in the group standings will play off for places 5-8, 9-12 and 13-16 on August 18. In observance of the Sabbath, Israel will play their games a day later if necessary. The Women's tournament will crown a new champion since Canada will not defend its title. With the 12 nations split into two groups of six, silver medalist from 2010 USA heads Group A, while bronze medal winner Austria leads Group B. Brazil and Panama are both first time flag football entrants. Teams will play a round-robin tournament on August 16 and 17 before the top two teams in each group contest the semi finals and then either the Gold or Bronze Medal games on August 19. Teams finishing lower in the group standings will play off for places 5-8 and 9-12 and on August 18. In observance of the Sabbath, Israel will play their games a day later if necessary.
Roger Goodell: American football should 'absolutely' be an Olympic sport If you've been watching the Olympics (or at least reading the killer coverage our guys have been banging out), you're fully aware just how ridiculous some of the sports being played in London are. To wit: the silly shuttlecock scandal that went down this week in badminton. The point here is really that badminton is an Olympic sport and football is not. That seems, at least in the spirit of gladiating and whatnot, kind of ridiculous. Fortunately, change could be coming: Roger Goodell told Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio on the Dan Patrick Show Friday that American football should "absolutely" be an Olympic sport. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/e...ootball-should-absolutely-be-an-olympic-sport
Football in the Olympics? Would love to see it happen but it will never happen. Look at baseball, it got removed from the Olympics and its fair to say that more people aroynd the globe plays baseball than football.
It's a joke that baseball and softball were removed. I hate all of the politics behind the Olympics. Some form of rugby should be added before American Football.
AUSTRIA AND MEXICO WIN GOLD IN SWEDEN Austria and Mexico won goal at the 2012 IFAF Flag Football World Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Sunday as the United States were defeated in both the men's and women's finals. Austria 47 USA 40 USA led Austria 13-0 and 19-7 and had the upper hand at halftime in the men's final, but the Austrians hit back, taking advantage of turnovers to score 19 unanswered points to lead 26-19. USA tied the score and with Austria a squad member down after an ejection due to illegal contact, looked to be about to defend the title won in 2010 in Canada. The teams exchanged touchdowns and Austria led 33-32 after a failed USA extra point play then with two minutes remaining, after each team had scored again, USA tied the game at 40-40. Austria scored the final and decisive seven points and held out as the clock expired to claim a famous victory. Mexico 33 USA 32 (OT) Mexico opened the scoring, but USA hit straight back and the teams continued to exchange scores with Mexico taking the lead each time until the scores were tied at 20-20 and then at 26-26 as both sides failed to convert what would have been a game-winning extra point. Mexico drove downfield in search of the win with less than a minute remaining, but USA forced overtime with an interception in the end zone as Mexico threatened to steal victory. The drama continued as USA also failed in a last second attempt to break the deadlock. In overtime, both teams had an opportunity to possess the ball at midfield to score and USA put the pressure on Mexico with a touchdown to lead 32-26, but failed on the extra point conversion. Mexico was spectacular in reply as the first play from scrimmage went for a touchdown and the all-important one-point conversion pass sealed a 33-32 victory.