Around the Continent: Roger’s Corner – August 20th, 2014

CEFL (Central European Football League)

Vukvoi Belgrade (Europe #10) capped a grueling yet highly successful season earlier in July, by beating the Ljubjana Silverhawks 27-17 to win their second title of the year. Vukovi reached three championship finals winning two of them. A remarkable achievement.

Czech Republic

The Czech championship ended, as expected last month, with the Prague Black Panthers (Europe #8) taking the title beating the Pnbram Bobcats 40-0. With that, Prague finished a great season with a record of 13-6. They played more games than any other team in Europe.

PBP

Denmark

In Denmark only two games were played. The Triangle Razorbacks had an easy time blanking the Aab 89ers 46-0 while Aarhus delivered the same type of defeat to Odense, 46-6.

The Copenhagen Towers (Europe #18) lead the league at 7-0 and have scored 299 points in seven games while allowing only 32 against. They are first in Group 1 and have defeated both the Triangle Razorbacks and the Gold Diggers (two and three in Denmark) by a combined total of 58-6. Aarhus is second in Group 1 with Amager third. The Triangle Razorbacks lead Group 2 at 7-1, followed by Sollerod in second (4-3) and Herlev third, also at 4-3.

Triangle Razorbacks

 

Finland

In Finland, the Helsinki Roosters (Europe #12), struggled and had to come from behind to beat fourth-place TAFT 17-10. Helsinki was down 10-9 at halftime. The Turku Trojans kept pace with the Roosters as they scored 28 second half points to put away the Butchers 35-3. The Senaijoki Crocodiles beat up on the hapless Helsinki Wolverines 63-0. Finally, the surging Helsinki 69ers scored 35 points in the first half and cruised to a 45-7 win over the Kuovola Indians. The Roosters remain first in the Maple League with 14 points and the Turku Trojans are second also with 14. The Crocodiles are third at 6-2 and TAFT is fourth with a 4-4 record.

France

The Thonon Black Panthers (Europe #15) won the French league in thrilling fashion a month ago. But they lost lost in the semi-finals of the inaugural IFAF Europe Champions League tournament to Vukovi Belgrade 19-7.

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Roger Kelly is an editor and a writer for AFI. A former PR Director the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League for 7 years, he now lives in Sweden writing about and scouting American Football throughout the world.