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Spain: QB Glen Cuiellette brings GFL pedigree to Badalona Dracs
The typical European import journey plays out in a predictable pattern. A wide-eyed American discovers the opportunity to continue his career overseas, blindly jumping at...
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Record number of international athletes proves college football is now global
With its rabid fandoms, roaring student sections, iconic tailgates and elaborate marching band, college football is a spectacle unlike anything in the world. No other...
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Brotherly love: Nolan and Miles Corpening team up for the first time with Spain’s Barbera Rookies
Football is a sport built on brotherhood and this season, the Barbera Rookies will be taking that literally. Making the jump to the Spanish first...
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Australian Bailey Devine-Scott made tackles, not kicks at Tropical Bowl All-Star game
Arriving at the SPIRAL Tropical Bowl, it only took until the hotel lobby before Bailey Devine-Scott was asked the question. Checking in with his football...
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French linebacker Digaan Gomis wasted no opportunity en route to Tropical Bowl All-Star game
Author H. Jackson Brown once wrote that nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. If that is the case, then Digaan Gomis has made...
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A year after IPP, France’s Yoann Miangue still chasing NFL dream on his own
Every year, the NFL selects a handful of players to join the league with a practice roster exemption through their International Player Pathway Program. Each...
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Lithuania’s Laurynas Orlovicius hopes expertise in the gym will earn him next pro football opportunity
Football players around the world dream of a chance to compete against top caliber American players, but when it comes to working out, it may...
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Latvia’s Karlis Brauns catching eyes of pro scouts, with and without pink hair
Karlis Brauns is used to turning heads when he walks into a room, but rarely quite like this. The Latvian defensive end has become one...
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Rice Bowl winner Tsubasa Takagi proves Japanese QBs not a thing of the X League past
It was last January, in the aftermath of the Fujitsu Frontiers first Japan X Bowl loss in five years, that a decision was made to...
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AFI’s All-Europe Team: Kicker – Phillip Friis Andersen, Hamburg Sea Devils
When the Hamburg Sea Devils‘ final field goal attempt of the 2021 ELF season fell short of the crossbar and ended their championship hopes, perhaps...
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AFI’s All-Europe Team: Offensive Line – Nick Wiens, Cologne Centurions
To paraphrase an old saying, in front of every great running back is a great offensive line. So, when the AFI voters sat down to...
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AFI’s All-Europe Team: Defensive Back – Joshua Poznanski, Frankfurt Galaxy
With the advent of the modern football passing attack, the idea of shutdown defense has become a thing of the past. Quarterbacks are too efficient...
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AFI’s All-Europe Team: Tight End – Adria Botella Moreno, Hamburg Sea Devils
A good tight end can be the perfect dichotomy: the ultimate safety blanket for your quarterback and an utter nightmare for the defense. Even at...
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AFI’s All-Europe Team: Defensive Interior – Aslan Zetterberg, Leipzig Kings
Those that ply their trade on the interior of the defensive line do so with the implicit understanding that their moments to grab the spotlight...
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AFI’s All-Europe Team: Offensive Line – Yasir Raji, Potsdam Royals
When it came to selections for AFI’s All-Europe team, no position group proved to be a more complex debate than offensive line. The depth of...
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AFI’s All-Europe Team: Defensive Line – Jan-Phillip Bombek, Hamburg Sea Devils
Some of the selections for AFI’s All-Europe team required extensive debate, with red-faced voters pounding the table for their favorite candidate before a winner finally...
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The Grey Cup is more than just Canada’s Super Bowl
In my first year of university, I took a political science course from a grizzled old professor who argued in his very first lecture that...
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Right timing, right people attracted DC Dave Likins to take job with ELF’s Wrocław Panthers
For the second straight off-season, the competition for players and coaches between the German Football League and the European League of Football has been the...
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IFAF Elections: Meet the Candidates – Jim Mullin (Canada)
As the second most successful football nation on earth, the idea that someone could be the face of football in Canada seems ludicrous. With an...
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Mexico’s Diego Alatorre has eyes set on pro football after historic Canadian college career
Later this month, the International Federation of American Football will elect a new Board of Directors, setting the course for the future of international competition...
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2021 CFL season featured Global starters, sack artists and first ever all-star
At times last year, it seemed like it would never come to fruition, but almost as soon as it began, the shortened 2021 Canadian Football...
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Legendary CFL coach Adam Rita ready to take the Catania Elephants to the next level
More than five decades into his illustrious coaching career, Adam Rita is still finding new challenges. The legendary Canadian Football League coach and general manager...
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Two years in, Thiadric Hansen still the benchmark for Global CFL success
Two weeks from now, just as the Canadian Football League’s shortened 2021 regular season is wrapping up, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers will mark the two-year...
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Potent passing attack earns Oslo Vikings fifth straight Norwegian title
It took an extra year thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Oslo Vikings are a top Norwegian football once again. While their matchup with...
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Success of European Coaches Convention key for growth of the game
Coaches are not born, they are made. While there is no doubt that there is certain innate personality traits that draw people to the profession,...
