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Top 15 offensive weapons in the ELF
Defense may win championships, but offense sells the tickets. We are just a couple of weeks away from the kickoff of the second season of...
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2022 CFL Global Draft primer: Amazing array of international talent up for grabs
Since 2019, the Canadian Football League has looked abroad for talent, mandating teams bring in international athletes as a part of the league’s Global program....
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ELF pre-season quarterback rankings offer surprises
The European League of Football is set to kick off their second season on June 4 after massive expansion, adding four new franchises to the...
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Leipzig Kings receiver Anthony Dablé-Wolf back like he never left
The European League of Football is about to enter its second season and one of the league’s most recognizable stars is returning with it. On...
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Top performers from the CFL Global Combine
Canadians often joke that Toronto is the center of the universe, but last weekend it was at the very least the center of international football...
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‘My gun is ready’: Ukrainian football players, coaches drawn into the war with Russia
War and football. For many with no concept of conflict, they make fitting allegories. Men in armor clashing on a field of battle. The ultimate...
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Barbera Rookies upset Spanish hierarchy with victory over Badalona Dracs
For the past five seasons, the story in Spanish football has been exactly the same. Upstarts have come and gone, but the Badalona Dracs have...
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Canadian connections got quarterback Brett Hunchak to Thonon Black Panthers
They say it’s not what you know, but who you know that is most important in pro sports. For Thonon Black Panthers quarterback Brett Hunchak,...
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All-star game experience proves All22’s international scouts belong in the room where it happens
While fans will have their eyes glued to the field until a Super Bowl champion has been crowned this weekend, another NFL season is already...
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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...
