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High Performance Mental Training Growing In Sports
When people think of sports training, the first thought someone might have is a player running drills to work on speed, or hitting the weights...
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The Football Season in Portugal Producing Fireworks
The Lisboa Devils and Cascais Crusaders staged a Super Bowl Sunday shootout, the Braga Warriors and Braga Black Knights finished with a shutout while the...
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Spain’s Second Week Featured A Thriller
The Spanish league season finished its second week with the newest team in the league, the Barbera Rookies, giving the defending champion Valencia Firebats all they...
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NFL Edges Closer to UK-based Franchise
The United Kingdom‘s bid to play host to a permanent NFL franchise appears to be edging ever closer, potentially opening the door for other overseas...
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From Paris to Concordia University… and the Super Bowl
Feature image: Jean-Baptiste Laporte joined the Carolina Panthers in 2013 | Courtesy of Jean-Baptiste Laporte As Super Bowl 50 approaches, Jean-Baptiste Laporte, a Concordia University grad, recaps...
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Modern football performance goes far beyond who is the strongest and fastest
The first image many have for sports training is a player running drills to work on speed or hitting the weights to work on power...
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Super Bowl 2016: Is Europe confused about the Superbowl?
The Super Bowl remains one of the biggest sporting events in the world and will be broadcast around 185 countries in 30 different languages. A...
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Croatia/Flag Football: American Football is a way of life for the Dubrovnik Sharks
Story by The Dubrovnik Times Jan 29, 2016 Croatia is a sports mad country, you name it and they will play it. From athletics to...
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Video: The Shanghai Warriors Title Win In China Was Historic
The American Football League of China’s championship game was historic in more ways than one. Not only was it the first title for the winners,...
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Life After Football: The Art of Watching Game Film
Whether you are a player or a coach, you have to study game film. Former coach and now author, Alex Kirby, offers some valuable insight...
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4 Common Mistakes Athletes Make in the Offseason
Fierce athletes know there’s nothing “off” about the offseason – those weeks and months are all about preparing to come back better and stronger than...
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IFAF Headed Toward Total Split
It was inevitable. A split. There has been an air of quiet surrounding the International Federation of American Football ever since the walkout of delegates...
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4 foundations to building the best teammates
Everybody wants to be a great teammate. Everyone wants great teammates, too. But what does that mean? A strong team player is able to build...
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Strength & Conditioning: Functional Movement Training For Football
Functional movement training has garnered lots of publicity over the past few years. Since strength and conditioning was first introduced about 30 years ago, training...
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Sacrifice brings great reward
There are many individuals who have made countless sacrifices in my life to ensure that I had the opportunity to be successful. As I reflect...
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Football Specific Strength Training From Sweden
Johan Stål is a well known name in Swedish American football. He just finished his 18th season of playing for both his hometown Örebro Black Knights...
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Germany native Kasim Edebali executing “Plan B” with Saints
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — What German-born Saints linebacker Kasim Edebali jokingly refers to as ”Plan B” seems to be working out rather well. A decade...
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Meet the Smartest Guys On The Football Field
In the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl Thursday Dec. 31, the Clemson Tigers defeated Oklahoma 37-17 while in the CFP Goodyear Cotton...
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Can the US ever get Europeans to like American football?
Plans are afoot for the US sporting giant, the NFL, to expand into Europe. But, as Jules Gray asks, is the demand there for such...
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Want more speed? 7 Steps to a Faster 40 Yard Dash
The 40-yard dash is the ultimate measurement of speed in football. Prospective NFL players are given bigger contracts or passed over entirely based on how...
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Football Season in Portugal Heats Up
The final round of games before the Christmas break in Portugal offered plenty of excitement as the Lisboa Devils and Cascais Crusaders combined for 14...
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9 Exercises to Perform Better on the Field
In American Football International’s continuing series of articles offering features and information on off-season training and conditioning, this article by Tammy Kovaluk on Stack.com gives us nine...
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Shanghai Warriors Advance To The American Football League of China Championship Game
The Shanghai Warriors are returning to the American Football League of China (AFLC) championship game after downing the Chongqing Dockers 44-30 on a windswept Shanghai University field....
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The Game’s Global Presence: Several International Players Reflect on Their Paths to Global Football
When Adam Gotsis was a child, college football was a foreign concept. The sport was relatively unknown in Gotsis’s hometown of Abbotsford, Australia; he could...
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5 team building fundamentals that Bill Walsh lived by
Link to original article in USA Football When discussing who the greatest NFL head coach is, the variety of names generally breaks down by where...