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O’Leary: A year after historic game, women refs look to the future
By CHRIS O’LEARY, SENIOR WRITER, @OLEARYCHRIS No matter how big the dream and no matter how many times you may have tried to speak it into...
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Inside view of the CFL’s first South American Combine in Brazil
By Santino Filoso Brazil is a country best known for samba, sun and soccer. But Saturday morning in Belo Horizonte, the focus was rain, football...
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Brazil’s Pais, Polastri Neto earn invites to CFL Combine
Receiver Klaus Pais and linebacker Luis Polastri Neto have become the first Brazilian players to be extended invitations to showcase their skills for Canadian Football...
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LIVESTREAM: CFL Combine in Brazil – Saturday, March 7, 9a local time (7a ET, 1p CET)
The Canadian Football League Global scouting contingent has arrived in Belo Horizonte, Brazil where it will hold the second to last Global CFL Combine at the Centrol Esportivo...
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Norway’s Leo Krafft is truly living the football dream
Massive Norwegian defensive lineman Leo Krafft has fulfilled another football dream after being selected to compete in the CFL Combine later this month in Toronto....
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Canadian Football League scouts travel to South America for CFL-Brazilian Combine
The Canadian Football League Global scouting contingent makes its way to Belo Horizonte, Brazil this weekend for the second to last Global CFL Combine. In cooperation...
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Second wave of Global players invited to CFL Combine
The Canadian Football League (CFL) and its international partners have announced an additional 11 athletes who will take part in the CFL Combine presented by...
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CFL’s way too early Power Rankings
We’re now three months past the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ historic, dry-spell-snapping Grey Cup win. Since that confetti-filled night in Calgary, we’ve seen widespread change across...
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Future promising for growing Mexican LFA league
Although it’s played in stadiums no bigger than your local community field, you can tell the Mexican Liga de Futbol Americano is a small league...
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Future CFL Hall of Famer SJ Green set to play for XFL’s Tampa Bay Vipers
Not only did future CFL Hall of Fame receiver SJ Green decide to test the waters in the brand new XFL, he also managed to...
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CFL announces first 24 Global invitees to CFL Combine
The Canadian Football League (CFL) and its international partners have announced the first 24 global players who will take part in the CFL Combine in...
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Japan’s Tomoya Machino embarks on a journey of a lifetime
For a Japanese country boy who didn’t start playing football until college, Tomoya Machino cut an impressive figure at the CFL Global Combine held in...
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Italy’s Lorenzo Dalle Piage switched from swimming to football and never looked back
When Lorenzo Dalle Piagge was picked from among 26 hopefuls at the CFL Global Combine in Italy to travel to Toronto in late March for...
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Spain 14th gridiron league to team up with CFL
Spain’s Federación Española de Fútbol Americano (FEFA) has partnered with the Canadian Football League (CFL) to become the 14th nation to join the global movement....
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A British take on the CFL Global Combine in Great Britain
The Canadian Football League has launched a global outreach program unlike any other. Throughout January, scouts and coaches from Canada crisscrossed Europe to assess some...
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Japan’s Taku Lee and Tomoya Machino advance to CFL Combine
Running back Taku Lee and offensive lineman Tomoya Machino have become the first Japanese players to be extended invitations to showcase their skills for Canadian...
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Germany’s Sven Breidenbach man on a mission
Grit, determination, and single-mindedness could be used to describe the character of any number of highly successful athletes, but maybe not a 30-year-old offensive lineman...
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British linebacker David Izinyon thrilled to get picked
When British linebacker David Izinyon was told at the end of the CFL Global Combine in Bristol, England that he would be headed to Toronto...
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Germans Niklas Liesen and Sven Breidenbach headed to CFL Combine
Offensive lineman Sven Breidenbach and linebacker Niklas Liesen have been extended invitations to showcase their skills for Canadian Football League (CFL) general managers, coaches and...
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Italian DE Lorenzo Dalle Piagge invited to CFL Combine in Toronto
Defensive lineman Lorenzo Dalle Piage has been extended an invitation to showcase his skills for Canadian Football League (CFL) general managers, coaches and scouts in...
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British linebacker David Izinyon earns invite to the CFL Combine
Linebacker David Izinyon has been extended an invitation to showcase his skills for Canadian Football League (CFL) general managers, coaches and scouts in Toronto for...
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LIVESTREAM: Italy welcomes the CFL Global Combine to Florence
The Canadian Football League takes its CFL Global Combine roadshow to Florence Italy, Saturday, January 25 and working with the Italian Federation of American Football, FIDAF,...
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French defensive back Tony Anderson persevering through speed bumps
At the CFL Global Combine held in Paris, France, maybe the most competitive combine of the three held so far, cornerback Tony Anderson from Elancourt,...
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Thiadric Hansen: ‘I want to represent the Global program well’
KRISTINA COSTABILE, CFL.CA, @KCOSTABILE It’s been two months since Thiadric Hansen and his Winnipeg Blue Bombers hoisted the Grey Cup, defeating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for the...
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O’LEARY: Greg Quick assesses three ‘Phenomenal Global Combines’
CHRIS O’LEARY, SENIOR WRITER, @OLEARYCHRIS He’s seen three different cities in a week, been exposed to three different languages and dozens of different football players....
