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American Football League China (AFLC) Set for 2015 Season Start on August 15
The third season of the American Football League of China, currently China’s only organized nationwide football league following the announcement of the Chinese Arena Football League’s...
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China: The Diary Of An International Leadership Team
July welcomed the first group of international athletic leaders to China to begin their fellowship with Gridiron Leaders Foundation (GLF). The GLF operates the China Gridiron...
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Gridiron Leaders Foundation Welcomes Their First Student Athletes to China
As we reported earlier this past spring, the Gridiron Leaders Foundation had launched a program to find candidates for a US/China initiative using American football to...
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CAFL to Kick-off China’s First Arena Football League in 2016
Originally scheduled for a mid September 2015 start, the Chinese Arena Football League (CAFL) has moved it inaugural season to 2016. According to a press release from...
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NFL Wants Piece of the Action in World’s Largest Market
When Ed Wang was a child, doctors predicted he would grow to be big and strong. He would, they projected, perhaps stretch to as tall...
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China: Gridiron Leaders Foundation Bringing Student Athletes to China to Develop as Leaders
Welcome to the Gridiron Leaders Foundation (GLF)! The Gridiron Leaders Foundation is a US/China initiative using American football to help develop student athletes into leaders...
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NFL Stars, American Football Without Barriers Teaching Football to Youth in Turkey
Four years ago, Cleveland Browns tight end Gary Barnidge and Breno Giacomini created American Football Without Barriers (AFWB). So far, it’s been a smashing success. The...
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China’s Super Bowl Viewers: Literally Monday-Morning Quarterbacks
Source: China Daily USA Football fans can knock back PBR Tall Boys, Coors Gold and, of course, Tsingtao beer at Home Plate BBQ, a Southern...
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Eight Teams Now Confirmed for 2015 IFAF World Championships in Canton, Ohio
After meetings held in Arlington, Texas in conjunction with the International Bowl, according to the official Mexican American Football website ONEFA eight teams (reduced from...
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AFI’s 12 Top Stories of 2014
Top Articles of 2014 The year started off slow but as we moved into April, May and June it really picked up. The game of...
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Australian Blake Muir hopes to reach NFL as next generation hint at bright future for American football
Baylor University offensive lineman Blake Muir is tipped to be the first Gridiron NSW product to be drafted by an NFL club and with more...
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If you want to play pro football, why not go to China?
Put China on your 2015 summertime schedule if you want to play pro football in the Far East Ken Bozarth is Head of Football Operations...
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American Football League of China Championships This Weekend
This weekend the Shanghai Nighthawks face the Shanghai Titans in the championship final of the American Football League of China. The 12 team top league...
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China Joins Professional American Football Wars
“This is historic… we’re bringing American football to China.” Written by William Hennelly Lou Tilley (holding football, below right), media relations director for AFL Global,...
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Jerry Rice Goes to Beijing as NFL Eyes Asian Fanbase
– Beijing, China Eager to entice 1.3 billion potential fans in the world’s second largest economy, the NFL dispatched legendary wide receiver Jerry Rice to...
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Shandong Flames Win Inaugural China University Championships
Shandong Flames defeat Hebei Nirvana 46-42; China’s First-Ever College Football Tournament a Success in Lead-Up to Pro League – Beijing, China In the first official...
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New College American Football League Begins in China
Hebei Nirvana Defeat Wuhan Nine Headed Birds 46-26 in Historic, First Ever American-Style College Game – Beijing, China With a snap of the football at 10:04am...
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College American Football to Kick Off in China
Lead Up to First Pro League; 6 Teams Will Play in Inaugural University Championships Oct 15th – 18th, 2014 – Philadelphia, PA For the first time...
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Middle Kingdom’s Newest Dynasty: Meet the American Football League of China
American Football League of China Kicks Off 2014 Campaign Over six thousands miles from the nearest NFL game, the American Football League of China...
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New Chinese American Football League to Kick-off in 2015
AFL’s Philadelphia Soul co-owner announces new league in China! Regardless of the political and economic tensions between the U.S. and China, a new American football league...
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Ecuador: Historic First American Football Camp & Game in Quito!
Two teams will play the first official game of American Football in the history of Ecuador! There is some exciting football news coming out of...
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VIDEO: NFL China, University Flag Football Highlights
“Far East American Football!” Check out the organization and passion behind these teams playing American Flag Football in China! This sport as well as traditional American...
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VIDEO: Shanghai Nighthawks, American Football in China!
Shanghai Nighthawks are China’s first American Football team! Via Nighthawks Facebook Page – In the summer of 2011, a community of football enthusiasts between Gameday China...
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China’s Beijing Guardians!!
Far East American Football! Didn’t think American Football could make it in Asia? Well it is exploding in China, and the in the near future...
