Global players

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Global players making their presence felt as CFL enters final third of the season
By JC Abbott on 09/16/2022
The Canadian Football League season is entering its final third and as the playoff picture comes into focus, so too are international athletes with the...
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Global Domination: Noke Tago, Karlis Brauns impress on bench
By CFL on 03/28/2022
TORONTO — They came from two different corners of the world and put in the two best showings on the bench at the CFL Combine,...
CFL aligns Global Draft date with CFL Draft on May 3
By CFL on 02/28/2022
fTORONTO – For the first time, the Global Draft will take place on the same day as the CFL Draft, bringing an entire class of...
Global players taking on bigger roles as CFL season enters stretch run
By JC Abbott on 10/14/2021
The Canadian Football League is rounding the corner into the regular season stretch run and with just six weeks left in the shortened 2021 campaign,...
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Danish RT Steven Nielsen performs well in first CFL start
By JC Abbott on 08/16/2021
The Edmonton Elks have had a dreadful start to the season, but their 30-13 loss to the Montreal Alouettes on Saturday featured a triumph for...
BC Lions: Yamasaki | “I take pride in being one of the first Japanese players.”
By BC Lions on 08/05/2021
By Matt Baker, @BakesTakes84 If his first five weeks on Canadian soil have been a culture shock, imagine what will be going through the head...
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Explaining CFL roster rules and what they mean for Global athletes
By JC Abbott on 08/01/2021
It has been said that managing a Canadian Football League roster is the toughest job in pro sports. While the NFL operates quite simply with...
Tough competition around the league as Global players vie for jobs in CFL training camp
By JC Abbott on 07/22/2021
Canadian football is back and so are the pro football dreams of more than 30 international athletes fighting for a job through the CFL’s Global...
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13 returning Global players under contract ahead of CFL free agency
By JC Abbott on 02/05/2021
The CFL Global initiative is set to expand in 2021 despite a canceled 2020 season, growing the number of active roster players from outside Canada...
CFL: Global players set to make history as season kicks off
By CFL on 06/12/2019
TORONTO — As 2019 kickoff approaches, the Canadian Football League will make history this weekend when nine Global players take the field with their respective...
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Germany’s Max Zimmermann one of five Europeans who survived the cut; will play in the CFL this year
By AFI on 06/10/2019
German wide receiver Max Zimmermann is one of five European CFL players who found out Saturday that the dream will continue. Zimmermann was informed late...
CFL teams to carry one global player on roster this season
By TSN on 05/20/2019
According to TSN Football Insider Dave Naylor, CFL teams will each carry one global player on their roster this season, and two starting in the...
Mini-Camp Report | Global players begin CFL dreams
By CFL on 05/16/2019
MATT BAKER, @BAKESTAKES84 The CFL’s relationship with Mexico may still be fresh and hard for some to get used to, but it’s been 27 years in...
O’Leary: Global players ‘fit right in’ at the CFL Combine
By CFL on 03/27/2019
CHRIS O’LEARY, SENIOR WRITER, @OLEARYCHRIS To the untrained eye, Craig Dickenson said on Sunday afternoon, a fan might have walked into the CFL Combine presented by New...
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CFL Combine 2019 – How well did European players test?
By AFI on 03/25/2019
For the first time ever, 18 players from five different countries outside North America took part in the CFL Combine presented by New Era. The...
CFL’s international player combine a small step in the right direction
By Postmedia on 03/25/2019
Dan Barnes, Postmedia More from Dan Barnes, Postmedia To no one’s surprise, the architect of the Canadian Football League’s global outreach strategy declared victory here...