It's so far! We are in the World Cup Week! In four days, the fourth American Football World Championship at the Innsbruck Tivoli officially with the game USA vs. Australia opened.The players and fans can expect an unforgettable spectacle, show, action and sports at the highest level.
Around the teams and the World Cup there are some interesting facts:
- 21 players from all participating nations have either NFL Europe experience, or have trained with NFL teams.
- 29 officials from 12 countries will meet at the World Cup several functions. Including two women - a lady from Austria and one from Serbia .
- Every four years the world championships are held. It all began in 1999 in Palermo, Italy, 2003 Frankfurt, Germany, 2007 Tokyo, Japan and 2011 in Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna, Austria.
- In the Australian team is Ben Graham of the Arizona Cardinals a true NFL star.
- Austria's head coach Rick Rhoades is not only in Austria with the national team and the Graz Giants great success! In America, he won the NCAA Division II Troy University Championship.
- For the first time ever takes the Austrian National Team participated in a World Cup.
- The roster of Team Canada, all 13 players are from the Canadian Professional League CFL.
- Head Coach of Canada's record holder in his homeland as a coach with the masters of those victories at the Canadian University Football - 178 wins, 47 defeats and four draws.
- The first time, Canada also takes part in a world championship.
- Since the last World Cup in Japan, France, completed only four friendly matches. With second place at the European Championship in Frankfurt last year qualified for the Les Bleus the World Cup.
- 19 European Champion in the 75 man roster can be found in Germany for the World Cup.
- Germany's Jerome Morris is a native Texan, will accrue at the World Cup but for black-red-gold.
- Players from 20 teams find themselves on the roster of European champions Germany .
- More than 100 Japanese universities have their own football team. In the 1930s, Americans have shown the Japanese the game. The battered nation's disasters by the two-time champion and won the first country in general, the first IFAF World Championship in 1999. In Graz, the player starts the mission "title reconquest."
- Mexico travel with some players to the already in NFL training camps have gained much experience - Linebacker, Educardo Casta Dena (Arizona Cardinals), defensive tackle Mauricio Lopez (Oakland Raiders), linebacker Manuel Padilla (Denver Broncos), Tackle Ramiro Pruneda ( San Fracisco 49ers) and Saloman Solano (Baltimore Ravens).
- Pruneda and Solano are team-mates at the Green Bay Blizzard in the Professional Indoor Football League.
- American quarterback Matt bassu has an "International Affairs" degree, speaks five languages and has already played football in Mexico and Finland.
- The Americans can boast that the NCAA All Time Leading Rusher, Nate kmic of Mount Union, the team have to.
- With Diezas Calbert and Demetrius Eaton, two located in the current world champion U.S. team and be as enthusiastic about the rest of the team, the fans at Innsbruck's Tivoli.
- U.S. Defensive Backs Coach Steve Bernstein is Vietnam veteran and former Marine Captain who was awarded the Purple Heart.
Source: AFBÖ - Markus Riedlmayer
