Swedish DL Benjamin Banks Egbudiwe re-signs with Finland’s Helsinki Wolverines
The Helsinki Wolverines, 2020 Maple Bowl finalists, have re-signed giant Swedish defensive lineman Benjamin Banks Egbudiwe for the 2021 season. The 6’4″, 260 pound, 28 year old from Uppsala, Sweden...
View ArticleSweden: Örebro Black Knights sign Sam Eisenstadt as new HC
The Örebro Black Knights have hired from within to find their new head coach as they have signed the man who was intended to be defensive coordinator this past season, Sam Eisdenstadt. The 24 year old...
View ArticleAFI’s All Pandemic Team: Offensive Line – Right Tackle Niklas Johansson,...
Carlstad Crusaders right tackle Niklas Johansson played in his 100th consecutive Swedish Super Series game on October 24 and it just happened to also be the Swedish championship game. His Crusaders...
View ArticleAFI’s All-Pandemic Team: Wide receiver – Alpha Jalloh, Wasa Royals /...
The AFI All-Pandemic Team selection committee had a extremely difficult time in choosing the 22 members of the first team but not in the case of wide receiver Alpha Jalloh. Jalloh was a unanimous...
View ArticleAFI’s All-Pandemic Team: Defensive Back – Niko Lester – Carlstad Crusaders,...
The AFI All-Pandemic Team selection panel was faced with a dilemma in the case of defensive back Niko Lester. Not whether he should be on the team. There was no question about that. He was definitely...
View ArticleAaron Fiddler returns to Sweden’s Örebro Black Knights as offensive coordinator
When the Örebro Black Knights called up Aaron Fiddler, it was to get his advice on a quarterback who could also serve as offensive coordinator, not to hire him. General manager Micael Jönsson had no...
View ArticleCarlstad Crusaders re-sign title-winning quarterback Danny Farley
The Carlstad Crusaders took an important step to defending their newly-won Swedish title with the re-signing of the quarterback who got them there, Danny Farley. This past fall, Farley led Carlstad to...
View ArticleAFI’s All-Pandemic Team: Corner – Darius Lewis, Carlstad Crusaders
The AFI All-Pandemic Team selection committee pored over hours and hours of game film watching the defensive secondaries of all the teams and kept coming back to watch Darius Lewis. Lewis, the anchor...
View ArticleAFI’s All-Pandemic Team: LB – William James, Helsinki Wolverines, Uppsala 86ers
No one ever claimed that picking a team of all stars from the teams who played during the pandemic would be easy. With so many great linebackers it was all that more difficult but the name of Helsinki...
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Keanu Ebanks: Leading the charge from Leeds to Germany to Sweden
Keanu Ebanks is a big man…the 26 year old 6’6 300 pound offensive lineman played the 2020 season with the Stockholm Mean Machines in the Swedish Superserien after spending the 2018 and 2019 seasons...
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Nikolas Knoblauch: 2020’s most traveled import
As the Badalona Dracs played their first game of the 2020 Spanish League of American Football season, one standout defender on the field was German-Italian import linebacker Nikolas Knoblauch....
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Darius Lewis returns to Carlstad, his “new home” in Europe
On October 24, as the clock showed all zeros, Sweden’s Carlstad Crusaders stormed their home field embracing each other after winning the 2020 Swedish Championship, their first since 2017 and ninth...
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AFI’s All Pandemic Team – The Full Squad
In case anyone missed it, throughout December we presented our picks at each position for the AFI All-Pandemic Team. Since late July, leagues in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Austria and Japan have...
View ArticleSweden’s Örebro Black Knights sign QB Trevor Vasey
The Örebro Black Knights who play in the Swedish Superserien, have signed former Worcester State University quarterback Trevor Vasey to lead the team. The 6’6″, 220 pound 27 year old Vasey from...
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Alpha Jalloh continued his European journey with a pandemic year to remember
If you watched football in Europe during this pandemic summer, one name kept popping out. Alpha Jalloh Jalloh’s 2020 seasons was simply outstanding. It started off with the Wasa Royals in Finland...
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Eddie Onamade: Championship winning football export from Bristol, England
When the scoreboard clock hit all zeros on October 24, 2020, the Carlstad Crusaders began celebrating. They had just captured their first Swedish championship since 2017 but they had also prevented...
View ArticleCentral European Football League set to return in 2021 with Germany added
The Central European Football League, Europe’s major club team tournament, will return in 2021 after taking a hiatus in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eleven teams, including eight national...
View ArticleSwedish champion Carlstad Crusaders sign Tim Morovick as QB
The reigning Swedish champion Carlstad Crusaders have signed Timothy Morovick as their quarterback for the 2021 season. Ironically, Morovick was the quarterback for Carlstad’s arch rivals in 2020, the...
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Osos Rivas RB Mike Gentili is living the life he was meant to in memory of...
At one point or another, we’ve all faced the same nagging question in life. Am I on the right path? Am I doing what fulfills me? Is this where I’m supposed to be? Most people simply clear their heads...
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Sweden’s Carlstad Crusaders sign Serbian WR Strahinja Stepovic
Swedish reigning champions, the Carlstad Crusaders, have signed one of the most dangerous receivers/defensive backs in Europe, Strahinja Stepovic from Serbia. The versatile 6’2″, 195 pound 28 year old,...
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