CEAFL comes to Zagreb for 2008

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CEAFL comes to Zagreb for 2008

Authored by: Julian Clark
on Monday, March 24 2008 @ 10:51 pm ACDT

Any nationalities are allowed to take part in the tournament. However teams are encouraged to have as many locals as possible, followed by Europeans.

I don't know where you get the ideas that these are only friendlies ??? These are extremely competitive matches.

It doesn't matter what happens at the Dubai end, the CEAFL is only open to National Representative teams (and possibly a Rest of Europe team)

I have a flyer from the original tourament in Madrid which states:

"Participation is open to National Teams representing AFL organisations in Central Europe.

The origin, citizenship or residential status of players, officials & supporters is not restricted.

Individuals are welcome to join registered teams and/or to form a "Rest of Europe" team"

The priority for forming "National Teams representing AFL organisations in Central Europe" followed a right of refusal type of scenario... ("right of refusal" is not the right words - this is more from contract negotiations - whereas in footy tournaments, it is more of an invitation)

ie: The official national team (if exists) are invited first, and they have the right to attend, however if they "refuse" the right to attend, then (an)other organisation(s) within that nation can take up the mantle and represent that nation. Finally non-organisations can pick up the ball and run with it (whilst bouncing of course).

Personally - I am not sure UAE should be participating, since they are not part of Europe... although the EU Cup did have Israel in 2005 (so maybe EU Cup is a better option for them... and they could be called Dubai there - as there is a precedent of provincial teams: Catalonia).

We shall see what the future holds.

CEAFL comes to Zagreb for 2008

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Tuesday, March 25 2008 @ 01:00 am ACDT

I figured I'd get picked up on the word friendlies. Doesn't mean they aren't competitive matches, but I wonder say if the given countries go on to become big Australian Football playing countries, whether they'd look upon such early games as full internationals or more as informal (but important) developmental matches.

The point about right of refusal is important. It's good that national bodies are given first choice, but if they don't play for whatever reason, the team that does go isn't officially recognised as that country's side is it? It's a technical point I guess. But say if Ireland said no thank you, but a few players from the Dublin Demons turned up with some Aussie tourists, yes they would be "representing" Ireland for tournament purposes. But if they played Croatia, would Croatia consider that an official match of Ireland versus Croatia?

A similar example would be if NZ invited the Australian cricket team to a tournament but Australia declined but Queensland sent a team, it's a bit tough calling them Australia, and long term NZ and Australia would not count it as such. By all means for the purposes of getting some matches on in developing footy countries it's important to have tournaments like the CEAFL but are they official matches? Obviously you're well placed to answer that Rooster.

If the answer is yes, I'm curious as to the primary rationale behind it. Is the billing of club teams as national sides (when other clubs or national sides exist) primarily for promotional purposes? Online discussions can be difficult, so note I'm not trying to stir up trouble here, I'm just curious as to the rationale behind what is a common occurrence for footy tournaments around the world. We are supportive of the CEAFL, hence the original story.

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