2008 EU Cup preview - England, Scotland and Austria

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2008 EU Cup preview - England, Scotland and Austria

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, October 09 2008 @ 10:58 pm ACDT

Ah, a difficult subject. Spain at IC05 was primarily the Madrid Bears, a fairly small program. Separately the Catalan region had got footy going. It's a semi-autonomous part of Spain with their own language (a bit different to "Spanish"), with the most well known city being Barcelona. So there are all kinds of historic issues that we won't go into here, but the bottom line is that the Catalan footy region is independent of the Madrid footy region. As far as I know, the Madrid region isn't going great guns, hence no Spain competing in IC08.

The Catalan region has had some ups and downs but seems on the up again, and they will compete at the EU Cup as Catalonia. Whether they would ever be recognised by the AFL for inclusion at the IC, I'm not sure, there were some mixed messages prior to IC08. Whether they would want to be involved with the AFL, I don't know, as they seem to have some other body they've set up, and purely from my point of view, I think there's quite a lot of confusion in Europe regarding which organisation is involved with who.

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