Welcome to World Footy News Friday, March 07 2025 @ 01:54 pm ACDT
Irish manager Paul Earley, captain Michael Murphy and Irish selector Ja Fallon speak about this week's upcoming Test match at Kingspan Breffni Park against Australia.
AFL Canada today announced a 37 man Team Canada Northwind squad for the 2014 International Cup in Melbourne. The squad containing plenty of familiar names from the past International Cups and some fresh faces.
Canada finished tenth at the 2011 International Cup and are currently ranked 14th in the World Footy News unofficial World Rankings.
The full squad can be seen below.
Ireland have named their 23 man team ahead of the upcoming International Rules Series Tests against Australia in Ireland. The first Test is this Saturday 19th of October at Kingspan Breffni Park.
Among the named squad Australian football followers will recognise Carlton’s Zach Tuohy and former Brisbane/St Kilda player Colm Begley. Chrissy McKaigue played with the Sydney Swans reserves, and Michael Shields lasted half a season with the Carlton Football Club before deciding to go back to Ireland.
Ciaran Kilkenny who left Hawthorn before the season started this year and Ciaran Byrne who has signed with Carlton to be on the club’s list as an International Rookie in 2014 have also been named.
The squad is as follows
Alex Benjamin will again be broadcasting from the US Nationals this year in Austin. You can access his UStream channel at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/usafl-weekly. He tells us he will actually be broadcasting 40 shows and approximately 56 hours coverage of the 2013 Nationals starting this past Sunday afternoon US time. For the full schedule check out his blog at http://usaflweeklyreport.com/
The following story courtesy usafl.com
The USAFL is excited to announce there will be an AFL contingent attending the 2013 Nationals. St. Kilda Saints Captain Nick Riewoldt will be in Austin on Sunday, October 20 for the finals and participate in pre-game ceremonies and awards presentations.
Riewoldt’s newest teammate American Jason Holmes who signed a 2-year international rookie contract with the Saints earlier this month, will also make the trip to Austin. Holmes journey to the AFL began in April at the secondAFL US Combine in Los Angeles. After the combine Holmes returned home to Chicago where he began training with the Chicago Swans in hopes the AFL would call and he would be prepared to take advantage of the opportunity. His hard work has paid off and he is excited to begin his AFL career.
The Indigenous All Stars squad has used its final training session before representing Australia in Ireland to call for the first 40,000 years of Australia’s history to be recognised in our nation’s Constitution.
The VAFA are two thirds of the way through their tour of Ireland playing three International Rules format matches. In their first match in County Cork they easily defeated Na Piarsaigh by 86 points and in the second match they went down by 18 points to the combined Dublin Universities team.
Later tonight local time they will play the All Ireland Gaelic football team in the final match of the tour in Cavan.
Results and match reports below.
The Zagreb Hawks have this year won the Croatian league for the first time since their foundation in 2006.
The 9-a-side league, featuring 3 Croatian clubs and the Downunder Dogs from Graz, Austria, has seen the Zagreb Hawks come runners-up on a number of occasions, but never clinch the big prize.
After reaching the low point of their history in 2012, struggling to field a full side and losing to the Velika Gorica Bombers (now the Dockers), Zaprude Giants and Downunder Dogs, this year was completely something different.
From October 2012, the Hawks undertook a rebuilding program and have since grown the largest playing numbers in the league. This included trading Milijan Mamić to the Dockers in return for Tomislav Cvetko - Knights captain and European Championship 2013 top scorer - and unearthing some young guns such as Josip Habljak, selected in the ruck for the All-European team from the 2013 European Championships.
Ireland have named a 29 man squad ahead of the upcoming International Rules Series Tests against Australia in Ireland. This squad is expected to be shortened to 23 closer to the first Test.
Among the named squad Australian football followers will recognise Carlton’s Zach Tuohy and former Brisbane/St Kilda player Colm Begley. Chrissy McKaigue played with the Sydney Swans reserves, and Michael Shields lasted half a season with the Carlton Football Club before deciding to go back to Ireland.
Others that had short stints in Australia are John Heslin at Richmond (he also played in the winning Irish team at IC11) and Ciaran Kilkenny who left Hawthorn before the season started this year.
Ciaran Byrne has signed with Carlton to be on the club’s list as an International Rookie in 2014.
The squad is as follows
St Kilda has secured the services of young Hawthorn midfielder Shane Savage plus the Hawks' first round selection (pick 17) in the 2013 NAB AFL National Draft in exchange for Saints ruckman Ben McEvoy.
Thanks to Zain Nabi for the following article.
Pakistan Shaheen Team Manager Kashif Bouns has welcomed the overwhelming response from the Pakistani community in Australia, particularly the students, who have strongly backed the idea of entering the 2014 Australia Football League International Cup.
Following submission of nomination papers with the AFL, the Shaheens are now in the team building phase. Bouns believes students will play a handy role in forming a competitive unit. “I think the core of the team will be international students because the majority of Pakistanis here are students,” he says.
Apart from hiring athletes, the Shaheens are also shaping their organisational infrastructure and they have urged the Pakistani community here to participate in all the possible ways, and take up the ownership of this project.
Last weekend the first ever game of AFL played by women in NZ was held against the visiting Australia Breeze Youth Girls Team.
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