Editor: USFooty's Revolution headed to Atlanta for their second training camp of the year last weekend. The following report courtesy of Chris Adams at our partner news site, usfootynews.com. Chris will continue to provide stories for the international readership on worldfootynews.com, as well as working on the dedicated United States website.

The Revos have three training camps planned before they head to Melbourne for the Australian Football International Cup, one camp in each region of the US. The Western training camp was in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. The Central training camp is this weekend in Atlanta. The Eastern traning camp will be April 12 as part of the Fort Lauderdale Spring Tournament at the new Broward County Cricket Stadium. The Fort Lauderdale camp will be the last opportunity for hopefuls to impress the coaches and USFooty plans to name their squad for Melbourne soon after the last training camp.

AFANA is still looking for a couple more writers to add to their team covering the AFL for the North American audience. In particular they need Adelaide and Sydney-based staff. They can organise AFL accreditation and the position offers an excellent chance for a budding young journalist to get some experience.

See Volunteers Needed for 2008 for more information.

Last year, this weekend saw AFL teams North Melbourne and the Sydney Swans at UCLA as part of the G’day USA festival. This year however, the match was replaced by an Australia vs England cricket match featuring Steve Waugh alongside Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson taking on Robbie Williams, Simon Jones and Daniel Radcliffe (who Carlton assure us is a fan of the Old Dark Navy Blues).

Sufficient funding was unable to be raised to get AFL clubs back to LA this year (see LA Clash off the Agenda).

Regardless, the USAFL, who played a Revolution v All comers game as the curtain raiser in 2007, were back in LA as part of the preparations for this year’s International Cup. Last year it was the UCLA grounds, but for this year's clash the grounds at Katella High School in Anaheim were used.

On the 19th of November 2007 the West Perth Falcons of the Western Australian Football League entered the second year of their international experiment with two brothers, Americans James and Jared Brunmeier. While a number of AFL clubs have looked to Ireland, the Falcons looked across the Pacific and found two Wisconsin boys. The Brunmeier brothers went to the Falcons November 2006 as part of an exchange program with the Milwaukee Bombers. They completed a full pre-season with the team and then a full season with the club. Both boys played reserves games throughout the year and made a major impression on the coaching staff and the club. Now they've been invited back for more.

While the NFL focus for many Aussies this year has been on Graham, Rocca and McBriar, it is a different kind of Aussie export to the NFL bringing big results for the locals. NFL rookie Daniel Sepulveda has credited the Aussie Rules drop punt for shoring up his punting game which has lead him to be named as the Joe Greene Great Performance Award for the team’s most outstanding rookie with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

In the article Sepulveda wins Steelers rookie honor on the Steelers' website, Sepulveda said "I knew in Waco one of the things I needed to work on, my most glaring weakness, was getting the ball inside the 20…It was during my senior year that I made the switch to the Australian rules football kick, the Aussie kick, but that kick has been awesome for me. I can go out there with 100 percent confidence that I will be able to hang it up there and get the guy to fair catch it inside the 20. We have had some success doing that this year and it’s been good."