2010 Women's Football World Championship

[SuperHornet]

The Paris-based International Federation of American Football is sponsoring a six-nation Women's World Championship tournament (including Team USA) in Stockholm, Sweden, this June and July. Team USA, expected to be named 1 Feb, will be a 45-woman all-star team selected from members of the Independent Women's Football Leauge. I'm hoping for several Sacramento Sirens to be on the squad. Per the IFAF, competitive women's football is played in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Venezuela, and the United States; the six participating nations were supposed to have been named 1 December, but I've seen no official list as of yet.

The IFAF has been sponsoring men's World Championships (senior every four years since 1999 and junior starting in 2009 and 2012, every two years thereafter), though Team USA apparently didn't get involved until 2007, when they stopped Japan's 8-year stranglehold on the title in Tokyo with a 23-20 OT win for the title; Team USA beat Korea 77-0 and Germany 33-7 in pool play. Japan beat Mexico for the World Championship 6-0 (OT) in Palermo, ITA (1999) and Mexico again 34-14 in Frankfurt, GER (2003). The first Junior World Championship was held in Canton, OH, in 2009, with Team USA beating Canada 41-3 in the title game after taking down France 78-0 and Mexico 55-0 in pool play.

http://www.ifaf.org/articles/view/282/L ... BhZ2U6Mg==