Football Duty For God, Queen And Dominion

Team Canada Football came a calling, asking if I was interested towards joining up to workout and play for the senior national team, to help promote and foster international play of the Canadian Amateur Football game. Though still here at Redeemer for exams, I will be following their spring and summer tour which starts in Kentucky, which eventually has them play Team USA in Washington, NY PD/FD in New York City then end it with their Can-Am Bowl in Toronto. This final game, I would guess that it would become the continental qualifier for the World Cup in 2011, which Canada seems to have been slow to draw at.

I noted while down in Montana this summer, watching American football with my late grandmother and other family, that Canada did not have an international entry in the World Cup of American Football. Watching the Championship Final live from Kawasaki did not seem right, as the International Federation of American Football repeat champion Team Japan seemed to just roll over Team USA, with only a Yankee overtime win keeping them from a threepeat. This is something I would imagine could not happen with a Team Canada participating therein, even though IFAF General Secretary has now stated that neither Canada nor Mexico applied to qualify for WCAF 2007, giving Team USA direct qualification rather than just an invite.

So, it also sounds as though WCAF 2011 will include two Pan American clubs, as Team USA is now the world champion, which shall be either Mexico or Canada. If the NFL Under 19 Global Junior Football Championships since 1997 have been any indication, Team Mexico won the first two against Team Europe and then lost the next one to Europe, Team Canada then wins one against Europe, until Team USA beats Canada four times until finally Canada beats the USA thrice. So of course, it would be an honour and duty to eventually take up the invite, play for the senior national team. However, despite playing in a couple football championships at the midget, high school and junior levels, the last couple years of full academics and null athletics can not be ignored. Therefore, I will start training with intent to play for a Team Canada Football tour and international Can-Am Bowl championship in 2009 or 2010 then onto the qualifying game into WCAF 2011, for God, Queen and Dominion!