(S30) PT 1 - Going International

[Goat_Whisperer]

Blago Kokot was born in Croatia. For many years now, he has spent few weeks of each summer coaching in a football camp. The Croatian kids get to learn the basics of football from a professional player. When Yellowknife announced that they will be sending someone around the world to teach the people about football, Kokot was a natural choice as he has experience organizing and running a similar program.

Where Kokot ended up going? Switzerland. The country is not a well-known football country, yet at least. When Kokot arrived in Switzerland he saw the beautiful nature and was impressed. As Kokot met the people who took part in the football program, the very first thing he did was ask everybody to put their coats on and follow him outside. There he took a ball and kicked it over the tallest building in the area. The people were amazed. Few lucky ones got to try themselves, but broken windows and missed kicks were the results.

The program was officially started. Kokot was to spend at least a couple of weeks in Switzerland to help get the program running. In many ways, that was not anything new to Kokot, he had already done the same thing in Croatia. The participants in Switzerland will get to enjoy top-notch facilities and coaching from actual professionals. Kokot is more than likely asked to come back in the future to teach everything he knows about his position.

The main goal is to help football to become more popular in Switzerland and hopefully get more and more players from the country to ISFL.

[.simo]

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[C9Van]

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[Fronk]

The Minnesota Grey Ducks were contacted by villages near the north pole in order to run a football camp to teach the game of American football. The villages were located in the northern parts of Greenland and are almost completely frozen desert. After weeks of constant correspondence and pleading, the Minnesota Grey Ducks have agreed to send a couple of players to run a small football camp. The team has chosen one of their new season 30 captains, LaCarpetron Dukemarriot, linebacker and defensive captain. As captain, LaCarpetron Dukemarriot was assigned to recruit who would accompany him into the arctic circle to run the camp. After evaluation of skills (and mostly giving the short straw to rookies), Dukemarriot chose to bring along rookie defensive end, Morpheus Czargyros.

Duke and Morpheus Czargyros led a camp of tackling. They figured it was too cold to learn how to throw, catch, and kick, but not too cold to learn the fundamentals of tackling another object. They first practiced how to tackle with immovable objects (mostly snowmen that LaCarpetron Dukemarriot has a knack of building) and eventually began leading polar bear hunting packs and tackling the beasts to submission. Morpheus Czargyros was taken to native sweat lodges and there he learned the fundamentals of becoming sizzlin’ to stay hot.


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[Void_DCXI]

The New York Silverbacks were contacted by a foreign country, interested in one of their players coming over to teach them football. Having just won the Ultimus, the Silverbacks had a lot of options. It could be @zaynzk because of his great leadership and teaching abilities. It also could have been @dogwoodmaple because dogwood is cool and everybody loves him. Ultimately, the Silverbacks decided to send @TeyonSchavari to the country. An American hero, Teyon fought in world war 2, was frozen for decades and is now a running back for New York. Having experience in the foreign relations department, he seemed like a good choice. As he is getting older, he has also had to mentor young players on the Silverbacks, such as myself. So there he went, traveling via fighter jet, and waving goodbye to his teammates beforehand. Once he got there, he got to work. He assembled the country’s best and brightest aspiring footballers and put them in a hunger games like tournament to test their toughness. Some may call it inhumane, and they’re probably right but Captain Rogers does not operate by conventional rules. Once the games were done, he had whittled down his class to the toughest in the country. Then he just showed videos of old football clips while he sat in the back eating popcorn. This is clearly the kind of leadership one would want. Now that the players were tough and intelligent, it was finally time to show them how to play. Captain Rogers flawlessly played every position in a stunning display of athleticism and football IQ. He taught the young players perfectly. At the end of it all, Rogers simply waved goodbye and got back on his fighter jet, never to be seen again. The new football team ultimately lost their first game, 59-0.

[IceBear32]

This prompt is right up the Ultimate Fan Experience’s alley. But with all our scheduled travel for content we were responsible for choosing someone to help spread the growth of our sport in a different country. After many team votes Honolulu ended up sending Cobra Kai to the small country of Ethiopia to help educate them about the ISFL and what it has grown to. Why Ethiopia? – Ethiopia has been known to fast. Maybe this is because of their abundant amount of coffee beans, but Cobra Kai was on a mission to make the sport even faster.

After his hours of training cap on proper form and his skills that he was taught at a young age, Cobra challenged everyone in the city to a ran. “There isn’t anyone that can beat my speed!” The people knew the only way the could take him was doing these races 1v1 to ware the ISFL pro out. But with Cobra’s endurance maxed the city didn’t stand a chance. Race by race Ethiopia came up just short to the Honolulu running back. 
The goal of spreading the word was successful, and also a new hero in many young athletes lives, before this trip they didn’t know about the ISFL and now all them seek to be the fastest in their city and to become an ISFL running back!


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[zaynzk]

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[dude_man]

Ironically, NOLA sent me over to Mexico to spread American football knowledge around to help those that aren’t aware of the rules and mechanics of football. And playing in Tijuana for a couple years, I thought it was perfect since I’d have a brand over there. Obviously, I wasn’t going back specifically to Tijuana, but I went a little more down South like Jalisco, and man, it’s crazy over there. I was able to have a translator at my disposal explaining the rule set of American football. It was a bit harder than I realized since some words don’t actually literally translate straight through. I had to explain to the translator certain things before I realized how big the workload was going to be. After that was set up, I set up little workshops like the 40-yard dash for everyone, and the throwing at a target. It was a lot of fun and I think it was a great turnout. I know that we don’t have much of a market out there, but it would be great to work on that since we are an international league. So more time, effort, and resources would be needed to really build stuff out there more south, like even going down to Panama and South America.

[Tacoshoppe]

Just like everyone else, the Tijuana Luchadors sent my player Rex Crenshaw across the pond to England to help workshop some players to the team for future scouting. With the popularity of the NFL in London, the ISFL thought they could put down roots first pulling in several people to join the league. Obviously, soccer is the most popular sport which means that the main focus that players would have to learn would be catching and that is where Crenshaw excels. When we first reached out, they were surprised that we were not just trying to collect kickers and punters but going for offensive weapons such as wide receivers and running backs. Unfortunately, the workshop didn’t go well as mostly Crenshaw was teased on his size and lack of skills at footwork. He did get to have the last laugh when he was able to make incredible catches while they struggled with routes and general timing of catching passes. Overall, it was a fun experience and I can’t wait to see if we are able to get a few creates from this adventure. Hopefully we are able to convert a few soccer players to positional players instead of the trick shot kickers that we normally get from out of North America recruits.

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[StadiumGambler]

With the ISFL trying to reach out globally via the Berlin expansion, it would only make sense that the ISFL sends out its international stars to various training camps around the world in order to help bring in the next generation of world stars.

For the Sarasota Sailfish, Wide Receiver Saleem Spence was asked to head to his birth country of South Africa, but rejected the request, due to raw feelings about how his father, a respected doctor, was chased out of the country in ludicrous fashion. Instead, the Sailfish went for Running Back Chizuru Ichinose, sending her to Japan to teach the local university teams various American footballing skills.

Along the way, Ichinose got into various romantic comedy subplots with vaguely good-looking college guys and their girlfriends, investigated several extremely minor petty crimes while cosplaying as Sherlock Holmes, and taught a promising young Japanese running back named Sena Kobayakawa a move called the Devil Bat Super Ghost, a complicated cut step that caused Sena to vanish right from defenders sights before they could tackle him.

Overall, Ichinose did a professional job as an ambassador for the game in her native country, and one can expect the next generation of Japanese stars to start coming through the ranks soon.