International

The United States Australian Football League (USAFL) International Program is excited to announce the reappointment of Andrew Donlen as head coach of the US Freedom women’s national team and Kyle Strenski as head coach of the US Revolution men’s national team. Both coaches had successful campaigns in 2024 when the program did a big reset after the COVID disruption led to a lapse in international competition.

Victory and defeat are fickle.  They can be decided by wide gulfs or minute margins.

The USA Freedom will be playing for a championship thanks to the knuckles of Amanda Boe.

It wasn’t a knockout punch, but rather a timely jab of the football over the line in the dying seconds of Team USA’s semifinal match against Canada.  The 14-13 win was the first for the Freedom over the Northern Lights in twelve years, and punched their ticket into the 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup Grand Final.

Being last is sometimes a good thing.  For the USA Freedom, they had the last pool game of the women’s division against Great Britain.  

Coming in, they would know exactly what they would need to accomplish in order to advance to the semi-finals.  And after Colombia’s opening day upset over France, there was the chance that there would be tie-breaker combinations at play.

Momentum is a funny thing.  Sometimes it lasts a few minutes, sometimes a few games.

For the USA Freedom, the boost they got from their fourth quarter against Ireland in their opener carried forward into all four stanzas against Les Gauloises de la France in Game Two.

Seizing control from the opening ball up, the Americans put on a stunning display of offense against a game, but outmatched, French team, scoring a 125-0 victory at the 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup in Toronto.