Submitted by Brian Barrish on August 6, 2024 - 9:34pm
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.
Submitted by Brian Barrish on August 5, 2024 - 11:50am
It has been 22 years since the men of Great Britain and the USA Revolution played Aussie Rules football. The Revos won both matches in 2001 and 2002, and won both.
It took two decades for the Bulldogs to flip the script, and they did so with authority. Pinning the Revos back from the opening 30 seconds, Great Britain picked apart the Revos from the second quarter on and despite playing bravely in the back half and getting their chances forward, the Doggies were 47-26 victors at the 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup.
Submitted by Brian Barrish on August 4, 2024 - 5:37pm
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.
Submitted by Brian Barrish on August 3, 2024 - 2:24pm
France was the USA Revolution’s last group stage opponent at the 2017 International Cup.
Needing a percentage boost to sneak into the Grand Final at the MCG, Les Coqs put an immense amount of pressure on the Americans, and despite a 113-point victory, fought well enough to keep the Revos out of the top two.
A similar effort was given by the French men’s team to open the 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup, but seven years on, the Roosters went toe-to-toe with the Americans and gave them a might run for their money.
Submitted by Brian Barrish on August 2, 2024 - 12:01pm
Ireland had two opponents in their 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup opening game against the USA Freedom: the American side, and the humidity.
In the end, they handled both, but it was the side in blue who coped with the thick air at Colonel Sam Smith Park in Toronto. After falling behind by 45 points at three-quarter time, Team USA rallied against a fading Banshees group to close the gap in a 56-32 loss.
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