HONORS MALE AND FEMALE PLAYERS FROM 11 COUNTRIES
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012 – GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN – The International Federation of American Football has announced the All-Tournament Teams selected from the 2012 IFAF Flag Football World Championship. A total of 17 nations competed at the sixth biannual event and 11 countries are represented among the first and second team offensive and defensive selections.
Austria and Mexico won goal at the tournament played in Gothenburg, Sweden last week, as the United States were defeated in both the men’s and women’s finals. Austria held on as time expired in a dramatic men’s Gold Medal game to beat USA 47-40 having taken the lead with only 21 seconds remaining. Mexico’s women celebrated an even closer 33-32 overtime victory over USA, converting an extra point to claim gold after the game had been tied at 26-26 after regulation.
Michael Terzer of Austria was named the men’s tournament MVP, while Sandra Romero from Mexico took the women’s honor.
„The technical standard of the players was excellent and there were many impressive athletes on show,“ said Tournament Director ROOPE NORONEN. „It was a challenge to only be able to select ten offensive and ten defensive players from each competition, such was the quality of play.“
Austria, Panama and the United States led the way among the men’s awards with three players named to the first and second team selections, followed by Canada, Denmark, Israel, Italy and Mexico with two each and Japan with one.
Men’s awards:
| First Team Offense | Country | Second Team Offense | Country | |
| #13 Jorge Cascudo | USA | #9 Phillip Pölzl | Austria | |
| #8 Carlos Jaime | USA | #8 Lucas Zaraka | Panama | |
| #17 Luis Felipe Alarcon | Mexico | #84 Giorgio Poudori | Italy | |
| #21 Michael Svane | Denmark | #20 Doni Eastman | Israel | |
| #83 Michael Terzer | Austria | #4 Victor Celis | Panama | |
| First Team Defense | Country | Second Team Defense | Country | |
| #2 Justin Romano | USA | #9 Yuta Sekiguchi | Japan | |
| #25 Craig Fougere | Canada | #25 Jose Maria | Panama | |
| #11 David Tover | Israel | #83 Lars Skytte | Denmark | |
| #88 Javier Becerril | Mexico | #24 Benjamin Lang | Austria | |
| #24 Enrico Leonardi | Italy | #8 Shanon Noel | Canada |
The women’s selections featured four Mexican players, who were all selected to the first team, four players from the United States, three from Austria, two from Denmark, Germany, Israel and Japan and one from France.
| First Team Offense | Country | Second Team Offense | Country | |
| #33 Sandra Romero | Mexico | #10 Saskia Stribrny | Austria | |
| #21 Sandra Vila | Mexico | #85 Ida Jakobsen | Denmark | |
| #20 Rusty Sowers | USA | #82 Jeannette Beastoch | Germany | |
| #7 Amanda Haeg | USA | #7 Yael Freedman | Israel | |
| #23 Marie Michelitsch | Austria | #24 Daisuke Akatsuka | Japan | |
| First Team Defense | Country | Second Team Defense | Country | |
| #19 Elisa DeSantis Bonneteau | France | #43 Annesofie Thorup Olesen | Denmark | |
| #23 Georgina Legorreta | Mexico | #21 Tadasuke Hosokawa | Japan | |
| #80 Chante Bonds | USA | #56 Lialch Bendavid | Israel | |
| #3 Charlotte Janda | Austria | #8 Sharon Vasquez | USA | |
| #7 Lilia Priego | Mexico | #7 Julia Lutz | Germany |
The event results, schedule and standings can be found at the official website.
