IFAF: Flag football all-tourney team – Fougere & Noel all-defensive team

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 Polzl
Austria
#8 Carlos Jaime
USA

#8 Lucas Zarak
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 Grimaldo
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.

Women’s Awards:

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.