.. feels her well?

On Saturday the last game with their team. cut. Darmstadt Diamonds are for the next 14 Days packed to the side. From now on football only revolves around the national team. The whole thinking is geared to Stockholm.

The tension is palpable scho detulich. It becomes more difficult, to focus on everyday things.

Once the equipment. We also suffer from the Staff under the 20kg rule: Laptop, Stands, hard drives, Photo apparatus, Camera, Charger. The technology list is long. be everything must be checked. install updates, control software. Fortunately, I have Thursday free, make the last adjustments. I can all the documents, transfer messages and information on the laptop. I have all the information, Login information and technology, to cultivate the homepages, PR to write messages and send? Ja, the list should be complete. The list of addresses of journalists? Ja, is already there. But do not take too much paper, Security is difficult!!!

Oops. What's this? Okay tonight I have a meeting for the European Championship 2010 in Frankfurt. This is only just 30 days out. switch briefly as again. But starting tomorrow, we go only to the WWC 2010.

Weekend in Rothenburg ob der Tauber we had the opportunity, time to stroll through the old town before briefly. Here there is not only during the World Cup a huge number of fan items in black, red and gold. Incredible. Many things on the edge of bad taste, but some also looked really good. But to buy I could but then not bring. Zum Glück, because the 20kg rule must not be ignored.

Now is the last talk time. Perhaps we can even convince someone to come or Pressekeonferenz about the WWC 2010 to write. I can not hear it anymore: “We just have World Cup”, “At present it is not so good”. I press Germany fingers crossed. I really wish the team, that they beat Ghana tomorrow. At least at that I wish to 99%. The other percentage dreams of, that on Thursday's fifteen editors with me, sign up for the PK and information from the WWC 2010 to ask, because they do not know, how to fill the front pages on Friday.

It could go slowly…

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About Jana Gaitzsch the Südwestpresse from Ulm report under

http://www.swp.de/crailsheim/sport/sonstige/regional/art1159551,526471

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This is the current weather in Stockholm. Doesn't sound bad at all, oder?

You can now follow how it is developing in the left bar here in the blog. Have fun.

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Football USA is the first report from the training camp of US women. Since Sunday coached Team USA in Austin, Texas. The first findings: In the battle between offense and defense, the defense is so far forward, the losing Offense needs in the next training, the red vests wear and on Thursday it comes to Europe.

The German national team is only on Friday to camp. By the shorter arrival and subsequent entry into the tournament we can 5 Start days later and have won only one day less time in Camp.

http://www.usafootball.com/articles/displayArticle/7481/9624

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SWEDEN WELCOMES FIRST INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Six teams from around the world prepare to compete at the Zinkensdamms IP Stadium when history will be made on the gridiron from June 26 to July 4, 2010

TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2010 – PARIS, FRANCE – The world’s best female American Football players will converge on Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden this week, from June 26 to July 4 for the inaugural International Federation of American Football (Ifafa) Women’s World Championship.

American football’s female athletes representing the United States, Canada, Germany, Austria, Finland and Sweden will compete at the Zinkensdamms IP Stadium in Stockholm in the following groups:

Group A
USA
Austria
Finland

Group B
Canada
Germany
Sweden

The 2010 IFAF Women’s World Championship will kick off on Sunday, June 27 when number one seed USA takes on Austria and host Sweden faces number two seed Canada. Austria will be in action again on Tuesday, June 29 against Finland, along with Sweden against Germany.

Games featuring Canada versus Germany and USA against Finland on Thursday, July 1 will complete the group play. The top teams in each group will meet in the IFAF Women’s World Championship Gold Medal Game on Saturday, July 3 following the Bronze Medal and fifth placed games.

Each of the six teams will face group opponents for the first time in history in women’s American football, but international competition within the women’s game is not without precedent since two previous games have been played in Scandinavia. Finland hosted Sweden in 2008, winning 64-0 in Helsinki and again in 2009 when the Swedes played host to their neighbors as Finland triumphed again, this time by a score of 36-6.

“Women’s tackle football is growing steadily in popularity and now IFAF is delighted to kick off this historic first ever international tournament in the history of our sport,” said IFAF President TOMMY WIKING, who is also the President of the hosting Swedish American Football Federation (Svenska Amerikansk Fotbollsförbundet).

“It will be interesting to discover the rate of development of the women’s game when these six countries take the field. Other sports have grown and flourished as a result of their members entering competition and over time the margin of competitiveness has narrowed. IFAF sees this tournament as a starting point for the women’s game to prosper internationally and it is also an important component in our quest to see American football recognized as an Olympic sport.”

The first-ever IFAF Women’s Conference will be held in conjunction with the IFAF Women’s World Championship on Friday, July 2 from 10:00 to 17:00 at the Zinkensdamms IP in Stockholm, Sweden.

With the goal of increasing female participation in the sport and raising the profile of the women’s game, the conference will provide a platform for knowledge sharing among countries with established women’s programs and those interested in learning more about developing women’s football.

For any questions regarding the conference contact IFAF Development Manager Jack Reed: jreed@usafootball.com.

2010 IFAF Women’s World Championship schedule

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Teams arrive

Sunday, June 27, 2010

USA vs. Austria

Sweden vs. Canada

Monday, June 28

Rest day / Teams inactive on previous day have option to arrive

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Finland vs. Austria

Germany vs. Sweden

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Canada vs. Germany

USA vs. Finland

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Fifth Place game

Bronze Medal game

Gold Medal game

Team information:

USA Football’s Women’s National Team will represent the United States in Stockholm. USA Football’s team was assembled in partnership with the Independent Women’s Football League (IWFL), which consists of more than 1,800 female athletes across 51 teams. This roster will represent the United States’ first women’s national team in America’s favorite sport. According to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, more than 120,000 American females played tackle football at least 26 times in 2008.

Team USA is led by John Konecki, an accomplished coaching veteran within the IWFL and high school football. The head coach of IWFL’s Chicago Force, Konecki was named the league’s 2009 Western Conference All-Star Team coaching staff. He also serves as the offensive coordinator of Cret-Monee High School in Crete, Illinois – 35 miles south of Chicago.

Team USA is holding a training camp from Saturday, June 19 to Wednesday, June 23 and will depart for Sweden on June 24.

Selection for the Canada National Team is complete as the final 45 players have been established. 90 players participated in one of two regional camps during March in Saskatoon, SK, and Oromocto, NB. The selected players then attended the final camp in Saint John, NB, before heading to Sweden at the end of June. The team is made up of players from nine teams with 13 players from Saint John and nine from Winnipeg. The other teams represented are Fredericton, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Moncton, Saskatoon, and Halifax.

Head Coach Larry Harlow, who was one of the founders of the New Brunswick Women’s Football League, the New Brunswick Jr. Girls Football League and the Maritime Women’s Football League, will lead the Canadian challenge. He is currently the Head Coach of the Saint John Storm, a team he has transformed from last place into undefeated Maritime Champions.

Germany has selected a 45 person squad that includes 35 players from their Division I teams and 10 players from Division II. Players represent 13 different teams with the most from the Munich Cowboys and German Ladies Bowl finalists Berlin Kobras with seven players apiece. The Dresden Diamonds have also contributed five players, while the Hamburg Amazons, Mainz Lady Warriors and Muelheim provided four. More than 120 players attended tryouts in Cologne and 75 women were selected to attend a follow-up camp in early 2010 where the final 45 player roster was selected. The women’s league began in 1990 and the first official German Championship game – the Ladies Bowl – was played in 1992. Since 2008 the German women’s league has featured two divisions and for the 2010 season has 20 teams and approximately 750 players.

Women’s American Football has been played in Austria since 1997 and the Austrian Football Division Ladies features four teams from two countries: the Black Widows from Graz, Budapest Wolves Ladies from Hungary, Raiffeisen Vikings Ladies from Vienna and Rangers Roughnecks from Südstadt. The Austrian Ladies Bowl was first played in 2000 when the Black Widows won the first of three consecutive titles and since then the Vikings Ladies have won the past seven championship games. Cameron Frickey, a native of the United States and former wide receiver for the Vienna Vikings, will coach Austria.

Women’s football has a long tradition in Finland. Women started to play 9-on-9 flag football in the late 1980s, but rules evolved towards allowing contact, which eventually led to a move to tackle football. Finland head coach Teemu Kuusisto has a long history of coaching Finland’s national teams and top club teams. The GS Demons and Roosters, both from Helsinki, provide most of the starters for the national team and have dominated Ladies football in recent history, contesting the last seven national finals. Finland has six teams competing in their own domestic league.

Women’s football in Sweden is in its infancy with three club teams – Stockholm Mean Machines, Arlanda Jets and Limhamn Griffins -operating since the formation of a national team in 2008. The national team has twice faced neighbor Finland in friendly competition, improving in 2009 with a 36-6 loss following on from a 64-point shutout defeat a year earlier. Sweden’s female players have played flag football and also integrated with country’s men’s teams for the past decade.

For further information regarding the participating national federations, please contact:

USA: Steve Alic salic@USAFootball.com
USA Football: www.USAFootball.com

Canada: Paul Stoddard communications@FootballCanada.com
Shannon Donovan operations@footballcanada.com
Football Canada: www.FootballCanada.com

Germany: Christiane Langkamm c.langkamm@afvd.de
Andreas Gebek a.gebek@afvd.de
American Football Verband Deutschland: www.AFVD.de

Austria: Daniel Fettner daniel.fettner@afboe.at
Fouad Lilabadi foud.lilabadi@afboe.at
American Football Bund Österreich (AFBÖ): www.afboe.at

Finland: Tomi Tiilikainen tomi.tiilikainen@sajl.org
Petra Eloranta petra.eloranta@assure.fi
Suomen Amerikkalaisen Jalkapallon Liitto: www.sajl.org

Sweden Mikael Roos mikael.roos@amerikanskfotboll.com
Joan Travesset joan.travesset@amerikanskfotboll.com
Svenska Amerikansk Fotbollförbundet: www.amerikanskfotboll.com

IFAF In Stockholm: Lauren Hickey Lauren@MPrestonSports.com
Michael Preston Michael.Preston@IFAF.org
Websites International Federation of American Football www.IFAF.org

IFAF Women’s World Championship www.2010WWC.info

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World Cup in Sweden, Final exam and far too little time!

Today is already Monday and in just four days we are off to the training camp in Strausberg. Where in the world only time remains? It was just months before the American Football World Cup in Sweden, then many long weeks and now time is just running away!!

Tomorrow is my very last one, absolute final exam before. Tomorrow afternoon at three I have everything behind me and will finally turn to the "important" things: pack the bag for Sweden.

What do you take with you to a World Cup as a participant? And why only 20 Kg??? I may not be a "girl" girl, which would carry three cupboard-high suitcases on vacation, But like all my teammates, I have to put my equipment in my luggage in addition to doing the laundry for ten days. What casual clothes do I pack? I save weight, if I limit myself to shorts? I pack shower gel and shampoo at all? Hotels actually always furnish the rooms with it. Maybe I'm just taking curd soap with me, as my teammate Sarah suggested, I couldn't just do laundry with it, take care of me and my hair, but also use the soap in connection with a sock with a potential snorer in the room as a "remote control for the in-room volume control". Who needs to save space and weight, just becomes inventive. With a smile, I also wonder, how long you can wear a pair of socks, before it smells unpleasant…

My three team members have already started a circular email among us fours on Facebook: I pack my suitcase and take it with me… A good idea, because I wouldn't have thought of it, z.B. still anti mosquito spray, to pack the emergency number of the international health insurance or a dirty laundry bag. I also took the vaccination card, I should have had pre-treated for tick bites? nonsense, our hotel is located in the archipelago of Stockholm, but we don't come from the city anyway.

So it's getting serious. I have to try out, so that I stay under the 20kg limit. Will my big sports bag be enough or will I stuff everything into my world travel backpack? How many T-shirts are needed, how many times will i be able to wash? Is it rather fresh or warm?? I try on my swimming gear again in advance, whether they still fit? Fragen über Fragen. I will also have to clean up my MP3 player and repack it. I'm going to pump up music, to "come down" and fall asleep, only what and how much?

I have three days left, to put together and pack all things and I already know, that I will still forget something, which I have to buy expensive in Stockholm. According to the schedule, there won't be much time for shopping and the next shops are one 10 minute bus ride from the hotel. So I hope so, that the 45 Girls skillfully complement each other, otherwise we will probably be bartering with the other two teams (Kanada und Finnland) have to commit, which are also housed in our hotel.

I doubt it, that the players of the German national soccer team deal with the 20 Kg-limit at all. If the boys forget some shoes, then surely some assistant whizzes away, who worries the forgotten and the desired.

I should also request such an assistant from our team management…

Online also at http://www.lokalkompass.de/wesel/sport/weltmeisterschaft-in-schweden-abschlusspruefung-und-viel-zu-wenig-zeit-d2998.html

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If you look at the women's team included Staff accurate, one will notice, that it is composed of many yet very different individuals. Since the question was deputy to: How these individuals are to act as a team in Stockholm? After all it is one of the points, the successful German teams always constituted. team spirit. And if you closely you can still accurate, one finds at once but many similarities between the players and staff. Some of these are obvious: All are for the first time this. Everyone wants a medal. Externally, the most bronze and my say but actually gold. But then there are similarities, that are not obvious at first glance. What shall Bathsheba Buczylowski, Quarterback, 23 already have years of Cologne and Equipment Manager Sonja Schmidt from Berlin together? It is the love of a continent: South.

Bathsheba "Batze" Buczylowski studied African Studies and English. Even if she says: "Those were the first two compartments on the alphabetical list of subjects" , yet more to it. After high school and a year abroad in England Batze took a long time, to think about, what they are really interested in life. And these are clearly the languages. "I love languages. I think Linguistics for one of the most important sciences in general. Through language we are only become human beings and if we see ourselves all, would prevent much suffering in the world ". Four years ago, during the World Cup Batista was the first time in Africa. In South Africa, she worked as a volunteer in the inventory of wildlife in a nature reserve. "So we are three or four teams in 10 – 30 walked kilometers a day on fixed routes through the bush and animals have counted. What I experienced there – so much. Hyenas make the scariest noise I've ever heard. at night they came to our camp and that sound like a cross between a baby's cry and Wolfsheulen very scary. On the way to the toilets I met a face to face. She has become so frightened fortunately like me and ran away. When I reached the saving toilet block was just someone already there before me – a snake, and even a poisonous. Fortunately, they did not bite me but the snake specialist the next day. Which then had and a very painful day one arm so badly swollen like an elephant's leg. South Africa is blessed with a gorgeous nature and wildlife. "
About her future plans, she tells: "So before much and so little time. I would like to Tanzania for a few months. I learn Swahili since 2-3 Years and on the coast of Tanzania Kiunguja spoken – the Hochswahili. At the moment, I understand only one Swahilisprecher, speaks slowly and clearly. Swahili is the most beautiful language, I've heard. I'm currently working as a student assistant at the Department of Applied Linguistics and help in caring for scientific projects in the field of literacy, bilingual education and in Lehrstuhlorganisiation. I want to do good. "

If Batista comes into storytelling, you will understand her better self-assessment: "Actually, I can only two things right: tell stories and play quarterback. "So if you want to hear exciting stories from a distant continent, should at Camp talk times longer with Batze.

Sonja Schmidt will do so determined, can they do themselves tell exciting stories from Africa. she has 2006 Tanzania Kilimanjaro, with 5895m the highest mountain in Africa, defeated. For Sonja a long-cherished dream, of came true. Three days earlier, she had the Mount Meru 4.562 m climbed. While for many the ideal holiday for two weeks all inclusive is, Sonja spends her free time in the desert of Libya. Without running water, Asleep she finds without bed and under the open sky here relaxation from everyday office. "If you cross the desert, you find yourself. You can learn very quickly, which enjoys a life of luxury is here in Germany but. Such trips change a person enormous and can see a lot of things differently. "

And just as Africa unites two members of our team, so there are many points of contact between the numerous players. Some are mothers, some study the same subject area, many have gained experience in other teams, are active as arbitrators or have the same taste in music. And since there is a point, they all united.

American football for women.

Because it all will agree and Sonja Schmidt, who played himself for thirteen years, agree: "The national team is for me and especially for women's football is an important step in the right direction, to the women's football to support ... and making it even more popular, and finally to refute the false prejudices "Women and Football". "

In this sense

One Team – One Goal – be ONE

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WR Jeanette Beastoch war von Anfang an eine sichere Kandidatin für die Frauenfootballnationalmannschaft. Während des Camps in Silberborn hat sie sich allerdings schwer an der Schulter verletzt. Mit viel Fleiß und Beharrlichkeit hat Sie sich innerhalb von drei Monaten wieder in das Team zurück gekämpft und steht wenige Tage vor dem letzten Camp in Strausberg und vor dem ersten Kick Off in Schweden vor ihrem Comeback. Für uns stand Jeanette Beastoch Rede und Antwort.

football-aktuell.de:

Hallo Jeanette, Es wäre nett, wenn Du zuerst etwas über Dich erzählen würdest.

Jeanette Beastoch:

Ich bin 28 Jahre alt und wohne in Tübingen. Ich habe in Passau Jura studiert, in Nürnberg mein Referendariat absolviert und arbeite nun als Juristin im Justizvollzug des Landes Baden-Württemberg. Seit 2006 spiele ich bei den Nürnberg Hurricanes. Zwischen Tübingen und Nürnberg liegen zwar mehr als 200 km, aber mein Team ist mir während meiner Zeit in Nürnberg so sehr ans Herz gewachsen, dass mich auch der Umzug aus beruflichen Gründen nicht den Helm wechseln ließ.

football-aktuell.de:

In Nürnberg bist Du eine langjährige Leistungsträgerin und immer für einen Touchdownfang gut. Wie bist Du eigentlich zum Footballl gekommen?

Jeanette Beastoch:

Während des Studiums spielte ich bereits Flagfootball bei den Passau Red Wolves, der Unimannschaft. Ich habe dort überwiegend mit Männern zusammengespielt und viel von ihnen lernen können, insbesondere was die Technik und die Durchsetzungsfähigkeit betrifft. Schon damals hatte ich Lust, auch mal “richtigen Football” auszuprobieren. Die Gelegenheit dazu ergab sich dann, als ich zum Referendariat nach Nürnberg umzog. Seitdem ist Football aus meinem Leben nicht mehr wegzudenken.

football-aktuell.de:

Die Gesundheit geht immer vor. Wie geht es Deiner Schulter und bist Du wirklich fit und wieder wohlauf?

Jeanette Beastoch:

Bei der Schulter hatte ich Glück im Unglück. Wir waren auf Empfehlung unseres Teamarztes Marco Ezechieli in einer Heidelberger Spezialklinik für Schulterchirurgie. Der Arzt dort teilte uns mit, dass die Regeneration einer Schultereckgelenksprengung drei Monate bedarf und operierte mich gleich am nächsten Tag – ein Glücksfall. Die Teilnahme an der WM ist also eine Punktlandung, denn zwischen dem Trainingscamp in Silberborn, in dem ich mich verletzte, und der WM liegen genau drei Monate. Nachdem ich nach der Operation vier Wochen lang meinen Arm gar nicht bewegen durfte, war von dem intensiven Kraft- und Footballtraining, dass ich seit Januar betrieben hatte, natürlich nichts mehr zu spüren. Die Reha jedoch verläuft bisher prima. Vor sechs Wochen habe ich mit dem Training wieder begonnen und es seitdem stetig gesteigert. Laufen, sprinten, fangen, blocken funktioniert alles wieder. Lediglich Krafttraining und tackeln, bzw. getackelt werden hat der Arzt erst ab Ende Juni wieder erlaubt. Punktlandung eben.

football-aktuell.de:

Wie hast Du Dich nach der Verletzung wieder in das Team hineingekämpft? Von Coach Robert Melzer hören wir ja nur lobende Worte über Dein Engagement!

Jeanette Beastoch:

Wir haben die Coaches über den aktuellen Behandlungsstand meiner Schulter ständig auf dem Laufenden gehalten. Nachdem noch vor der offiziellen Nominierung der Spielerinnen berechtigte Hoffnung bestand, dass ich rechtzeitig wieder fit werde, war ich von Anfang an nominiert. Bei einem Training Ende Mai in Berlin mit Coach Trabi konnte er sich dann selbst ein Bild von meinem Genesungsstand machen. Das Lob für Engagement muss ich hiermit an unseren Coach zurückgeben. Die Trainingseinheit in Berlin hat mich einen großen Schritt weitergebracht und das Vertrauen in eine rechtzeitige Heilung gestärkt.

football-aktuell.de:

Dein Freund ist Mitglied der Flagfootballnationalmannschaft und Footballcoach. Wer redet bei Euch zu Hause momentan mehr über seine ganz persönliche WM?

Jeanette Beastoch:

Naja, wir gehen, was die Vorfreude und das Hauptgesprächsthema betrifft, ganz chronologisch vor. Im Moment reden wir nur über Schweden. Mein Freund, wird auch live mit dabei sein. Und genauso werde ich live bei der Flag-WM in Kanada dabei sein, denn ich spiele auch in der Frauen-Flagfootballnationalmannschaft. Da die Flag-WM für Männer und Frauen zeitgleich stattfindet, wird es also unsere gemeinsame WM. Doch bevor es Mitte August nach Ottawa geht, hoffen wir mitzuerleben, wie unsere Herren im eigenen Land Europameister werden.

football-aktuell.de:

Hattest Du schon Möglichkeiten, Dich über die Passabwehr Schwedens und Kanadas zu informieren?

Jeanette Beastoch:

Ich habe über youtube.com nur Spiele der IWFL gesehen. Von den anderen Teams weiß ich bisher nichts. Gegen die Schwedinnen habe ich bereits letztes Jahr bei der Flag-EM gespielt und eines Wissens nach waren das alles auch Spielerinnen der Tacklenationalmannschaft. Im Flagfootball haben wir sie geschlagen, was aber wohl wenig über das bevorstehende Tacklespiel aussagt.

football-aktuell.de:

Was glaubst Du, ist für Euch in Stockholm möglich?

Jeanette Beastoch: Der dritte Platz sollte möglich sein.

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..ended on the national team

How could this happen actually, I started with a hobby and am going to smash soon as a member of the national team, the German national anthem in the stadium Zinkensdamm?

Many years ago, it must so 1995 have been, I slipped gradually, Thanks to the football loving family of my then boyfriend, Piece by piece in the lifestyle of American Football. The games were at night from the few friends, that could receive the games, videotaped and freshly duplicated among friends distributed.

Really grabbed me but only the enthusiasm for the sport at the XXXII. Greenbay Packers Superbowl against the Denver Broncos. The game was the most exciting, which I had ever seen and the quarterback of the Denver Broncos, Jon Elway, played with so much heart and soul, I had never experienced it in another sport. I wanted to try this sport! woman only how and where testing a male-dominated sport testosterone?

As if my question been answered, I found I 1999 a display on the local calendar of events. The Mülheim Shamrocks searched for their women's team gain and invited on trial. I liked very much, that girls and women of any figure and all ages were sought. Since I was always "mopsigen" more of the sort, came to me naturally opposed. I grabbed my roommate and dragged her to the winter training.

The coach drove us in the weeks around and around the winter sports field and on Sunday at the Circle in the sports hall. In the sports hall we got in theory lessons the basics of American football and later the moves taught and required in small groups technical principles and movements.

The team was (and it is to this day) a Sammelsorium of characters, the inspired me from the beginning. I had already been in the swimming club before and was for many years in the Riding Club Show Jumping, but so well I had felt in any sports group.

Then the first external training came up to me in full equipment. I was informed about, that really Football was played, and in my first training I was pushed over the place, getackled and blocked. I felt after exercise muscles that I had not even previously suspected, I had this at all! But never before had I felt so comfortable after a sports unit.

The first game was followed and I felt no planning on the field (I was also likely). Cried the coach really just my name on the field? followed game to game and the theory lessons gradually added together with the practice into a whole. In addition to the sport itself, I had a new one in my team, solid circle of friends found. followed year on year; for me, my team has developed into a kind of family. We are living together successes and failures; we celebrate together the same way, as it sometimes crashes in the rafters. So it should be even and so that's a bunch of women.

Meanwhile we played against teams in Germany, the Bundesliga was founded, they even shared in 1. und 2. Bundesliga. And then, 2009, after several years in 1. Bundesliga Women, burst in football Germany the bomb. There should be a female national team, which will compete in Sweden at the World Championships in.

The coaches of the teams should send the favorites of your team to try-out, for the first selection process. Unfortunately I was not there. My coach had considered my job-related training low participation to the law and not proposed me. Kinked I took the back.

I was happy of course for the nominee of my team, but still nibbling at my scratched Ego. A coach of a friendly team suggested me afterwards and put in a good word for me (thanks again, Tom!), so I was finally still invited to try-out to Cologne. I ran, sprang, and played my soul from my untrained body. I struggled on the final gum. If I do not do it now would be included in the National team squad, when then?

A few weeks and abgenkabberte fingernails later extended squad was clear, who was invited in Silberborn for the first training camp and I was there! over 100 Girls and women met for a long weekend, to show the coaches of the national team, that they are in the squad 45 chosen among. Three days in rain and mud full of emotions and hopes, Cold and fatigue paid off. The final A-team was clear and I had managed. Three of my Shamrock teammates and I are now on the safe way to Sweden for the World Cup in Stockholm. Day after day spin emails with instructions and schedules in my mailbox day after day can I believe it less, that we travel in a few days already in the preparation camp near Berlin, to from 27. participate in June at the Women's World Championship. Am 29. June we will meet our first opponent, the national team of our hosts Sweden.

I am with my national team go into our summer fairytale.

Who would have before the 11 years thought?

complement:

Bettina also writes for the local newspaper. The article appeared here:

http://www.lokalkompass.de/wesel/sport/wie-meine-suche-nach-ein-wenig-bewegung-im-kader-der-nationalmannschaft-endete-d2837.html

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Vor der ersten Frauen WM im American Football

Aller Anfang ist schwer: Zwischen dem ersten Einzeller und dem aufrechten Gang eines Homo Sapiens sind ein paar Milliarden Jahre vergangen. Zwischen dem Bau der ersten Dampfeisenbahn in England und dem ersten TGV in Frankreich liegen immerhin noch 150 Jahre. Die ersten Olympischen Spiele der Neuzeit wurden fast im Verborgenen in Griechenland abgehalten und auch an die Qualität der ersten Fußball WM in Uruguay 1930 mag sich heute kaum noch jemand erinnern. Und nicht zuletzt startete Bill Gates sein Imperium in einer Garage. Alles, was heute prachtvoll unseren Lebensrythmus bestimmt, benötigt Zeit und Entwicklung. Ob im Wirtschaftsleben, in der Natur, in der Politik oder im Sport will alles erst zusammenwachsen, was zusammengehört. Im Frauenfootball wird es nicht anders sein und so grenzt es schon an ein kleines Wunder, dass trotz einer Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise im Juni und Juli 2010 in der schwedischen Hauptstadt Stockholm sechs Nationalteams aufeinander treffen, die es vor wenigen Monaten noch nicht gegeben hat und ihren ersten „World Champion“ ausspielen wollen.

Es liegt schließlich in der Natur der Sache, dass erst durch Ausleseprozesse eine Rangordnung entsteht und der Sport dadurch seine Berechtigung erhält, weil der Mensch, egal ob Moslem, Christ oder Hindu, egal ob Amerikaner, Europäer oder Asiate, den ewigen Wettbewerb zwischen seines Gleichen irgendwann während seiner Evolutionsgeschichte zu einer seiner Lieblingsbeschäftigungen erkoren hat. Also ist es nur Recht und billig, dass eine Lücke in der Sportwelt mit der Austragung dieser Spiele geschlossen werden muss und auch aus der Sicht der Gleichstellung zwischen Mann und Frau ein neues Kapitel aufgeschlagen werden darf.

Dabei ist die Frage nach dem Favoriten diesmal noch nicht so entscheidend wichtig und scheinbar auch schon beantwortet. Die Fachwelt rechnet natürlich mit den USA, die traditionell immer dann groß auftrumpfen, wenn es um internationales großes sportliches Prestige geht und sie natürlich mit ihrer IWFL, der halbprofessionellen landesweit organisierten Frauenfootballliga über die scheinbar beste Struktur verfügen. 51 Teams mit 1800 Sportlerinnen kann niemand einfach so ignorieren. Natürlich sollte auch nicht vergessen werden, dass die USA immer dann besonders aktiv werden, wenn es in ihrem Lieblingssport etwas zu holen gibt. Dann müssen natürlich alle Hebel in Gang gesetzt werden, um auch diesmal die virtuelle und suggerierte Vormachtsstellung im Frauenfootball erstmals durch einen Vergleich zwischen den führenden Nationen eindrucksvoll zu beweisen. Ob die neue deutsche Frauen-Nationalmannschaft schon die Kraft und den Zusammenhalt besitzt, als potentieller Finalgegnerkandidat neben dem ebenfalls als stark einzuschätzenden Kanada anzutreten, bleibt abzuwarten, gehört aber zu den spannenden in Stockholm zu klärenden Fragen.

„Ein Länderspiel Finnland gegen Schweden hat Schweden eine kleine Frauenliga beschert. Wie groß muss der Multiplikatoreffekt erst bei einer WM im eigenen Lande sein?“, fragt sich auch mittlerweile der zuständige deutsche Mannschaftssprecher Andreas Gebek, der die letzten Monate des frisch gebildeten Teams miterleben durfte und auch das Zitat prägte „Das Schwierige an einer Auswahl ist das Auswählen.“ Andreas Gebek liefert aber auch eine Antwort, warum es langsam Zeit wird, eine Frauen Football Weltmeisterschaft endlich zu veranstalten: „Vielleicht sind die Auswirkungen bei uns nicht so stark zu spüren – in der skandinavischen Welt dafür umso mehr und sorgen für nachhaltige Effekte.“

Aus der skandinavischen Brille gesehen, erscheint es so, als wenn Finnland den größten Entwicklungsstand besitzt. Bereits in den späten 80er Jahren begannen Finnlands Frauen Flag Football zu entdecken. It was followed around the turn of the century Tackle Football. Today coach Teemu Kuusisto can say, that play in his country nine women football team in a tackle league and leaves the majority of the Finnish team recruited by the Helsinki Roosters and GS Demons Helsinki. Finland is thus composed in part of teams on a clear block formation and hopes, that the athletes can always quickly form a team, because they already know each other well from the club life.

From a sporting perspective, such an event is long overdue. Asked about the sporting expected level give the better-known experts under the sun but only partially clear statements of themselves: "It is difficult to assess. The fastest woman in the world is still slow, as the fastest man in the world. So you can not say, whether the women World Cup takes place in whole at a level, which leaves you with a nationwide German master Regional or compare GFL2. simply we do not know one hundred percent, if much is improvised in international women's football and achieved by chance a pass to a receiver, or whether getting behind a touchdown success really a plan hand can be seen ", noticed wide receiver coach Robert Melzer thoughtful, complements but also aptly: "That's why the first women's World Cup also so important for an initial assessment. If we do not start now, then we would back away years in development and can not take the chance, perform a new quantum leap. "

Should not forget the Guard's first wife Foot Baller Interior, in the fall of her sports career spare no expense or effort after years of building, want at least once to experience their national anthem at an international match in their sport and to naturally then also in the front row.

Last but not least it is the first woman football World Cup also to the large and still distant goal, that American football is to be included in the Olympic family once. In addition to the necessary change it is the IOC whatsoever to the proof of sustainable global structures, which of course was also created in recent years by the IFAF and their confederations, and of course attractive competitions at the international level. Here was the sport of American football, after even the Flagfootball international Nationals, exactly was missing the last diamond in the jewelry chain. Only through the ensuing woman Football World Cup Football is absolutely correct.

Exciting is also the question designed, what now the teams and their fans in Scandinavia from an organizational point of view get offer. Of course Stockholm, with its proximity to the water, its cosmopolitan Scandinavian character and temperate climate a great city. The stadium Zinkensdamm IP (IP =IDrott Plats = sports field) is for the football sports not unknown and is an attractive choice. The Stockholm Mean Machines found here years ago their sporting home and 2006 the European Junior Championships was held at the same place, has so that the Swedish umbrella organization SAFF some experience and expertise in the organization of such "events" offer. The stadium has a widespread in Scandinavia artificial turf with short straws, which was filled with granulate, Football solid marks, round 5900 Spectator seats and a covered grandstand. The center of the city is from the perspective of the stadium in the neighborhood, is easy to reach by bus and subway and invites the friends of the Swedish summer with its long days and short neighbor to many attractions.

have the Swedish and the Finnish host tournament committee, it seems so, the organization full control. In meticulous detail all the details were in early May the responsible sports directors and officials of the participating nations presented during a technical meeting in Zinkensdamm Stadium and all quarters inspected. Actually, the tournament can now be disturbed only by a recent Icelandic volcano eruption, which could hinder the arrival of the Football Friends from overseas, but of course no one wants to summon. May help the first woman Football World Cup to, to inspire the rest of the world, also stand up for the interests of the Lady Footballs.

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