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Direct from Neil Reynolds at NFL Europe. THE NFL Europe League has assigned national players to teams ready for the official opening of training camp in Tampa Bay, Florida. A total of 58 players were placed on the training camp rosters of the six NFLEL teams after 78 players from 13 countries took part in a four-day mini-camp.

Back for another season – for a new team, the Hamburg Sea Devils – is Englishman SCOTT McCREADY. Last season he became the first national player to lead the NFLEL in a major individual category when he caught 59 passes for the Scottish Claymores. Back with the Berlin Thunder is defensive end CHRISTIAN MOHR, who spent the NFL season on the practice squad of the Seattle Seahawks and has been allocated by that team for the 2005 season.

NFL Europe Director of International Player Development TONY ALLEN said that the decision process was harder than it has ever been. “These kids are good enough that you could have made a case for giving each of them a spot on a roster. This is the worst time of the year for me. I believe that every player we cut will be invited back again and will remain as part of the program.”

Each team will head for Europe for the 2005 season with eight nationals on its roster. Players from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom – including 35 rookies – will be competing during training camp to earn those places.

Allen continued: “I think we are going to be real excited to see how this group pans out. There are a lot of opportunities for a lot of new kids this year. Even the returning players are mostly only second or third year guys. We’ve never had a harder working group of players and the coaches have done a great job.”

One of the rookies is Allen’s own son, MARVIN ALLEN, who will be with the Frankfurt Galaxy. “I am excited about my son making a team,” said Allen. “It is going to be fun watching him, but tough not to root for the team he plays for!”

The class of 2005 also includes two Russian players, Berlin safety SERGEY IVANOV and Frankfurt receiver MAXIM TREGUBOV. The eight Japanese players to make the cut include former sumo wrestler MASAKAZU GODA, a center who will play for the Cologne Centurions. Former England rugby union Under-20 international NEIL BAXTER is set to compete at running back for Berlin.

Japanese quarterback KENTARO NAMIKI, who last year became the first national quarterback in league history to complete passes, returns to Cologne. He is joined by tight end WERNER HIPPLER, a nine-year NFLEL veteran and a three-time All-NFLEL selection.

The Rhein Fire welcome back safety RICHARD YANCY and guard PETER HEYER, who spent the 2004 NFL season on the practice squads of the San Francisco 49ers and St Louis Rams respectively.

AMSTERDAM ADMIRALS CB Amilcar Grot (Netherlands); DT Mauricio Lopez (Mexico); LB Carl Johan Björk (Sweden); LB Shurendy Concetion (Netherlands); LB Rikiya Ishida (Japan); DT Cesar Loredo (Mexico); RB Sandino Octobre (France); TE Yoan Schnee (France); WR Noriaki Kinoshita (Japan); WR Cristian Malm (Sweden).

BERLIN THUNDER S Oliver Flemming (Germany); S Sergey Ivanov (Russia); DE Christian Mohr (Germany); DE Daniel Watts (UK); C Masakazu Goda (Japan); RB Neil Baxter (UK); TE Klaus Alinen (Finland); TE Iiro Luoto (Finland); WR Hugo Lira (Mexico); WR Gustavo Tella (Mexico).

COLOGNE CENTURIONS CB Leonard Greene (Germany); S Magnus Lundqvist (Sweden); S Kohei Satomi (Japan); LB Philippe Gardent (France); QB Kentaro Namiki (Japan); RB Loliki Bongo-Wanga (Belgium); TE Werner Hippler (Cologne); WR Yu Nakajima (Japan); WR Michihiro Ogawa (Japan); WR Satoshi Shimizu (Japan) 

FRANKFURT GALAXY CB Jeff Brown (UK); DE Benjamin Lindner (Germany); DT Daniel Benetka (Germany); LB Cuneyt Topcu (Turkey); C David Krzysztalowicz (Sweden); T Samuel Gutekunst (Germany); RB Martin Latka (Germany); WR Marvin Allen (UK); WR Maxim Tregubov (Russia).

HAMBURG SEA DEVILS S Patrik Lundqvist (Sweden); DE Philip Stursberg (Germany); DT Bastian Lano (Germany); LB Aden Durde (UK); LB Nick Prevost (France); T Julian Pjanic (Germany); G Alexander Haritonenko (Germany); RB Patrick Wischnewski (Germany); WR Scott McCready (England).

RHEIN FIRE S Onoh Ozongwu (UK); S Richard Yancy (Germany); DE Ulrich Winkler (Germany); LB Shaun Smith (UK); LB Richard Adjei (Germany); G Peter Heyer (Germany); RB Joakim Holm (Sweden); RB Laurent Marceline (France); WR Willy Bongo (Belgium); WR Christopher Liess (Germany).  

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NFL Europe (NFL 'AAA') 2005 Season Preview

OK - see if you can follow the historical perspective I am putting forth without getting lost; This League started in March of '91 as 'The World League of American Football (underline 'WORLD' League). It had teams in Montreal (Les Machine), Canada [remember CFL fans, no Alouettes then since '87], Three in Europe; London, Barcelona and Frankfurt and six in the U.S. In Sept. '92, after changing the name to 'World League of Football [no longer 'AMERICAN'], the Board of NFL Governors (read NFL Owners!) voted to can this experiment, for at least a couple years, and bring it back in the future, as an all-European 'AAA' developmental League, which the NFL did, in '95 as just the 'World League' - six teams in Amsterdam, London, Scotland, Frankfurt, Rhein and Barcelona. In Oct. '97, the Monarchs changed their name from London to 'England' and got new white uniforms. In Spring '98, the NFL changed this League's name again to the better-sounding "NFL Europe". 

In Oct. '98 the England Monarchs moved to Berlin and became the Thunder, recycling the name of a former U.S. franchise. In Oct. '03 the Barcelona team was moved to Cologne [not aftershave!], Germany to give the four largest cities in Deutschland, NFL 'AAA' teams. Then last Oct. '04, Scotland moved to Hamburg, swords and all, to give Germany's five largest cities NFL 'AAA' teams. Now is the next move to change the name a fourth time to "NFL 'AAA' Dutch and Deutsch"? Or will the Admirals move in '06 and become the Essen Beer Barons?

This is getting dizzying! Still with me? The NFL 'AAA's kick off their 13th (and last?!) season with one Dutch team and five German ones (will anyone in the U.S. CARE?) and this money loser has been costing the $2 Bil-a-year American Football giant $20-$25 Mil. in loses for 13 years. When is a good time to pull the plug? Scotland had averaged around 9-to-11,000 fans per game for 10 seasons. Barcelona averaged about 6,000 before becoming the Cologne Centurians last year (Cologne averaged about 9,200 per contest) and London was down to 5,300 per game when they moved to Germany in Oct. '98.

Is this League still relevant? Depends on how you look at it. Below could be this Sports writer's last NFL Europe Preview. I've done them for ne source of another the last 12 years. I am losing more and more interest in this once decent fourth tier Pro Footie League. The CFL and Arena Leagues are way better. Good luck Werner Hippler, Marco Martos & Company. And I hope 'Cowboy Jack Bicknell' can win one more Euro Bowl. As Doug Flutie's college Coach, he deserves to go out with this League as it's all-time leading game winning Coach. Auf Wiedersehen!:

Amsterdam Admirals, 13th season. Overall Franchise record: 60-62. Two NFL E Bowl appearances, two losses. Coach: Jack Bicknell, the last of the original Coaches from the 1991 WLAF configuration, career record: 65 wins, 60 losses, the all-time winningest Coach in NFL E history. National players going to camp with Amsterdam: Two former Af2 Hawai'i Islanders, Kohei Satomi (DB) & Rikya Ishida (DE/LB), Concention Shurendy (LB), Antonio Rodriguez (LB), Aden Durde (LB) & Brit RB Warren Keen. Most of the National players are former Scotland Claymores and LB Masa Kawaguchi, who spent last NFL season on the an Francisco 48ers practice squad, has retired for good from Pro Football.

He started eight seasons at MLB for the Admirals and will be the first Amsterdam player to have his number retired. I predict a World Bowl victory for the Admirals, as they are the last Non-German NFL E team and are overdue. They lost the NFL E Bowl in '92 as the Montreal Machine and in '95 at home in Amsterdam even with a League leading 9-1-0 mark and with the best punter in NFL E (& NFL?!) history, Darren Bennett on board. Bennett lost two Pro Football Championships in a row in six months time that year as his San Diego Chargers also lost Super Bowl XXIX to San Francisco. Predicted finish: World Bowl winners.

Berlin Thunder, 13th season. Overall Franchise record: 60-63-1. Four NFL E Bowl appearances, four wins (Three as Berlin Thunder, one as London Monarchs). Coach: Rick Lantz (career mark: 9-2-0). National Players returning: Norb Baumberger (OL), Heinz Quast (K), RB Patrice Cancel, Astr SchneiDer (no realation to the Orlando backup QB in the Ar.FL) [LB], Mexican OLm Rolando Cantu, who spent last NFL season on the Saint Louis Rams practice squad, Finnish TE Klaus Alinen and Austrian DLm Denny Englebrcht. The Berlin Thunder /London (England) Monarchs are the most successful franchise in NFL E history, now 4-0 in NFL Championship games. They won't quite make it that far this year. History has dictated that every year but one, the year after they make the Championship game they miss the World Bowl the next year. That one time lightning struck twice. I don't see it happening again. They also don't get Rohan Davey back at pivot. This year's crop of NFL allocated QBs don't exactly inspire any NFL E fans. Berlin suffered a huge loss in the off season when both Klex Kruse and longtime NFL E stand out WR/KS Jorg (Baywatch) Heckenbach, a late cut from the Cleveland Browns (lucky guy!) retired with 67 catches in eight NFL E seasons for 800 yards and 8 TDs. Kruse also lead NFL E in scoring last season. I don't see them being that easy to replace. Predicted finish: fifth.

Cologne Centurians, 13th season. Overall Franchise record: 66-59-0. Five NFL E Bowl appearances, two wins (All as Barcelona Dragons). Coach: Pete Vaas (career mark: 25-27-0). Predicted finish: second place, berth in World Bowl. National players returning: The best of all-time in the NFL E's, TE/KS Werner Hippler, former San Diego Charger / Las Vegas Outlaw (XFL) & seven year, three time Frankfurt Galaxy Champion, WR Marto Marcos, QB Kentaro Namiki, WRs YuNakajima, Michiro Ogawa, LB Cedric Cotar, DB Tadani Sano and S German Marian Pusch. The former Barcelona Dragons finished the season a year ago as the hottest team down the stretch in the NFL 'AAA's, winning three of their last four games, that DIDN'T make the Championship. They rediscovered TE Hippler, who put off retirement to become Cologne's General Manager, who was big in the last two games and scored his first two Tds since his rookie season back with Frankfurt in 1995! It's doubtful that they'll get KR/WR Al Johnson III back, the former CFL Winnipeg Rookie of the year in '01, the year Winnipeg made their last Grey Cup. He would be a huge stabilizing factor, since most of these teams have to come together in four weeks of training camp in Orlando every spring right before leaving for Europe to play their games. Only longtime Nationals like Hippler, who played three years at Sacramento State in the U.S., comeback nearly every year (except when that "XFL", one hit wonder experiment came along - and he played there, too).

If Colgne can get one it it's two U.S QBs back - say Ryan Van Dyke, if he doesn't make the Los Angeles Avengers of the Ar.FL, they will contend. They have an excellent Coaching staff and outstanding Stadium to play in. Look for them to bullyup on 'new' oldcomers, Scotland, er, ah, Hamburg and make hamburg-ERS of the Sealegs!

Frankfurt Galaxy, 13th season, only original WLAF club in same city. Overall record: 64-61-1. Six NFL E Bowl appearances, three wins, three losses. Coach: Mike Jones (career mark: 7-4-0). Predicted finish: fourth place. National Players returning: OLm Jens Pettersson and Andre Mathes, Canadian DB Lenny Greene, LBs Dusty Pearce and Cuneyt Topcu, WR Hugo Lira and RB Marti Latka. Frankfurt has been to more World Bowls than any team in this League EVER has and is the only '91 WLAF team still in it's original home. They are the all-time leaders in attendance and have boasted some of the best Coaches this League has ever produced: Jack Elway, Dick Curl and Ernie Stautner, the only German born NFL Hall of Famer. Mike Jones is one of the most experienced Offensive minds in this League and will be an NFL Ast. Coach on Offensive any day now. He bides his time in the NFL 'AAA's. He will not get to the NFL E Bowl this year. Losing K Ralf (Mr. Automatic) Kleimann, the all-time leading scorer in this League's history is just too much to replace in one year. Plus, after winning their last World Bowl in Scotland, in June '03, they lost all-time great KS/TE Werner Hippler to Cologne. Most NFL shortimer TEs can't replace guys like that quickly.

Rhein Fire, 11th season, returning back to Dusseldorf after two seasons in Gelsenkirchen. Overall record: 58-47-0. Six NFL E Bowl appearances, two wins, four losses, both in Dusseldorf. Two wins, both in Gelsenkirchen. Coach: Pete Kuharchek (career mark: 22-20-0). Predicted finish: third place. National Players returning: K Ingo Anderbrugge, KR/WR Chris Liess, RB Marceline Laurent, S Rich Yancy (who spent last NFL season on the Dolphins practice squad), LB Rich (great name!) Adjei and three OLm; Mike Jonsson, Pete Heyer (who spent last NFL season on the New Orlean Saints practice squad) and Thom Reiser, from Switzerland. The Rhein Fire in this decade (or even century) have been bridesmaids but not brides. Bring back Danny Wuerffel?! Hardy. 

The Fire had a pretty good QB last year in current Chicago Bear and former under appreciated Cowboy, Chad Hutchinson. Parcells probably released him too soon. There is a one-in-six chance that NFL hungry Akili Smith could land here. But the probability is that he will go to one of the newer teams like Cologne or Hamburg. Rhein got into another World Bowl last year, but their undoing was there lack of depth. Unless a good buch of Americans or Canadians get here to help them this go-around, like Monica Jensen-Stevenson said in her book out the U.S. P.OW.s left in Vietnam, "Kiss The Boys Goodbye." Predicted order of finish: Third place.

Hamburg Swords, or Sealegs or whatever they now are, 11th season. Overall record: 44-58-0. Two NFL E Bowl appearances, One win, one loss, both as Scotland Scottish Claymores. Coach: Bart Andrus (career mark: 17-23-0). National players going to camp with Swords: DE Chris Mohr (no, not the punter / holder and third string QB from the Montreal Machine of yesteryear, who's now with the Atlanta Fal- cons), DE/LB Foad Ajdir, DE Rob Flickinger, WR Alejandro Gamez, RB Sandino Octobre and WR Carlos Rosado. I don't look for too much from the recycled Claymores and am still at a loss as to why the NFL didn't do a better job promoting the game in the English-speaking U.K. Yes, they will still have youth Footy there and have the flag football teams, which will later feed Team Europe, which competes in the Global Junior Footy tournies at the Super Bowls each year, but why does Deutchland deserve five of the six NFL 'AAA' teams? It doesn't make any sense. Unless this team gets a good NFL E vet QB or the newly rededicated Akili Smith, I think one win would be something of an accomplishment. Poor Coach Bart Andrus. Predicted finish: 6th place, no World Bowl appearance.

Predicted order of Finish:

1) Amsterdam, League Champions
2) Cologne, sorry Werner Hippler, no more rings...
3) Rhein
4) Frankfurt
5) Berlin
6) Hamburg (bah! Hamburg!...)" Moose

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