They're called the Yankaroos. They are the St Johns University Footy Club and they have two teams, one in based in Minnesota on the St Johns University campus and the other based at the South Fremantle Football Club in Western Australia. The club began a couple of years ago when USFooty’s Tony Fairhead and former Chancellor of University of Notre Dame Australia, Terence O’Connor, worked out a program for St Johns students on study abroad at Notre Dame in Western Australia.

(PHOTO: Danny Hansen lays a tackle during the NCC.)

The USFooty Revolution were in Florida for the third of their three planned training/practice games before heading to the International Cup in Melbourne, Australia. In the first, the Revs took on the Californian All-Stars in LA. The second saw the Revs dismantle the Atlanta Kookaburras in Atlanta GA. On the final weekend, the Revs took on the USFooty All-Stars and the Florida Redbacks as part of the Faststream Florida Invitational at the new Broward County cricket complex.

(PHOTO: Donnie Lucero benefits from Jeff Persson shepard)

The USAFL traveling squad for the 2008 International Cup has been announced. The selection process for the team known as the ‘Revolution’, began at the start of 2006 with their international match against Canada and has included a number of training camps and matches which culminated this past weekend in Florida. The 35 man squad has thirteen members of the 2005 squad which finished third at the International Cup including the 2005 captain Donnie Lucero and James Brunmeier who were both named in the 2005 Australian Football International Cup All Stars Team.

The Canadian Wolfpack, the U18 Canadian National Team, are touring Australia in August to take on some of Australia’s best youth teams. The Wolfpack dominated the U18 US Revolution team when the played in August 2007, so they are looking for this tour to measure themselves against the best young talent in Australia.