The building of a new sports complex in Lauderhill a suburb of Ft Lauderdale Florida has certainly been talked about many times this year in USA footy circles. For many its perhaps still hard to believe something like this is going to be available for use to the USAFL clubs and AFL clubs on tour from Down Under for training or even exhibition games.

The stadium which is due for official opening this month, will mean three areas available to play Aussie Rules and Cricket plus state of the art change room, entertaining and media facilities. Add a full set of lights to the equation and you have an amazing development opportunity for the game in the USA.

The local Ft Lauderdale Aussie Rules team called the Fighting Squids will host the first games of footy on the field at a specially arranged tournament over the weekend of April 12th -14th in 2008. There teams including Division 1 National Champions the Denver Bulldogs and Division 2 winners the Minnesota Freeze are expected to be the first teams to experience possibly the future home of USA footy and the USAFL National Championships.

We thank Ft Lauderdale Squids organizer Joshua Goodstein for this link to a slide showing off the stadium nearing completion. Slide Show.

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Written by ANZACCat07, on 01-20-2009 04:46 Awesome! I'm a future potential player in a North American team in 2010, as well as an AFANA Fan, I come from Geelong (Big Cats Fan) to hear the highlights of the growth of the game over there, makes me stoked (very happy)!

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