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Canada national junior football team

Canada national junior football team

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The Canada National Football Junior Team a.k.a. the Football Canada World Junior Team represent Canada in international gridiron football competitions. The football program is part of the football development program and is controlled by Football Canada and is recognized by the International Federation of American Football (IFAF). It is the premiere team in male development for the organization. While Football Canada is the governing body for amateur Canadian football, IFAF-sponsored games are played using American football rules. Team Canada first competed on the world stage in the NFL Global Junior Championship in 2000 with a championship victory over Team Europe. They competed for their first IFAF Junior World Cup in 2009.[1]

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Canada developed the Football Canada World Junior Team as an elite program which participated in the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) Under-19 World Championship which was scheduled held every two years from 2012 until 2020. This tournament was previously known as the IFAF Junior World Cup.

The IFAF U20 World Junior Championship replaced the U19 format and is staged once every four years starting in 2024 in Edmonton, Canada.[2] With the 2020 championship cancelled due to COVID-19, there were efforts to restage that event in 2021 as a U20 aged event in Vancouver, but was still subject to Pandemic cancellations.[3]

History

Football Canada became a full member of the IFAF in 2004.[4] Thereafter Canada competed in international junior, flag, and women's football events.[5]

Team Canada is the most successful team at the IFAF World Junior Championships, with three championships and two silver medals. Canada is the only national team to win back-to-back championships in 2016 in Harbin, China over the United States, followed up with a 2018 win in Mexico, 13–7 over the host Mexicans in front of 30,515 at Mexico 68 Estadio Olympico.[6]

The roster of the Canada national football junior team is players aged 20 and under and are typically from U SPORTS, Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL), Quebec-based CEGEP schools, high school or community football programs. The head coach for the program is selected by Football Canada and appointed prior to selecting the remainder of the tournaments coaching staff or players. Warren Craney was appointed head coach of the 2024 team, reprising his role from 2016. In the 2024 World Junior Championship, Canada will field a "B" Team named Canada II, coached by former McGill Redbirds Head Coach Ronald Hilaire.

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    "2009 Junior National Team". footballcanada.com. Football Canada. Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
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    "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-12-12. Retrieved 2020-08-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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    "A Brief History of Football Canada". footballcanada.com. Football Canada. 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
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    "Canada". ifaf.com. International Federation of American Football. 2011. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
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    https://www.americanfootballinternational.com/canada-defeats-team-mexico-wins-gold-medal-at-2018-ifaf-u19-world-championships/#:~:text=U19%20World%20Championships-,Canada%20defeats%20Team%20Mexico%2C%20wins%20gold%20medal,2018%20IFAF%20U19%20World%20Championships&text=Team%20Canada%20defeated%20Mexico%2013,Mexico%20City's%2068%20Olympic%20Stadium Archived 2020-08-08 at the Wayback Machine.
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