Sweden head coach Jan Jenmert will assemble the top junior
American Football talent from around the world to compete at Lockhart
Stadium during Pro Bowl
PARIS,
FRANCE - Sweden junior national team head coach
JAN
JENMERT is to lead a 45-player roster of
the best American football players from around the world against USA
Football's junior national team in South Florida.
USA Football, the sport's national governing body on youth and
amateur levels in the United States,
will hold the first "Team USA
vs. The World" game in Ft. Lauderdale's
Lockhart Stadium on Saturday, January 30, 2010. The game will
match USA Football's 2010 Junior National Team - 45 of the country's
top high school seniors - against a "World" team composed
of the best players aged 19 and under from outside the United States,
spanning five continents.
Both teams will have practice opportunities in Ft. Lauderdale during the week of
the game. The NFL has designated the "Team USA
vs. The World" game as an official Pro Bowl Week
event.
The Jan. 30 contest will kick off at 1 p.m. ET, immediately following
AFC and NFC All-Star practices at Lockhart Stadium, which will be
open to the public. Fans will not be charged admission to
attend the multi-national showdown, which will be played under NCAA
rules with 12-minute quarters.
"On behalf of IFAF and the 57 countries that love and play
organized American football, we are delighted to have the world's
best high school-aged players compete in a great football setting
like South Florida amid the NFL's
Pro Bowl and Super Bowl," said IFAF (International Federation of
American Football) President
TOMMY
WIKING. "This will be an exciting day for our
game on many levels. The players and coaches will hail from
various countries and cultures, but they're united by a passion for
American football. It will be an exciting celebration of the
sport."
World team head coach Jenmert has selected a coaching staff
representing all four IFAF continental federations and seven
countries - Australia,
Bahamas, Canada, France,
Japan, Mexico
and Sweden They have already begun the process of selecting the best
available players from around the world.
The head coach of USA Football's team is
CHRIS MERRITT, head coach of Miami Christopher
Columbus High School. Merritt was the
2009 USA Football Junior National Team's defensive backs coach that
earned a gold medal in Canton,
Ohio, this past July in
the eight-nation IFAF Junior World Championship. The first such
tournament in football history drew more than 40,000 fans to Canton's
Fawcett Stadium during the course of four game days. Merritt will
lead a staff of nine American high school head coaches from five
states and USA Football's roster will be hand-selected through
research and film study and will be announced before Jan. 1.
"USA Football shares in the enthusiasm for January's game with
the dozens of national football federations across the globe,"
said USA Football Executive Director
SCOTT HALLENBECK. "This is a significant event
for the sport's continued international popularity and it will be an
incredible experience for our players and coaches to represent the United States in America's
favorite game."
World team coaching staff:
Coach
Position
National team
Jan
Jenmert
Head
Coach
Sweden
Masato
Itai
Offensive Coordinator Japan
Warren
Craney
Defensive
Coordinator Canada
Olivier
Moret
Special
Teams
France
Salomon
Solano
Defensive
Line
Mexico
Greg Marshall
Offensive
Line
Canada
Shinichi
Takeda
Defensive
Backs Japan
Peter
Tos
Tight
Ends
Australia
Marco
Ideluca
Running Backs
Canada
Kris
Kemp
Graduate Assistant
Bahamas
TBD
Graduate Assistant
--
Nicklas
Carlson
Strength
& Conditioning Sweden
Jan Jenmert, who has coordinated his country's
junior national program since 2005, coached Sweden
to the final of the 2008 European Junior Championship in 2008 and to
sixth place at the 2009 IFAF Junior World Championship (JWC).
He has also been the head coach of the Tyreso Royal Crowns since 1997
and was head coach and offensive coordinator of the Swedish senior
national team from 1996 to 1999.
Offensive coordinator
Masato Itai is
the head coach of Kansai University and helped Japan
win a bronze medal at the 2009 IFAF JWC as quarterbacks and wide
receivers coach. He played receiver for the Amsterdam Admirals
in NFL Europe and was named to the all-star team of the 2007 IFAF
Senior World Championship. Defensive coordinator
Warren Craney
also assumed that role on the Canada coaching staff
that won the silver medal at the 2009 IFAF JWC. The Chateauguay, Quebec, native has coached with
the Concordia Stingers of the CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sport)
for eight seasons.
Special teams coach
Olivier Moret
coached France
to seventh place at the 2009 IFAF JWC and third place at the 2008
European Junior Championship. He was the director of the French
Pôle Espoir, which ensures young players can continue their academic
studies while playing American Football. In 1987 Moret was a
founder of the Amiens Spartiates, one of the most successful clubs in
France.
Running backs coach
Marco Ideluca
has led the St. Leonard Cougars of the Canadian Junior Football
League to six conference titles and two national finals since
2000. He has been a member of the successful Canada
junior national team for seven years.
Defensive line coach
Salomon Solano
was on the staff of the Mexican team that took fourth place at the
2009 IFAF JWC. In 2008 he was a member of the Baltimore Ravens
practice squad and has represented Mexico as a player at the
junior national team level. Offensive line coach
Greg Marshall
is the head coach of the University
of Western Ontario Mustangs
and was a Grey Cup winning running back and head coach in the
CFL. He led his team to the 2008 Mitchell Bowl and the 2008
Desjardins Vanier Cup.
Tight ends coach
Peter Tos coached with the
successful Bondi Raiders club, winning ten championships, and will be
the head coach of the Australian under-19 team travelling to America
Samoa to participate in the 2010 Samoa Bowl. Defensive backs
coach Shinichi Takeda is the defensive coordinator for Osaka Sango
University High School and the Japan
junior national team that won bronze at the 2009 IFAF JWC. He
is also the Head Coach of the Suita Marvies in the Japanese X-League
Division 1.
Graduate Assistant
Kris Kemp from
the Bahamas is a
wide receiver at Taylor University in Indiana
and returns to the Bahamas
each year to help instruct the Commonwealth of American
Football League Summer Camp. He
plans to pursue coaching positions to further the development of
organized football in the Bahamas and is a
volunteer GA on the world team. Nicklas Carlson from Sweden
is the World team strength coach and coach Jenmert will appoint a
second graduate assistant chosen from a developing IFAF nation in the
coming weeks.
Philip K.A. Kemp INFO:
Freeport, Grand Bahama, The Bahamas
High School:
Sunland
Christian
College:
TaylorUniversity
Upland, Indiana (USA)
Year:
Junior
Major:
Chemistry
Sport:
Football
Wide Receiver
Ht:
6’1”
Wt:
190
HIGHLIGHTS:
Transferred to
Taylor
on a football scholarship.
Spends
extensive amounts of time with Offensive Coach Greg Wolfe studying offensive
schemes.
College of the
Bahamas:
2002-2004 Kris studied Biology and
Chemistry.
Following COB education,
worked Dolphin Cay as a Marine Mammal Specialist training dolphins and Sea
lions.
Sunland Christian:
Played basketball and ran track earning Athlete of the Year Award senior
year.
Returns to
Nassau,
Bahamas each year to help instruct the
Commonwealth of
American Football League Summer Camp.
Plans to pursue coaching positions to further
the development of organized football in the
Bahamas.
Kris is the son of Philip and Erica (Pratt) Kemp.
He also has one sister, Kimberly (John Rolle)
of
Nassau, N.P.,
Bahamas
and one brother, Kevin currently a Sophomore attending
McMasterUniversity,
Hamilton,
Ontario.
About IFAF
The International Federation of American Football (IFAF)
unites more than 50 countries on five continents through a burgeoning
international sport. With national football federations in
existence for more than 70 years, IFAF was created in 1998 to organize
and further develop the game through international cooperation and
global competition. Having conducted Senior World Championships
(players aged 20 and older) since 1999 in Europe and Asia, Summer
2009 in Canton, Ohio, represents the first IFAF Junior World
Championship (19 years and younger). The IFAF office is located
near Paris, France. For more,
visit www.ifaf.info.
About USA
FOOTBALL
Independent
non-profit USA Football, the sport's national governing body on youth
and amateur levels, manages U.S. national teams
within the sport for international competitions. USA Football hosts
more than 100 football training events annually and is comprised of
members in all 50 states (coaches, game officials, youth league
commissioners). The organization also provides more than $1
million annually in equipment grants and youth league volunteer
background check subsidies. USA Football, America's
sole delegate to the International Federation of American Football,
which spans 52 nations and five continents, was started by the NFL
and NFLPA in 2002 through the NFL Youth Football Fund.