Jun 27, 2021
A total of six Japanese players were chosen in the Canadian Football League’s April draft, but none are declaring victory after having only earned a flight to North America.
All must now fight to make the active rosters of their respective teams by putting on strong preseason performances.
The 2021 CFL season was originally slated to start on June 10, but that start was pushed back to Aug. 5 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The players will depart for Canada next week ahead of the start of training camp on July 10.
The regular season will start on Aug. 5 and each team will play 14 games – four fewer than the usual schedule. It will be the league’s first action since November 2019 after the 2020 season was canceled as a result of the pandemic.
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May 3, 2021
When Tomoya Machino started playing football at Kyoto University, he was new to the game and wanted to play a position he thought was cool.
Machino, a former high school baseball player, was a lot thinner back then and never envisioned becoming an offensive lineman. Shortly after joining the school’s football team, the Gangsters, he submitted his position requests in the following order: tight end, wide receiver and offensive lineman. Noting that one of his taller teammates played wideout, the 197-cm Machino believed taller players would be chosen for the receiving corps.
“They score touchdowns and stuff like that and look cool, don’t they?” Machino told the Japan Times in a Zoom interview late last month. “I wanted to play that position at the time.”
Dec 16, 2020
The Obic Seagulls made their long-awaited return to the X League summit Tuesday night, knocking off the league’s current dynasty.
The Seagulls, based in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, dethroned the four-time reigning champion Fujitsu Frontiers in a dramatic 13-7 victory in the Japan X Bowl at Tokyo Dome.
Obic’s victory gave the club its record ninth X League title and first since 2013. The Seagulls also prevented the Frontiers from breaking a tie between the two franchises for the most consecutive X Bowl victories the Seagulls went 4-0 in the game from 2010-2013, while the Frontiers had been looking to extend their own streak to five.
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