American Football Association of Brazil
The AFAB, or Associação de Futebol Americano e de Futebol de Bandeira (Flag) do Brasil is the main organization for American football in Brazil. Its main goal is to help the growth of American football and its development in the country.
History
In the summer of 1986, a small group of boys started playing soccer on weekends, in Copacabana beach, always looking for new friends call and then interested in the strange arrangement.
On January 4, 1992, with the increase in the numbers of players, the Rio Guardians was founded, becoming the first team of American football on the beach in Rio de Janeiro as its symbol a tower of chess, in allusion to the fortification installed at the foot of the hill of Sugar Loaf, and their colors as the white, black and gold.
In 1994, with the holding of a workshop of the flag football (flag football), organized by Mel Owens (ex-professional footballer of the American NFL, the LA Rams), Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon appear in the scenario of the sport for the first instead, the Mamutes that with their red shirts would become the first opponent on the beaches of Rio Guardians
After some departures held between 1994 and 1997, the nucleus of what eventually became the Association of Rio de Janeiro is preparing to start his career in a more organized, starting a job that lasts until today, with the planning and organisation in the 1st Carioca Bowl with the participation of six teams.
After seven years, where we had among other activities transmissions to the outside and demonstrations for the NFL stars as Tony Gonzalez, the Association of Rio now with fourteen teams and a championship with more than 50 games a year, before finally documenting the government to AFAB—AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF FOOTBALL AND THE FLAG FOOTBALL (FLAG) OF BRAZIL, aiming to help the expansion of American football and its modalities in Brazil.