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46-699: The league was founded on 1 April 1998 with four foundation clubs: Inland Empire Eagles , Los Angeles Crows , Orange County Bombers , San Diego Lions . They were joined in 1999 by Santa Cruz 'Roos and in 2000 by the Phoenix Scorpions . In 2002, the Inland Empire Eagles club folded and the Santa Cruz 'Roos left to focus on GGAFL . The Phoenix Scorpions changed name in 2003 to become the Arizona Hawks , then left in 2004 to join

92-627: A 47-point win. In 1986, Roos polled a career high 16 votes in the Brownlow Medal to finish runner-up. He ended his career with 121 Brownlow votes (98 with Fitzroy and 23 with Sydney). Roos was appointed captain of Fitzroy in 1988 and led the club in 122 games until 1994. During his playing career at Fitzroy, Roos was selected as an All-Australian in 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991 (as captain) and 1992 (as captain). He also represented Victoria in State of Origin as captain. Roos left Fitzroy at

138-725: A lack of hunger and even went so far as to say that his team was "clearly incapable of winning the premiership", but the Sydney Swans under Roos managed to reach the 2006 AFL Grand Final against the West Coast Eagles , losing by one point. In Round 12, 2007, Sydney faced Collingwood , and lost in a game that Roos described as the worst game he had ever coached in his five-year stint at the Swans. He responded by dropping star forward Barry Hall , who had been struggling with injury. Roos also accused Carlton of tanking to gain

184-591: A local league. Each year the USAFL holds a National club championship , a tournament open to all clubs across the nation, the largest of its type in the world for the sport. In addition to the Nationals, the USAFL holds major regional tournaments including the Central, East and West regional tournaments. The USAFL selects the national men's ( USA Revolution ) and women's ( USA Freedom ) teams for competitions such as

230-412: A meditation teacher from San Diego . They have two sons, Dylan and Tyler, the latter of whom appeared on The Amazing Race Australia in 2019 and is currently dating American tennis player Amanda Anisimova . In September 2003, Roos ruptured his Achilles tendon during a game of social basketball, and was seen on crutches during the Swans' qualifying final win over Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium

276-425: A move hugely popular with Swans fans, who remembered his great contribution to the club as a player. As caretaker senior coach, Roos immediately transformed the dispirited Swans players. Several who had struggled under Eade blossomed under his leadership. Surprisingly, the Swans won most of their remaining games that year (six of their last ten), and the fans soon let it be known who they wanted as coach by reviving

322-844: A successful coach. He was the senior coach of the Sydney Swans from 2002 to 2010 and guided the Swans to the 2005 Premiership after they had finished the regular season in 3rd place on the ladder. The Swans' previous Premiership had been 72 years earlier when they were the South Melbourne Swans. Roos then coached the Melbourne Football Club from 2014 to 2016. Roos grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Donvale and played junior football with Beverley Hills Football Club in Doncaster East . He attended Donvale High School from 1975 until 1981. As Beverley Hills

368-586: A third successive priority draft pick when the Blues lost its final 11 matches of the regular season, most by lopsided margins (which ultimately led to the sacking of his Carlton counterpart Denis Pagan ). This included a 62-point pasting from Roos' Swans in Round 15, the penultimate round before Pagan was sacked. In early 2008, Roos was alleged to have been in the centre of a match-fixing controversy involving wingman Jarrad McVeigh . His alleged instructions to McVeigh

414-458: A third year. Roos replaced Melbourne Football Club caretaker senior coach Neil Craig , who replaced Mark Neeld , after Neeld was sacked in the middle of the 2013 season. On 28 July 2014, Roos signed on for the third year. He has been accredited for helping the Demons improve their fortunes on the field; the club under Roos in his first season as Melbourne Demons Football Club senior coach in

460-527: A three-year contract. While Roos was at the Swans, he was one of Sydney's best in the 1996 AFL Grand Final loss to North Melbourne . He again qualified as an All-Australian in 1996 and 1997. He finished his playing career at the Sydney Swans with 87 games and 19 goals at the end of 1998 . In his playing days, he was often cheered by supporters with a distinctive, deep rolling roar of "ROOOOOOS!". When his playing career ended, in 1999, Roos moved to

506-501: A tight match. In 2008, the Swans under Roos made the finals in 6th position and then made a terrific 35 point come-from-behind win against the North Melbourne Kangaroos in the elimination final. The 2009 season , turned out to be Roos' worst ever season at the Swans, and the Swans' worst season since 1995, when it failed to make the finals, winning only eight games (five of which came in the first nine rounds of

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552-400: The 2005 AFL Grand Final , the Sydney Swans under Roos, would also kick 8.10 (58), this time defeating the West Coast Eagles which scored 7.12 (54) to win the premiership . Roos proved his critics wrong by leading the Swans to their first premiership in 72 years, with a hard-fought win against the West Coast Eagles in the most thrilling Grand Final for a number of years. Many believe that

598-412: The 2014 season won four games for the season and eighteen losses, where they finished seventeenth, which is the second-last placed position on the ladder. However this doubled their total tally from the previous season, and its percentage improved from 54.07% in 2013 to 68.04% in 2014. He also delivered on the promise of the club being "the hardest to play against". However, in Round 21, 2014, Roos and

644-657: The Arizona Australian Football League . Further changes in 2004 introduced the Mojave Greens and Valley Vandals , and restructuring allowed several clubs to enter multiple teams in the regular season (Orange County: Huntington Beach Hammerheads , Inland Empire Fire , Orange County Crush ; San Diego: Cougars, Jaguars). The CAFL is a member of the USAFL South-Western Ausfootball Region . In 2005,

690-650: The Australian Football International Cup and the 49th Parallel Cup . The first match between two local US clubs was played in 1996 between Cincinnati and Louisville . In the first year the Mid American Australian Football League was formed. Many of the local players had found out about the game in the 1980s on television via the then-nascent ESPN cable network. Although the local game grew, ESPN no longer broadcast AFL matches, and in response

736-591: The United States , his wife’s homeland, Roos then spent some time in the United States and coached the national side to victory over Canada . He is often credited as one of the key people in the success of the fledgling United States Australian Football League , establishing networks with key people in the country. Returning to Australia and the Sydney Swans, Roos then became an assistant coach under senior coach Rodney Eade in 2001. Part-way through

782-468: The Western Bulldogs in the second week of the finals by the same margin. He retired at the end of the season and was replaced by assistant coach John Longmire in a succession plan. In all he coached 202 games for Sydney, including 16 finals, 9 of which were won. On 6 September 2013, Roos was appointed senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club on a two-year contract, with the option of

828-408: The 2002 season, with the Swans' record becoming worse by the week, Eade resigned. The club administration started the search for a new coach and it is widely believed that negotiations with Terry Wallace were at an advanced stage. Nevertheless, when Eade finally went with several games of the minor round still to be played, Roos was appointed caretaker senior coach for the remainder of the 2002 season,

874-558: The 2003 season (despite reportedly having to pay Wallace a considerable amount to unwind their almost-concluded deal with him). Under Roos' coaching, Sydney Swans participated in every finals series between 2003 and 2008. They made it to the preliminary final stage in 2003, the semi-final stage in 2004, won the Premiership in 2005 and almost retained it in 2006, losing the Grand Final by only one point, and then got eliminated in

920-617: The AFL's change of rules for the 2006 season was in direct response to the Swans' style of play, but this was later denied by the AFL. In the 2006 pre-season, Roos briefly returned to the US with his Swans side for an exhibition match against the Kangaroos at UCLA , and suggested that this should become an annual event. Things became serious when the Swans lost at home to the rampant Adelaide Crows by 39 points, 15.11 (101) to 8.14 (62). Roos cited

966-566: The Canada Northern Lights in five of seven contests. The Revolution competed in the 2002 Australian Football International Cup , finishing 5th out of 11 countries and in the 2005 Australian Football International Cup finishing 3rd out of 10 countries. They competed in the 2008 Australian Football International Cup , where the Revolution finished 7th out of 16 countries. At the 2011 Australian Football International Cup ,

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1012-612: The Couch on Fox Footy alongside Gerard Healy and Mike Sheahan between 2011 and 2013. Following his tenure as Melbourne coach, in November 2016 Roos joined radio station Triple M in a special comments role as well as returning to Fox Footy as an expert commentator both positions he retains. Prior to being appointed as the senior coach of the Melbourne Demons in 2013, Roos was reluctant to coach another club after leaving

1058-496: The Demons came under fire after suffering a 64-point defeat to an injury-hit Greater Western Sydney side which could only operate a one-man bench in the entire second half. In the 2015 season , Melbourne Demons under Roos finished in thirteenth place on the ladder with seven wins and fifteen losses. In the 2016 season , Melbourne Demons under Roos finished in eleventh place on the ladder with ten wins and twelve losses. Roos stepped down as Melbourne Football Club senior coach at

1104-510: The Grand Final, and both would lose to Ireland. Paul Roos (footballer) Player Representative Coach Paul Roos (born 27 June 1963) is a former Australian rules football coach who coached the Sydney Swans and Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). As a player, he represented Fitzroy and Sydney during the 1980s and 1990s. A versatile key-position player, Roos

1150-593: The Liberty went 3-2 in five matches against teams from various leagues in and around Melbourne. After the postponement and subsequent cancellation of the International Cup in 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024, both the Revolution and Freedom took part in the 2024 AFL Transatlantic Cup , one of three regional tournaments scheduled by the AFL to sustain the international Aussie Rules game until the International Cup could be restored. Both American teams would advance to

1196-455: The Revolution finished 4th in an increased field of 18 countries. The Revolution finished 8th at the 2014 Australian Football International Cup , again with 18 countries participating. They would come in 4th at the 2017 Australian Football International Cup which, as of 2024, was the last edition. After completing a tour of Australia in 2009, the Freedom were one of five teams to compete in

1242-524: The Sydney Swans. Despite informal inquiries from other clubs like West Coast , Adelaide , Melbourne , Gold Coast , Carlton , and the successor to his old club Fitzroy, the Brisbane Lions , Roos had repeatedly insisted he has no intention of coaching another AFL club Roos was critical of the substitute rule which was introduced by the AFL in 2011, claiming that the rule, which aimed to lessen injuries resulting from collisions, could have

1288-496: The United States . It was conceived in 1996 and organized in 1997. It is based in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin . As of 2011, there were over 1,000 registered USAFL players. There are 48 member clubs, of which 47 have men's teams (all except North Star Blue Ox) and 25 have women's teams. Most of the football clubs in the United States have a traditional 18-a-side team for representative purposes and multiple 9-a-side teams running in

1334-490: The best US-born players from the club teams across the country. With close proximity to Canada, the Revolution & Freedom participate in the annual 49th Parallel Cup against Canada each year except for years of the Australian Football International Cup . As of the last edition in 2023, the Revolution men have won eleven of the twelve meetings against the Canada Northwind, while the Freedom women have fallen to

1380-505: The end of 1994 to join the Sydney Swans. In leaving Fitzroy for Sydney, Roos cited financial difficulty, the departure of key players (such as Gary Pert to Collingwood ) and the club's relocation to the Western Oval as the main reasons for moving to Sydney. Roos played for Fitzroy Football Club from 1982 until 1994, where he played for a total of 269 games and kicked a total of 270 goals. Roos joined Sydney Swans in 1995 on

1426-572: The end of the 2016 season and was replaced by assistant coach Simon Goodwin in a succession plan. After retiring from coaching at AFL level, Roos was appointed head coach of the QBE Sydney Swans Academy, he is the main leader of the academy which has over 300 players. In addition, he had several football-related media roles, including writing for the Herald Sun and doing match day analysis for Fox Footy . He also hosted On

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1472-469: The famous "Roooos" call. Despite this, the club administration continued their talks with Wallace (and perhaps others). Finally however, they were unable to ignore the players' own support for Roos, when, after a win in the last game of the year against Richmond , all the players surrounded Roos on the field and, unprecedentedly, themselves joined in the "Roooos" call. The administrators knew when they were beaten, and appointed Roos as full-time senior coach for

1518-459: The first International Cup Women's Division at the 2011 Australian Football International Cup , finishing third. At the 2014 Australian Football International Cup , the Freedom finished in third place again while a reserves team, the USA Liberty, came in last of the seven competing teams. Three years later, the Freedom finished fourth at the 2017 Australian Football International Cup while

1564-633: The first week of the 2007 finals. They made it to the second week of the 2008 finals. But 2009 was the second time under Roos' leadership that they didn't make the finals. Roos also implemented a policy of giving up first round draft picks in exchange for players from other clubs: namely, Darren Jolly , Ted Richards , Peter Everitt , Martin Mattner , Rhyce Shaw and Shane Mumford in the years 2004–2009 inclusive. all of whom earned more game-time than they did at their original clubs; this policy paying off for Paul Roos. In 2005, Roos' coaching style

1610-683: The league went into indefinite stasis with clubs participating in either the newly formed Metro Footy league the Southern California Australian Football League and the US Footy Nationals . This article related to sports in California is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Inland Empire Eagles The United States Australian Football League ( USAFL ) is the governing body for Australian rules football in

1656-465: The lobby group, Australian Football Association of North America was formed. In 1997, the first club national championships were held in Cincinnati. Nashville hosted the first Australian Grand Final Festival in the same year. The United States Australian Football League (USAFL) was formed in 1997 to govern the code in the country. The involvement of many well-known Australians has helped boost

1702-453: The match 15.11 (101) – 8.10 (58), a result which proved to be the turning point in the Swans' season, only losing three more matches (by single margins) for the rest of the year. Roos and the Swans would however have the last laugh as they defeated the Saints in the preliminary final with a 15.6 (96) – 9.11 (65) win, denying them a shot at their second premiership. Coincidentally, in

1748-529: The media, especially in Melbourne, as the ugly ducklings . Roos and his Swans were criticised for their game plan in a match against St Kilda in mid-2005. This led to the media, led by Andrew Demetriou and the Network Ten commentary team, led by Stephen Quartermain , Tim Lane and Robert Walls describing their game plan as "disgusting" and "ugly". The Swans misbehaved during the match, and lost

1794-506: The opposite effect of forcing injured players to stay on the field: The thing that concerns me the most is you can interchange a guy in the third quarter so he comes off, can't come back on again, and you get an injury in the last quarter of the game and you've got a healthy player sitting on the bench doing nothing and an unhealthy player still in your rotations. That really, really concerns me. Teams Individual Teams Individual In 1992, Roos married American native Tami Hardy,

1840-645: The relations between the USAFL and AFL. In the early days, Paul Roos was a key figure. Robert DiPierdomenico , Leigh Matthews and Michael Voss are official USAFL ambassadors. USAFL is responsible for the co-ordination of the National Teams, the USA Revolution men's team and the USA Freedom women's team. The team plays in international tournaments and exhibition matches against other countries. National team players are selected from

1886-431: The season) and finishing in 12th position. At the end of the 2009 season, Roos announced that he would retire and step down as senior coach of Sydney Swans at the end of the 2010 season. Roos coached out the 2010 AFL season where the Sydney Swans returned to the finals after last year's absence from the finals. They defeated Carlton by five points in its home elimination final but the following week were eliminated by

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1932-795: Was a strong mark who was excellent at ground level, and in his prime was rated the best footballer in Australia. He was one of the Fitzroy Lions' finest players in its final years, and was named at centre half back in Fitzroy's Team of the Century. In his 17 seasons of League football, he was only reported once, for abusive language, and was found not guilty. Roos was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2005. He has won many accolades throughout his career: he

1978-406: Was criticised by AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou , who referred to the Swans' defensive and negative style of play (presumably the tactics of flooding , and retaining possession through short chip kicks). Demetriou even went so far as to claim that the Swans would never win a premiership playing such an unattractive style of football. As a result of Demetriou's criticisms, the Swans were labelled by

2024-510: Was in Fitzroy 's recruiting zone , Roos was selected to play for the Fitzroy Lions in their Under 19's team. Roos made his senior VFL debut for Fitzroy in Round 4 of the 1982 season against Sydney , the club he would eventually move to 13 years later. Also making his debut along with Roos was 16-year-old Gary Pert , who became one of Roos' best teammates. In Round 9, he was named at full-forward against St Kilda and kicked seven goals in

2070-509: Was named All-Australian seven times; received the league's most valuable player (MVP) award; and represented Victoria on 14 occasions in State of Origin. He is also the AFL/VFL record holder for the number of games played wearing the number 1 jumper, which he wore throughout his 356-game career with both the Fitzroy Lions and the Sydney Swans. After finishing as a player, Roos went on to become

2116-429: Was to "go forward, just don't kick a goal" during the final stages of the Swans' NAB Cup match against Hawthorn , which the Swans lost by two points. Roos was cleared of any wrongdoing by the AFL one month later, as it turned out to be a joke regarding McVeigh's poor accuracy during the 2007 AFL season . He also coached from the bench in the first match of the 2008 season in which his Swans were beaten by St Kilda in

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