NFL Proposal for Olympic Flag Football in Los Angeles 2028 Approved by International Committee

The NFL approves the proposal for a flag football competition in Los Angeles 2028.

Arturo Olivédirector of the office of the NFL in Mexicoshared that along with the International Federation of American Football presented an initiative to Olympic Committee International for the flag football be olympic sport in Los Angeles 2028.

“This is in addition to the efforts we make with tochito and that, as I mentioned, we seek to position it so that it can become an Olympic sport in the Games of los angeles 2028 and this will be communicated by the International Olympic Committee in the following months, but while we do our work in the country as the international area of NFL”, Olivé said this Thursday.

In the same way, he trusted that the COI will give a favorable response to the proposal and that they have the full support of the NFL for this initiative.

“It is a decision of the COI. The case was presented by the International Federation of Footballsupported by NFL and for those countries where NFL has a presence and where we have robust programs like ours. Let’s hope, rather than anticipate an answer, let’s hope it’s favorable, but it depends on the COI“, held.

On the other hand, olive He shared that this opens the way for the women’s and men’s flag football teams to be competitive and that they are even preparing for next year’s World Cup.

“We saw the performance of Diana Flores with his team last year at the World Cup in Birmingham, Alabamaand now they are preparing for the Pan American Championship in July in North Carolinaboth the women’s and men’s teams and it is important because this tournament will be selective for the Finland World Cup the following year,” he said.

Regarding the absence of a game of the NFL in 2023 in the country’s capital, he insisted that they will have many activities for fans.

“The NFL is in the country, we will not have a game this year so everyone knows about the remodeling of the Aztec stadium. We are looking to develop initiatives that we will communicate later and we seek the approval of our headquarters in New York to communicate what we want to do from the time of the kick off of the season until the Super Bowl”.

Finally, olive inaugurated the Tochito-Lectura School Tournament, same in which 1,800 children from 100 primary and 100 secondary schools in Mexico City will participate.