JAPAN X CANADA | IFAF U20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL | Game Highlights 

It's an international tournament not league. They don't play every year like NFL, UFL and etc.

The thing is... Canadians are playing Canadian Football and players were able to adapt for a different ruleset in like... two weeks or so.

Was rooting for Japan too.

@@masterdenfifahope it keeps growing. Makes the sport better to have international players

@@teo_heel Sort of. Canadians who are interested in football watch lots of American college ball and NFL, so they're not starting from square 1. And players wouldn't be truly Canadian if they didn't aspire to working in the USA!

not sure if you know but Canada has had a professional league for 100 years.

@hughdunbar9823 wasn't talking about Canada, but Austria, Brazil, Japan and all the other countries with fledgling programs.

as usual, Canada the best at American Football. kookookoo!

You expect the Canadians to be good at football but to see Japan do so well in this tournament must be a very pleasant surprise for Japan and their fans. Good job.

@@The_Zilli ACTUALLY - the only one's surprised by Japan is everyone who didn't know they've been playing football since 1930. Trust me, their fans aren't surprised at all.

​@LaytonFreeze well based on what I've seen I'd be pissed as a fan if that's what almost 100 years of football looks like.

​@@Yung-Ohld why? Japan beat USA badly in the previous game, and this was pretty close

@@Yung-Ohld That's a pretty reductive view. They were in the title game. I think they're fine. They just ran into a more talented team.

Great job getting to the final! Football is a huge sport here and has been for 100 years, so well done Japan.

I love to see Japan playing my favorite sports! If you into anime, please watch Eyeshield 21! This was just amazing

Japan played well and made the game exciting!! Keep up the good work Japan

Same, some could probably play DIII

thank you, Mr. Eric!!!

You don't realize that Canadians are playing Canadian Football and players had a little time to adapt for American Football ruleset. And they still won. That's incredible.

great for austrian players!!! my nextr travel to Euripe I want yo go to visit your beautifull country, Auf Wiedersehen!

IMO the US team didn't took this tournament seriously.

​@@dantankunfiveancestorsfist It's not important enough, really. Not when kids in the US that play at that age are playing in college, or in the process getting to college.

​@@LaytonFreeze remember. it's also not important enough for these kids in other countries too. in fact, it's much more meaningless and the support infra is little to none. some kids even started playing in college.

@@dantankunfiveancestorsfistit's not like other countries take American football seriously. loss is a loss.

There are a handful of D1ers usually every year at this tournament, for example one of Japans WRs is playing D1, cant remember the school of the top of my head. They also have a pro league and a college league that are very well established, around 50 years for them called "X League" I gotta say their linework is incredible, and I expect we'll be seeing some Japanese O-Linemen in the NFL in the next 10 years. Usually Canada will have a handful too, not sure about this year but definitely in the past. They have college and pro too in the form of CFL, which most would say is the second best football league in terms of talent. I am Canadian and I would say we probably take the tournament the most serious and usually send most of our best guys, but a lot of the Canadian D1 commits don't play for this because their college restricts them from doing so, just like the US players. At least a dozen D1ers every year from Canada but most don't play for the national team, they don't need/want to since they're already recruited to a big school. USA team has had quite a few but this year's roster is by far one of the worst put together when you consider they've had talents like Jameis Winston and Jordan Poyer play for the national team. I am assuming USA will be back for vengeance next tournament with how much notice has been put on this one. I'm really looking forward to the next one since this one got so much recognition!

We didn't send any good player if we did it would 200-0 at halftime😂😂🤡

@@Tpnathan38yea I don’t think any top prospects even considered playing in this tournament these other countries sent out there best meanwhile we had a bunch of 2-3 star high schoolers no shade to those kids but it was a clear mismatch

Anyone with nfl or power5 potential won't play in this game.

@@KcSoundzENT.. 3* high schoolers would’ve beaten them by 30 plus, your talking legit D1 football players..

​​@@KcSoundzENTThis was an under 20 playoffs and USA didn't send their top players and didn't want to win against the national teams is crazy and unheard of but keep talking. Isn't football America's game? I think we might of traded spots. Cause ngl Americans are dominanting in hockey right now. Look at the Canucks, half of them are American and I feel like we finally have a fighting chance now. Better than the 23/24 season.

Canada is now three time WJFC champions

Canada had two squads, because both Mexico and Sweden didn't make it and both Brazil and Panama were added instead of just winner of their game in the qualifiers.

Canada owns IFAF

I think it's the athleticism. Canadian players are more athletic than American players at average. That's because the US programs have emphasized strength, power and size so much through the years, aspects of athleticism such as quickness and agility have been largely overlooked. Canadian athleticism plays well with Canadian football where the field is bigger and the number of players are smaller. You can see the Americans couldn't handle the agility of undersized Japanese players whereas the Canadians had no problem with that. If you have the athleticism, then size matters a whole lot. On the other hand, it's true that team USA weren't made up of their best players. If they had brought in their best players, their pure bulk and force probably would've stopped the Japanese team flat and clean. But as a longtime "football" fan in Japan, I'm really surprised that our team won, even against a third tier US team.

@@clubeyxander5132huh. Makes no sense at all. USA has the best american football, and basketball teams globally. What you said makes 0 sense.

@@clubeyxander5132no it’s because this tournament is geared at increasing American football interest in other countries so they limit who the USA can add to their team. If the USA brought their best players every team would get seriously hurt😂.

@@Precisepete NO, you didn't get my point. The US are the best at American football, period. If they wielded their best players in this tournament, half of the other teams wouldn't even make it home. It used to be like that even when the US brought their 3rd division teams. What I was saying is that because the American programs are concentrating so much more on size and power, the athleticism gets overlooked from the second tier and beyond. I'm not talking about the very best players. I'm talking about things at average. And my statement that Canadian football is more athletic is just a fact based on the size of the field and number of players. You should watch some CFL once in a while, it's uniquely different from the NFL. There's more space, and they run a lot more, too. I'm not saying it's better, I'm just saying it's different. But if you don't want to listen, it's OK with me. I was just replying to the person who asked whether USA sucks or not. My plain answer was, they don't. I just provided my insight into why their team lost.

@@clubeyxander5132stop cooking

Why aren't they good at rockets?

​@@earlysda- are you kidding? Didn't Japan land a rocket on a comet, collect a sample, and have the rocket return to Earth?

@@emptyhand777 empty, yes, they did, and everyone had great expectations for their rocket program, but the country's program has had many failures (today's launch was successful tho), and the only private launch ended spectacularly several months ago too. . Some Japanese were even making jokes that Japan can learn about rockets from "Rocket Man" who continually shoots them over into Japan's EEZ.

@@earlysda You seem to know a lot about rockets, and yet seem to overlook a lot about its history and the present day industrial situation. First, Japan's rocket program is among the best in the world. It's not as grand as NASA's, it's just that they specialize in smaller payloads rather than the gigantic ones that the US are so good at. A while back, the Japanese program was at a loss because the Americans had officially banned the Japanese from liquid fuel rocket development after WW2. They started their program from scratch, developing solid fuel rockets, something the whole world had deemed it to be useless other than using it as fireworks. This really payed off, though, because by the 1990's Japan had developed a solid fuel rocket capable of launching satellites into orbit. Japan is still the only nation capable of this feat and is the sole leader in the field of solid fuel rockets. Because solid fuel rockets are more economically efficient than their liquid fuel counterparts, Japanese rockets of present day are known to be highly cost efficient. Of course, they also make liquid fuel types now; they combine the two to get the best efficiency. And about the failures, their newest H3 rockets have had some initial technical failures but it's on track now. They've never had any crash downs or any of the kind, you know. The predecessor to the H3 rocket, the H2 rockets are known to be one of the least prone to failure in the modern day. Things aren't exactly the same as the US, but they are doing quite well in their own rite.

I tell people them Japanese dont mind learning lol

FYI there would be a huge age gap these kids are under 20 so 18/19 year olds not 19/24🤷‍♂️

@@sueyates9127 well obviously but there are plenty of starters that's 18/19 that's on the field right now in ncaa. The freshman starters that are 18/19 can go up against 19/24 but they can't 🤔. But fair point

I believe it was no more than 50% collegiate players (D3 only even then), and the remainder with high school players...

@@A350Airwaysthe other team are all high school players🤦‍♂️

This is a 3 peat for Canada at this tournament

No they too busy making millions in the NFL

@@codyzimmer9257 definitely not referring to the pro’s bud. Whatever league this is and however they recruit the players on the team USA is what I’m getting at.

No we aren't we send low level d3 player 😂 if we send our best it would be 200-0 at halftime🤡

@@Tpnathan38 I don't even think team USA has D3 players out there. Not a single 4 star or 5 star recruit on the team, might not even have a 3 star recruit if were being serious.

Ya they are playing the "oh ya well we didn't send the good players" card. They need to suck it up say congrats to the winners and move on.

@@thegammingdinosaur189 why r u talking to yourself😅

@@thegammingdinosaur189 they can’t let it go 😂😂😂

The fact that Canadian players are playing Canadian Football and they were able to quickly adapt for a different ruleset is incredible.

Japan lost their two best players in the offense (QB #5 and RB #2) so I think that took a toll from them

Limping didn't they beat one team 110 to 0? Sour grapes must be an American?

@@thegammingdinosaur189 OMG do you real think Brazil counts as a football country? No I am a Canadian who make a living in the sport.