Seven-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady said he “couldn’t be more excited to return to the field” as he announced he will play in a flag football tournament in Saudi Arabia next year.<\/p>\n
The former quarterback retired from American football in 2023 following a NFL career during which he won six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n
The 48-year-old is now set to join current and former NFL stars for an inaugural flag football tournament in Riyadh on 21 March.<\/p>\n
The event will feature three teams in a round-robin format as the sport builds up to making its Olympic debut at Los Angeles 2028.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t be more excited to get the competitive juices flowing alongside some of the game’s brightest stars and iconic legends, and bring a truly unique global sports event to fans everywhere,” he said.<\/p>\n
Current NFL players Saquon Barkley of the Philadelphia Eagles and Tyreek Hill of the Miami Dolphins will be joined by free agent Odell Beckham Jr. and Rob Gronkowski, Brady’s long-time Patriots team-mate.<\/p>\n
The teams will be coached by Pete Carroll, Sean Payton and Kyle Shanahan, while organisers say they will announce further participants from “across sports and entertainment”.<\/p>\n
“I’ve always admired the power of flag football and how it connects fans of all ages,” added Brady.<\/p>\n
“It’s awesome to be able to showcase the sport on such a global stage while joining together so many incredibly skilled athletes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady said he “couldn’t be more excited to return to the field” as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-147108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}