There was no men’s event at the World Games in China, where there was a repeat of the women’s final from 2022 in Birmingham, Alabama.<\/p>\n
Mexico shocked USA on that occasion by winning 39-6, though the Americans beat Mexico in the past two World Championship finals – in 2021 and 2024.<\/p>\n
And Mexico showed that their 2022 gold was no fluke by clinching a dramatic victory in a game which went right down to the wire.<\/p>\n
Mexico led 14-7 at half-time before USA edged into a 21-20 lead, as they added the extra point after scoring a touchdown with just 28 seconds left on the clock.<\/p>\n
But the defending champions were able to get into position to snatch victory and with just three seconds remaining, quarterback Diana Flores found a wide-open Victoria Chavez in the end zone to spark emotional celebrations among the Mexico players.<\/p>\n
“I’m so proud,” said Flores. “We just played the greatest football here and I’m blessed to be part of it.”<\/p>\n
Pierre Trochet, president of the International Federation of American Football (Ifaf), added: “It’s a thrilling time for flag football.<\/p>\n
“This was simply an amazing tournament – the best ever in our sport’s history – and a huge step forward on the road to Los Angeles 2028.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was no men’s event at the World Games in China, where there was a repeat of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-75346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75346","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=75346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}