Nick Alfieri

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Nicholas James Alfieri (born May 27, 1992 in Portland ) is an American - Italian American football player in the position of inside linebacker , who has been a member of the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns team in the German Football League (GFL) since December 2015 .

Life

Origin, education and private life

Nick Alfieri comes from a sports-loving extended family from Portland in the US state of Oregon , and is the second oldest of six children of the couple, Phil and Kelly Alfieri. The two had met while studying at Oregon State University and married in 1987.

His father Phil studied sociology and psychology between 1983 and 1988 and played as a linebacker for the college football team, the Beavers. After graduating, he was in the New York Jets squad from April to September 1988 . Then worked in various positions in personnel management and insurance until 2009. His mother Kelly studied exercise physiology . She was a member of the university's athletics team, practiced 400-meter hurdles and took part twice in the Pac-10 championships . She started her career at the Human Performance Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University . Since 2008 she has been the director of the Catholic Youth Organization and since 2011 she has been the assistant director of the sports program at Valley Catholic School in Beaverton, which is affiliated with the Archdiocese of Portland .

His brother Joey played football at Stanford University and was later under contract with NFL teams. The other brothers were also drawn into competitive football: Andy made the jump to the football team at the University of California, Berkeley , brother Mikey went to Oregon State University , and in 2017 Anthony was a member of the second team at the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns. Sister Jamie served in the football field as the Pac-12 Conference umpire piecer .

First, Nick Alfieri attended Valley Catholic School in Beaverton, later until 2010 the Jesuit High School in the same place and then moved to the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville ( Connecticut ) for another year . He then enrolled at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and studied marketing at the McDonough School of Business there between 2011 and May 2015 . During this period he was involved in the Children's Cancer Aid of the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation and as a mentor in the reading promotion program DC Reads . In the summer of 2015 he started studying at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles , but dropped out after just one semester in favor of his sporting career in Germany.

In July 2017 he received Italian citizenship and is therefore an EU citizen. This is possible due to a special regulation: His paternal great-grandfather emigrated from Italy to the United States, but only took US citizenship after his son - Nick Alfieri's grandfather - was born. Thus, all descendants are entitled to have Italian citizenship because they are descended directly from an Italian.

Athletic career

Nick Alfieri played his first American football games in the Catholic Youth Organization's sports program at Valley Catholic School. He later joined the official school team, the Valiants. These play under the umbrella of the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) in the 4A-classified Cowapa League. After moving to Jesuit High School, Alfieri was active with the local Crusaders within the 6A classification in the Metro League, which is generally considered to be the strongest school league in Oregon and an amalgamation of six schools in the west of the Portland metropolitan area . There he was involved in winning the Metro League title in 2009 and reaching the finals of the state-wide 6A championship. This final, played on December 12, 2009 in Reser Stadium in Corvallis , the Crusaders lost 43:50 against the Irish from Sheldon High School in Eugene . During his training at Hotchkiss School he then played with the Bearcats in the Founders League, which is organized by the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC).

After he was accepted on a sports scholarship at Georgetown University, he joined the college football team of the Hoyas for the college football administered by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) . They belong to the Patriot League , which is assigned to the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) - the second division in college football after the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). In his first season in 2011, as a freshman , he was employed in the position of linebacker and in the special teams . Later he played both as a linebacker and as a defensive back and safety , which gave the trainer more versatile options in defense . For the 2014 season, he was now a senior , he was appointed team captain . He got the second most tackles in the Patriot League this year . During the four seasons between 2011 and 2014, the Hoyas had played 44 games, of which Alfieri played 41. The team won 18 games, lost 26 and always missed the play-offs during this time . For Nick Alfieri himself, however, his time in college football was quite successful: He achieved a total of 322 tackles, making him only the third athlete in the history of the Hoyas to surpass the 300 mark.

On December 16, 2015, the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns announced the commitment of Alfieri, he made his debut in the GFL at the start of the season on April 16, 2016 with a 26:21 home win against Frankfurt Universe . In Alfieri's first season , the Unicorns won all regular season games and only had to admit defeat to the New York Lions in the German Bowl XXXVIII with 20:31. In 2017 and 2018 they also won all games, this time even in the finals of the German championship - in 2017 they fought the German Bowl XXXIX with 14:13 against the New York Lions and in 2018 they beat the German Bowl XL Frankfurt Universe 21:19. In both seasons, Alfieri led his team's tackle statistics. In autumn 2018 he received an offer from the Florence club Firenze Guelfi from the Italian Football League , but declined it and announced on November 6 that he would play for the Unicorns for another year.

With the 63:21 away win at the Stuttgart Scorpions on June 15, 2019, the Unicorns won their 41st game in a row. They broke the previous record of THW Kiel for the longest winning streak in German national leagues (= highest leagues) for team sports. The series had started on April 30, 2017 (first game of the corresponding season) and the Haller were able to expand it to 50 wins by September 28, 2019, the play-off semi-final against the Dresden Monarchs . In mid-October the streak of success ended in the German Bowl XLI of all places , when Alfieri and the Unicorns lost 7:10 to the New York Lions . A few days later, on October 18, 2019, Nick Alfieri announced that he would also be committed to the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns in 2020 and thus for a fifth season.

Apart from the league operations, he moved into the field of view of the association representatives there by acquiring the Italian citizenship. In January 2018 and July 2019, for example, he was invited to three courses for the Italian national team by the umbrella organization Federazione Italiana di American Football .

Injuries

Alfieri is considered one of the strongest linebackers in the GFL. Nevertheless, he has only been able to fully exploit his potential in the 2017 and 2018 seasons , as he has repeatedly been thrown back in his career by injuries that forced him to take long breaks. For example, in the 2016 and 2019 GFL seasons, he was only able to play eight of the 17 season games due to injury.

During his time at Georgetown Hoyas, he suffered an injury on September 7, 2013 in a 42-6 home win against the Davidson Wildcats and was out for two games.

His first season in the GFL was early interrupted by a serious injury: In the fourth game, the 37: 14 home win against the Saarland Hurricanes on 28 May 2016 he withdrew in the second play of the game a broken left collarbone to . After surgery and recovery, he did not play for the Unicorns again until September 3, in the 35:28 away win against Frankfurt Universe - the last game of the regular season . He missed the last two games of the 2018 regular season and the play-off quarter-finals against the Cologne Crocodiles because of a torn muscle . In the German Bowl XL , which the Unicorns won against Frankfurt Universe on October 13, 2018, he broke his right index finger; However, he was able to cure this injury in the subsequent free time. On June 28, 2019, Alfieri was involved in a traffic accident in the urban area of ​​Schwäbisch Hall on his way to training, through no fault of his own , when he was hit by a car on his scooter in a roundabout . He broke his right big toe, then missed six games and was only used again on September 21 in the play-off quarter-finals against the Berlin Rebels .

Working life outside of sport

Alfieri intends to become a filmmaker after his football career ends. In high school he was responsible for the highlight compilations of the football games. During his studies at Georgetown University, he made several short films , of which Gray Areas received an award at the Georgetown Film Festival 2014 in the category "Best Dramatic Film". In the summer of the same year, Alfieri worked briefly for the small production company Sky Studios in Portland, which specializes in advertising and event films. In the last weeks of his studies he also worked as a co-producer of the buddy film Lady-Like , which was filmed by Brent Craft in Georgetown in May 2015 .

Nick Alfieri has been working on his one and a half hour documentary Unicorn Town since March 2016 . This mainly deals with the course of the GFL season 2016 from the point of view of the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns, but also describes the life of the players in the city and the environment of the club. Brent Craft acts as co-producer and in January 2019 announced that the NFL - running back Christian McCaffrey einsteigt as a producer with. He was a roommate of Nick's brother Joey at Stanford University and thus became aware of the project. Alfieri and Craft showed a preview version of the film on June 24, 2019 in Schwäbisch Hall in front of more than 300 spectators.

In addition, since March 29, 2016 , Alfieri has been providing insight into his everyday sporting and private life as a foreign American football player in Germany on his YouTube channel NALF .

successes

Success with the club

Personal awards

  • Six varsity letters (3 × American football, 3 × running)
  • 2010: Jesuit High School Most Improved Player
  • 2010: All-Metro League Second Team
  • 2011: Hotchkiss School Most Outstanding Player Award
  • 2011: All New England Team
  • 2011: Founders League All Star
  • 2011: Patriot League Academic Honor Roll
  • 2012: CoSIDA Academic All-District Division I Football Team
  • 2013: All-Patriot League Second Team
  • 2014: Preseason All-Patriot League Football Team
  • 2014: USA College Football FCS Preseason All-American Third Team
  • 2014: Corvias Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week (KW 38 & KW 45)
  • 2014: USA College Football FCS National Linebacker of the Week (KW 38)
  • 2014: All-Patriot League First Team
  • 2014: Joe Eacobacci № 35 Memorial Jersey

statistics

Physical data
size Weight 40 yard dash (≙ 36.6 m) Bench press (84 kg) Standing vault
182 cm 102 kg 4.65 s 21 repetitions 88.9 cm
Nick Alfieri college and GFL match stats
season society league Games S - U - N Tackles Sacks Pass Defense Fumbles
solo Branch Total TFL-Yds №-Yds Int-Yds BU PD Qbh Rcv-yds FF
2011 Georgetown
Hoyas 		Patriot
League 		11 (11) 08 - 0 - 3 033 1 - 00
2012 11 (11) 05 - 0 - 6 091 0.5 - 1 - 34 1 - 00 1
2013 09 (11) 02 - 0 - 9 092 7.5 - 1.5 - 1 - 00 2
2014 10 (11) 03 - 0 - 8 46 60 106 05 - 11 0.5-4 1 - 42 1
2015 no American football played
2016 Schwäbisch
Hall
Unicorns 		German
Football
League 		08 (17) 16 - 0 - 1 24 32 056 07-14 0 - 00 2 - 86 3 5 0 0 - 00 0
2017 13 (17) 17 - 0 - 0 41 57 098 18-63 7 - 49 3 - 49 1 4th 0 0 - 00 0
2018 14 (17) 17 - 0 - 0 43 40 083 06-22 1 - 10 0 - 00 6th 6th 0 2 - 87 0
2019 08 (17) 16 - 0 - 1 20th 31 051 03 - 04 0 - 00 0 - 00 1 1 0 0 - 00 1
2020
Legend
  • Games: Number of games played by Alfieri in each season. The number in brackets shows how many games each team played.
  • S - U - N: Number of wins, draws and losses.
  • Solo: Number of sole tackles.
  • Ast = Assisted tackles: Number of tackles in which Alfieri was not involved alone.
  • Total: Sum of the tackles from the two previous values.
  • TFL-Yds = Tackle for loss yards: Number of Alfieri successful tackles for loss and the amount of yard loss incurred by the opposing team. Tackles for loss end attempts by the opposing quarterback or another opposing player behind the line of scrimmage .
  • №-Yds: Number of Alfieri successful sacks and the amount of yard losses incurred by the opposing team.
  • Int-Yds = Interceptions -Yards: Number of Alfieri successful interceptions and the amount of yard losses incurred by the opposing team.
  • BU = Passes broken up: Number of passes broken up by Alfieri that did not end in an interception.
  • PD = Passes defended: Number of passes that Alfieri has fended off (sum of Int + BU).
  • Qbh = Quarterback hurry: Number of quarterback hurries forced by Alfieri. A quarterback hurry is given if the defense player exerts such pressure on the quarterback at most three seconds after the snap that he cannot position himself correctly or has to end the move by kneeling down quickly.
  • Rcv-yds
  • FF = Forced fumbles: Number of forced fumbles forced by Alfieri, in which an offensive football player loses the football from his grip.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b The Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) organizes its school teams in more than 35 leagues or conferences. These are divided into six classes according to the number of pupils in the participating schools: In the leagues of the 1A classification, the schools with the fewest pupils play, in the leagues of the 6A classifications, the schools with the most pupils.
  2. ↑ After reporting on the alleged record of the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns, other sports clubs reported and claimed to be able to show longer series of victories. The rugby union team of the Heidelberg Rowing Club claims to have won a total of 87 league games in a row between October 1, 2011 and May 7, 2016 . The Bamberg diving club and the Ultimate Team Bad Skid from the Heilbronn region are also questioning the Unicorns record because of their own achievements.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Valley Catholic High School Athletic Department Staff 2015-2016 , p. 1.
  2. ^ Joey Alfieri - Football. Accessed March 7, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ San Francisco 49ers. Retrieved March 7, 2020 (American English).
  4. ^ Andy Alfieri - Football. Accessed March 7, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Mikey Alfieri - Football. Accessed March 7, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ a b c Julia Brenner: "Football + Film = NALF". In: UMag , № 1/2019, pages 8–12. Retrieved from unicorns.de on March 8, 2020.
  7. ^ ASAP Sports Transcripts - Football - 2015 - PACIFIC-12 CONFERENCE MEDIA DAYS - July 31 - David Coleman. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Maya Peters: "The most beautiful city in Germany". On July 12, 2017 on swp.de ( Südwest Presse ). Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  9. ^ A b "Nick Alfieri Wins GFL Championship with Schwäbisch Hall". On October 31, 2017 on guhoyas.com (Georgetown Hoyas). Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  10. ^ "In the Huddle with Nick Alfieri". On November 21, 2014 on wearegeorgetown.com . Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  11. ↑ SONO ITALIANO - DUAL CITIZENSHIP. In: youtube.com. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  12. ↑ a b c Profile of Nick Alfieri on the Georgetown Hoyas website. Retrieved from guhoyas.com on March 8, 2020.
  13. ↑ List of OSAA football championships between 1940 and 2019. Retrieved from osaa.org (Oregon School Activities Association) on March 8, 2020.
  14. ↑ Götz Greiner: "American footballers from Schwäbisch Hall win 41 times in a row - THW Kiel record broken". On June 16, 2019 on swp.de ( Südwest Presse ). Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  15. ↑ "What the Unicorns have achieved has never been achieved by any other German team - in any sport". On June 17, 2019 on echo24.de . Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  16. ↑ Sebastian Mühlenhof: "Unicorns create the record". On June 16, 2019 on football-aktuell.de . Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  17. ↑ Maximilian Sepp: "Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns with an impressive winning streak". On June 15, 2019 on swr.de ( Südwestrundfunk ). Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  18. ↑ "Comunicato Ufficiale n. 1 del 8 gennaio 2018". Retrieved from americanfootballinternational.com on March 8, 2020.
  19. ^ "Comunicato Ufficiale n. 20 del 12 giugno 2019". Retrieved from italia.fidaf.org (Federazione Italiana di American Football) on March 8, 2020.
  20. ↑ "Playoffs: Cologne comes to the quarter-finals". On September 19, 2018 on football-aktuell.de . Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  21. ^ A b "Nick Alfieri's Talents Extend Beyond the Gridiron to Film". On June 3, 2014 on guhoyas.com (Georgetown Hoyas). Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  22. ^ "Football Connection Brings Nick Alfieri Together with Brent Craft to Produce Feature-Length Film". On May 6, 2015 at patriotleague.org ( Patriot League ). Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  23. ↑ Michael Fiedorowicz: "Comedy to Shoot in Georgetown Neighborhood". May 1, 2015 on thehoya.com . Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  24. ^ "Panthers star McCaffrey produced documentation about Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns". On January 23, 2019 on ran.de ( ran ). Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  25. ↑ "Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns conquer America!" On January 24th, 2019 on echo24.de . Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  26. ↑ Axel Streich: "Unicorn's film is running in the canteen - maybe soon on Netflix". On June 21, 2019 on swp.de ( Südwest Presse ). Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  27. ↑ Hartmut Ruffer: "Unicorns player Nick Alfieri shows a preview of his Schwäbisch Hall film". On June 26, 2019 on swp.de ( Südwest Presse ). Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  28. ↑ a b Profile of Nick Alfieri on the Sports Management Worldwide agency's website . Retrieved from smwwagency.com on March 8, 2020.
  29. ↑ Nick Alfieri's profile on the recruit.thepodyum.com homepage . Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  30. ^ Official statistics website of the German Football League. Retrieved from stats.gfl.info on March 7, 2020.

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personal data
SURNAME Alfieri, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alfieri, Nicholas James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland