{"id":63898,"date":"2018-06-15T18:57:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T01:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=63898"},"modified":"2018-06-15T18:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T01:57:13","slug":"elffers-signs-with-samsung-frankfurt-universe-of-the-germany-football-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=63898","title":{"rendered":"Elffers Signs with Samsung Frankfurt Universe of the Germany Football League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_63899\" style=\"width: 629px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=63899\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63899\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63899\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Samsung-Frankfurt-Universe-Andrew-Elffers-1-e1529113891936.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Samsung-Frankfurt-Universe-Andrew-Elffers-1-e1529113891936.jpg 619w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Samsung-Frankfurt-Universe-Andrew-Elffers-1-e1529113891936-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Samsung-Frankfurt-Universe-Andrew-Elffers-1-e1529113891936-297x300.jpg 297w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Samsung-Frankfurt-Universe-Andrew-Elffers-1-e1529113891936-148x150.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Elffers in his first game in the Germany Football League.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>Former Maranatha\/ Azusa Pacific quarterback Andrew Elffers has signed with the Samsung Frankfurt Universe- a power house in the Germany Football League.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Elffers played his first game last Saturday with Frankfurt and his next game is Saturday June 16.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63900\" style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=63900\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63900\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/samsung-frankfurt-universe-elffers-2--e1529114016613.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/samsung-frankfurt-universe-elffers-2--e1529114016613.jpg 417w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/samsung-frankfurt-universe-elffers-2--e1529114016613-54x70.jpg 54w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/samsung-frankfurt-universe-elffers-2--e1529114016613-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/samsung-frankfurt-universe-elffers-2--e1529114016613-115x150.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elffers scrambles for big yards.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Elffers starred in high school at Maranatha before going on to play at Azusa Pacific where he was the full time starter over the majority of the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The competition is fairly good over here. There&#8217;s a lot of NFL bounce backs,&#8221; Elffers said. &#8220;My first game playing was for their mid season championship called the Euro Bowl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For Elffers it&#8217;s an opportunity to continue playing the sport that he loves.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63901\" style=\"width: 492px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=63901\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63901\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63901\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63901\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/samsung-frankfurt-universe-elffers-3--e1529114174958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/samsung-frankfurt-universe-elffers-3--e1529114174958.jpg 482w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/samsung-frankfurt-universe-elffers-3--e1529114174958-63x70.jpg 63w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/samsung-frankfurt-universe-elffers-3--e1529114174958-269x300.jpg 269w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/samsung-frankfurt-universe-elffers-3--e1529114174958-135x150.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elffers first game in the GFL was the &#8220;Euro Bowl.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson Former Maranatha\/ Azusa Pacific quarterback Andrew Elffers has signed with the Samsung Frankfurt Universe- a power house in the Germany Football League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3827,8101,13220,13219,7907,13218],"class_list":["post-63898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-news-notes-around-professional-football","tag-andrew-elffers","tag-azusa-pacific-football","tag-euro-bowl","tag-germany-football-league","tag-maranatha-football","tag-samsung-frankfurt-universe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63902,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63898\/revisions\/63902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}