Joseph "Yossi" Behar #5

Team Captain

QB, S

2 years

Improving as a player and more importantly a better individual 

Favorite moments include, winning the regional championships 2 years in a row, wonderful memories I shared with my team that I will never forget for the rest of my life

"Big time players make big time plays in big time situations"

Avi Behar #83

3 years on Mo Steel

Personnel Accomplishments: 2002 and 2004 USFTL Defense All American Award

Favorite Moment: Winning the World Championship in Vancouver with all your friends and having the best time of your life.

Personal Quote: "Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog" 

Isaac "E.C." Halberstein    # 6

WR, MLB

2 Years

Personal Accomplishment: Becoming a better player, person, and great competitor.

  Favorite Moments: Some of my favorite moments were winning Regional's in Jacksonville, competing and playing for the National Championship in Wide World of Sports, and winning The World Cup and the MVP award  February 20 - 23 2003 in the Bahamas.

I honestly don't even remember how I came about being apart of this team but, I just want to say it was one of the best things that has ever happened to me.My best friends today were people I met by being apart of something great. Thanks Fried for the opportunity, It was a great experience full of memories that will last a long time.  

Baseball and football are very different games.  In a way, both of them are easy.  Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.  Baseball is easy if you've got patience.
They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient. 

Bo Jackson

Bernard Klinger a.k.a. Fuego # 84

Team member for 4 years

-My favorite moment was during one of the games in the J league. I didn't really play much all game and Fried looked at me and said Bernard you ready to make a play, I looked at Fried and said I'm ready. I was playing the front right side, i remember Sean Klitzner telling the QB that he has a huge mismatch on me and that its an easy first down. That same play the QB threw the ball to Sean and I dove right in front of it and Intercepted it.

-Also playing in Iowa for the Jr Olympics in the summer of 2005 was awesome. we were playing for the Bronze medal and i was dead tired. My muscles were all tense and my legs were just killing me but i still played my heart out and put it all out on the field. I couldn't even control which way my legs were moving anymore. At the end of the game we came out on top and even though we didn't play for the Gold it was still a incredible feeling and a major accomplishment to come out with the Bronze medal with the young team that we had.

-Some other favorite moments have to be when Adam Supraski stretched his ball sack to his knees after dinner one night. Also when Ariel Levy's mom cooked Shabbat dinner and it stunk up the whole entire bus, we ended up throwing that food away and going to sweet tomatos. One of the funniest moments from all of our trips was when we were in Jacksonville and Willie May the bus driver told those guys "We Kosha We don't eat pork". What about when Yossi started crying during the world cup in cocoa beach hahahahah.....J/K Yos i love you..

-There are so many funny moments but I cant put them all down here...

-The worst moments were when Fried got kicked out at nationals and when Yossi went down with a concussion and John Goldberg refused to play QB.

-My Quote:" Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”

-Other quotes: "Not a problem" -Leo.....

Best hotel we stayed at: Knights Inn

**I miss this team so much and it was really an amazing experience, I wish we would have accomplished more as a team but it was still incredible. Every time I think of the trips and tournaments I just wanna go back and do it again it was so much fun.

Name: Elliot Lief # 21

Years on Team: 2

Team Captain for Inaugural Season

Favorite Moment: Playing on ESPN for nationals

” The Man that says he can and the man that says he can’t are both right...which one are you”

Alex Ciklik #84

4 Years on Mo Steel

Accomplishments include the NFL World Cup Championship 1st and 2nd place, NFL National Champion, IFFF World cup champion, USFTL national champion, let it fly national champion,

My favorite moment was winning the world cup in Vancouver with my friends and family watching.

"It’s like fighting a gorilla, you don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired"

always remember when we beat zoom

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Daniel Lederman # 32

Years on Mo Steel: 3 (2001-2004)

Favorite Moment- Winning the world championships even though I didn't play I still felt like I did

“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail”

Andrew “Boner” Goldman #25

1 year on Mo Steel from Jacksonville, FL

Accomplishments: NFL National Championship, World Cup Championship and making a loads of close friends

Favorite Moment: When I mossed 3 kids in the World Cup

Personal Quote: "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

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Trevor Ballard #80

C, LB

1 year on Mo Steel

Personal accomplishments: Making the best friends of my life through this team, establishing relationships that are thicker than blood, actually being on the team (waited three years), played great this past summer and managed to start at the Jr Olympics and played my heart out.

Favorite Moment: The whole Jr. Olympics. I worked my ass off for 2 weeks during the summer. I only missed one, two-hour practice and never sat out a single drill. When the tournament ended, I accomplished what I came for. It was my personal best performance. One play, i was the primary coming out of the backfield to the left and a defensive man followed me out to cover me. As he was running side-ways towards me, I remember what was taught to me about the play: "If someone is covering you, do a swim move and cut under" That was exactly what i did, and cut right under the defender and caught the ball for the extra point.

Personal quote: "To live is to suffer, but to survive, that's to find meaning in the suffering"

Israel trip was the best experience of my life. From playing ultimate frisbee in the middle of the desert at night for two hours, to teaching Israelis how to play football, I couldn't have asked for a better trip. Best birthday of my life; Masada, dead sea and two football games in the wet, blistering cold.

Ryan Woogin #28

Years on the team: 2001-2002

Personal Accomplishments:

I can say that in the NFL national championship in our first game I caught the game winning touchdown to beat the soon to be back to back national champions even though it should of been us winning both of them.

Favorite Moment: To many to name but one that sticks out in my head was when we were in Tampa in Ebor City we saw this homeless guy who scared the hell out of all of us with probably the longest tongue anyone of us has or ever will see

Personal Quote: “listen to the friedisms”

Brandon “Gums” Leib #2

Favorite moment is when I led my team as quarter in let it fly.

Benny Bursztyn #6

WR, LB

 
Years on the team- 4 
 
Personal Accomplishments- 
2 time NFL National champion 
IFFF world cup 5 on 5 champion 
3 time IFFF world cu 8 on 8 champion 
Let it Fly national Champion 
3 time USFTL nation champion 
NFL WORLD CHAMPION 
MVP- 03-04, 04-05 
Captain 04-05 season 
 
Favorite Moment- winning the NFL world Championship in Vancouver. We went  
undefeated and brought back the World Championship defeating Mexico 18-47 
 
Personal Quote- 
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we  
are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most  
frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing  
enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around  
you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us;  
it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give  
other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own  
fear, our presence automatically liberates others. "- Coach Carter 
 
"Don’t hate the player, hate the game" 
 
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up"- Vince  
Lombardi 
 
"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again  
after you fall." Vince Lombardi

Spencer Grabois #19

Years on the team: 4

Position: C/WR & DB

Personal Accomplishments: 2 Regional Championships; 2 National Championships; 1 World Championship; 3 USFTL Championships; World Cup 5 man championship; 3 World Cup 8 man championships; Bronze AAU Iowa; Silver AAU New Orleans; 2 Let it Fly National Championship

Favorite Moment: After we won the world championship in Vancouver.

Personal Quote:The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender

Steven O'Hayon

QB #11

4 years on the team

I grew as a great leader and player. I was able to learn to think more about the game and what I needed to do to get US to win. I learned how to play on a team, how to work like a team, how without great teammates and especially a spectacular coach, nothing can ever be accomplished. I learned that hard work can get you to any place you want to go to. I accomplished many feats during my 4 years on Mo Steel, but i have realized that i personally, could have done nothing without my teammates and coach.

There were too many amazing moments for me to be able to pick only one. But if i had to, winning the World Cup in Vancouver, Canada probably tops it all. Representing your country and then being crowned as the 'World's Best' , is an experience that has settled inside of me and will dwell there for ever. I would have to say that no other experience can ever be greater than August 7, 2004 in Vancouver, Canada.  

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others." -

Robert Louis Stevenson  

      or

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants."

Jordan Heller

#26

3 years on team

Accomplishments: 2 time Offensive MVP for USFTL, Golden Hands Award

Personal Accomplishments: Getting confidence in my game, learning how to be an all around player, and giving myself a championship attitude and work ethic.

Favorite Moment: catching the flag route in Dominican Republic that gave us our final 1st down which won the championship  

Quote: Being average is being as close to the bottoms as it is to the top, stay on top. J.H.

Yoni Dagan

Jersey #: 3

Years on team: 1 and 05 summer

Personnal Accomplishments: Turned from a nobody to a somebody in football. Won so many championships that i never thought i would have. Won offensive player of the year for 03-04. Won a bronze medal and silver medal at the jr. olympics. Learned the value and chemistry of a family inside a sports team. Learned how to handle competition and how to stay poised and focused (which goes to everything in life).

Favorite Moment: Winning the Nataional Championship in Orlando. It was the first championship we won as a team. It was by far the most incredible experience i have ever been through. Also, in Vancouver being there as a team and family was a heartwarming experience, and something i will never get a chance to do again.

Personal Quote: "Failing to prepare, is preparing to fail." This quote i think about almost every day because it really goes for every situation in life, especiallu school and sports.

Ariel Fraynd

Number 28 (The One AND Only 28)

2 years on the team

Personal Accomplishments: MVP of 2005 AAU Junior Olympics, 2004 World Cup Flag Football Defense MVP, 2004 Rookie of the Year, 2004 Defensive Player of the Year, Silver and bronze medalist in Junior Olympics, World Champs in 2004 NFL FLAG World Championships 

Favorite Moment: My favorite moment is when our team played team GOLD in the 4 on 4 South Miami league this was during the playoffs single elimination, and it came down to the last play and they had the ball on the goal line, if they scored we won and if we stoped them we won, i ended up sacking the quaterback and we won the game.

Personal Quote: "Veni, vidi, vici.[I came, I saw, I conquered]" .......AND ......"Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records"....... AND......... "All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims". .......AND........"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"

Joel Furrer

Years on Team: 4

Position WR, C, DB

Personal Accomplishments:

Regional Championships; 2 National Championships; 1 World Championship; 3 USFTL Championships; World Cup 5 man championship; 3 World Cup 8 man championships; Bronze AAU Iowa; Silver AAU New Orleans; 2 Let it Fly National Championship

Favorite Moment:

Leading my team to two wins in the tackle leauge after both of our quarterbacks got injured.

Personal Quote:

"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail."

Andrew "Brewsky" Brodsky #8

Team Captain

QB, S

4 years

Favorite Quote - I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
~ Michael Jordan

 and

 For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.
~ Emmitt Smith

 Favorite Moment - Winning the Gold Medal in the 2006 AAU Junior Olympics in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Another one of my favorite moments were going around the globe to places like China and Israel with my teammates who became my brothers.

The Program - For me it started out when I was 12 years old playing on the JCC Hurricanes. We were a bunch of kids who had never before played and didn’t really know the game. That whole year was a very difficult year and only 2 players on that team returned the following season. I remember I called Fried that summer to see when the try-outs were for next year and he asked me if I had gotten faster taller and stronger over the summer. Since I had become all of those he wanted me to try-out for Mo Steel instead of the Hurricanes. I was 12 years old and the youngest member of the team. Fried told me that year that I wasn’t going to get much playing time and I had to be patient and wait for my opportunity. My moment to shine came 10 months later in the 2004 AAU Junior Olympics. In the bronze medal game on 4th down we were down by 3 with little time left and the play was a broken play. I remember getting myself open and I caught the game winning touchdown. I believe that, that one catch catapulted my career on the team. From then on things only got better. That year we qualified for the NFL World Championships in Beijing, China. We trained for months for that tournament and we finished 2nd place in the world, an unbelievable accomplishment. After that I played my last year on the team and finished it off with my Gold Medal. Being on Mo Steel was the best thing to ever happen to me and I made me meet some of my best friends that I still have today. We were like one family of brothers and it didn’t matter who we were up against, we ALWAYS stuck together.

2 NFL National Championships; 1 World Championship; 4 USFTL Championships;
World Cup 5 man Championship; 4 World Cup 8 man Championships; Bronze AAU
Iowa; Silver AAU New Orleans; Gold AAU Virginia; 2nd Place NFL World Cup in
Bejing China; 2 Let it Fly National Championship; Regional Championships