CALGARY – The rush to Florida for Calgary's Lumbala football family continues.

Hours after St. Francis High School grad Rolly Lumbala, 23, signed with the National Football League's Miami Dolphins, younger brother Steven Lumbala was tabbed Wednesday to represent Team World in an under-19 showdown with Team USA Jan. 30 in Fort Lauderdale.

Lumbala, 18, completed his first season with the Uteck Bowl champion University of Calgary Dinos in 2009 and heads back to the international stage after starring for Canada at the World Junior Championship last July in Canton, Ohio, where he was named the first team running back on the all-tournament team after winning the silver medal.

The 5-foot-11, 200-pound freshman tailback put up 310 yards in relief of Matt Walter in the 2009 Canada West season, adding four rushing TDs. He put up another 206 yards and two majors in the Dinos' four playoff games, with 156 of those yards and one TD coming in Calgary's most important win of the season, a 38-14 triumph over Saint Mary's in the Uteck Bowl at Halifax which propelled the Dinos into the Vanier Cup.

“After the way he played in Ohio last summer and then the season he had with us this season, Steven was a natural fit for this team,” said Dinos head coach Blake Nill. “He was a first-team tournament all-star for Canada at the world juniors last year, and this is another well-deserved honour for him.”

Lumbala, also a St. Francis graduate, is majoring in International Business at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business.

He will join 44 other players from eight countries and four continents on the international squad that will take on the American national U-19 team in a game designated by the NFL as an official Pro Bowl week event. NFL Network will provide live coverage from Fort Lauderdale's Lockhart Stadium, with kickoff at 10 a.m. MT on Saturday, Jan. 30. The AFC and NFC Pro Bowl teams will practice earlier that morning in the same stadium.

Head coach Jan Jenmert (Sweden) named 43 players to the roster Wednesday with the final two players to be named later. Canada leads the way with 31 athletes, followed by Sweden and Japan (three each), American Samoa (2), and single representatives from Australia, France, Germany, and Mexico. The event is sanctioned by the Paris-based International Federation of American Football (IFAF), which was created in 1998 to develop the sport through international cooperation and global competition.

For more information on the USA vs. The World event, including full rosters for both teams, visit www.USAvWorld.com/2010.

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