Women's American Football

I was browsing for some midsummers day fun and found this article about women's american football at "The Local". It talks about the first ever women's world american football championships going on in Sweden right now. I had no idea American football was even of interest in Sweden, much less that the president of the international federation of american football is a Swede. The federation was founded in 1998, which might explain why I didn't know it had developed some interest in Sweden since I basically moved in 1999. The competing countries are USA, Canada, Austria, Germany, Finland and Sweden.