Team American Sports

Team American Sports, also called the American Sports Team is a Special Team in The King of Fighters series.

Description
As the name implies, this team formed by American sports practitioners, and represents the United States of America. This team has not appeared in many games, only canonically appearing in The King of Fighters '94 and later appearing in the non-canonical game The King of Fighters '98 (and its remakes).

There is a running joke in the series that they get their invitations stolen by other fighters. The clearest example is in the  '97 tournament, when the team would enter it, but the invitations were picked up by Team Orochi (Team New Faces in that entry) by beating up the members of this team. The other example occurs in the  '95 tournament, which the team is stolen by the first Team Rivals (Iori, Eiji and Billy).

 

Leader

 * Heavy-D! - Leader of Team American Sports. He practices boxing.

Members

 * Lucky Glauber - Member of Team American Sports. He practices basketball (and some Karate).
 * Brian Battler - Member of Team American Sports. He practices American football.

Members' Participation

 * Participation of the members of the team during the mainline series (and some spin-offs).

Trivia

 * In the current days, this team appears only as background cameos in some stages, being the last in The King of Fighters XIII (KOF '95 USA Stage).


 * In The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match, this team have special intros with the Orochi Team (in both versions), the team that stole his KOF invitations in the  '97 tournament.


 * This team appears recently in the CGI animation The King of Fighters: Destiny, being kidnapped and controled by Rugal Bernstein. The CGI is based on the series' prologue.


 * This is the only team of the series with its members restricted to the story arc in which it was released.