Iere Flowers

The Iere Flowers are a professional Avalonian football team based in the city of Morsan, Andor Metro Iere. They compete in the AGU Avalonian Championship representing Iere. The teams name is a strange twist of irony with flowers usually being interpreted as feminine and use to refer to women in many cultures but by all means the Iere Flowers is a men's team that oozes masculinity. The team takes immense pride in their name and as the famous Illya Vlamost once said " In Iere even men love the beauty and sweet scents of flowers to be a man is to take no shame in that". The team regularly plays exhibition matches against teams from the Iere Archipelago Football League the matches are popular events in Iere and also serve as a way to help develop the competitiveness of Iere's Avalonian Football teams. The team's home stadium shared with the Iere Ocelots is Janas Stadium, Morsan City, Iere.

History
On January 30, 1913 twin Brothers Amer and Umer Janas Ierian businessmen and owners of the Janas Copper Company started recruiting young men from across Iere in hopes of creating a team capable of championing Avalonian Football in Iere and beat even the champions of (founding country of Avalonian Football). The team started had at the time started training on the Janas family estates in on what was then the outskirts of Morsan under tutelage of the brothers who had learnt the sport while abroad and trainers who were brought in from (founding country of Avalonian Football). The team had went by the name of the Shakudo Guards for the first year of its creation until its first match against (a team from the founding country of Avalonian Football) who the Janas brothers had invited to Iere. It is said the brothers had gotten the inspiration to call the team the Iere Flowers after a faithful encounter with a florist at the Andor flower market. Umer had stop to smell a brightly red flower that had a sweet honey scent that the florist had placed on exhibition Amer had stopped to keep a eye on him, the florist noticing his fascination with the flower had commented "isn't it beautiful people wouldn't realize that beneath it beauty and sweet scent that this flower when flower when eaten can kill grown man in five minutes a flower's appearance can hide many secrets". Those words gave the brother the inspiration for the team's name for it wouldn't strike fear into their competition but like flowers the opponents would underestimate their power and the men of the team are in many ways like flowers they may appear one way on the surface but beneath their skin lies many passions and unknown power. The team had went on to win their first exhibition match however the only won two out of the five exhibition matches against the (a team from the founding country of Avalonian Football) for their face off against a professional team this was by no means a easy feat and was seen a great source of pride.

The Flowers struggled for most of their first years against pro Avalonian Football teams, and they never had a home stadium until 1933 when the Old Janas Stadium was constructed. The construction of the Stadium also coincided with the rise of Avalonian Football in Iere with many local teams popping up across the Archipelago and the establishment of the Iere Avalonian Football League. The team had went on to dominate the league for 10 years straight before losing to the Zair Titans in a crushing defeat. The team had went on to lose the championship for four years straight before making a spectacular comeback in 1939. The team reaching new heights and setting new records in Iere at the time.

Since then, then Flowers have sold out every preseason, regular season, and playoff home game. On March 6, 1987 the Iere Flowers became the official national sports team to represent Iere in Regional and International Avalonian Football competitions following the passing away of the last living Janas twin Amer, Umer passing away a year earlier ownership of the team was passed on to their son Juler Janas who continues to lead the team to success. The Ierian goverment had secured a 30% stake in the team at the time to further legitimize the team becoming the National Team of Iere.

By 2013, the value of the team had increased by over $1 billion, to a Goldess magazine estimated value of $1.361 billion. The highest in Iere and XX highest in the world. As of July 2018, the Patriots are the XX most valuable sports franchise in the world according to Goldess magazine with a value of $2.7 billion.

Culture
The Iere Flowers professional cheerleading squad is Florist Cheerleaders which represents the team in sporting. Notable alumni of the cheerleading squad include tennis player Sevara Mojij husband of Quarterback Henry Mojij, rapper Laurel Lee and model Myomo Jeite.

The Flowers' mascot is little Red, a flower fairy based on the flower that inspired the name of the team

The Flowers are also a cultural icon in Iere with the team driving the development of Avalonian Football in Iere with many little children wanting to be a Flower or a Ocelot their sister team.

Zuko Biechang's "Flower speak of pretty things and poison" has become an official theme song and entrance anthem for the Flowers at their games, starting when Iere hosted the XXXX tournament in XXXX.

The Iere Flowers also fund many aid and humanitarian programmes in Iere and abroad with the Sacred Order Organization, the Arbenzan Development Fund and Lusjki Rejuvenation fund being the three biggest beneficiaries.

One of Iere's bullet trains is named after the teams founders and fathers of Ierian Avalonian Football is called the Janas.

Stadium
Since 1933, the Iere Flowers' home stadium has been the Janas Stadium, the old Janas stadium was financed privately by Janas Copper Industry with the stadium being torn down after decades of renovations and new one erected in its place in 2007 by a $412 million facility co-financed by Janus Copper Industry and the Government of Iere, located in Morsan, Andor. It houses all administrative offices for the team as well as its sister team the Ierian Ocelots. The field, which was originally natural grass, was replaced with a FieldTurf surface during the 2008 season. The area around the stadium was developed, beginning in 2007, into a $675 million "lifestyle and entertainment center" called the Garden among its largest structures is a multi-floor eco-friendly restaurant and bar called the Greenhouse it the development also included hundreds of affordable housing for low income and middle income households.

Aircraft
In 2019 the Flowers purchased a Boeing 767-300ER for use as a team plane. This made them the first team in Iere's Football history to own their own plane and one of the few international teams to own one. At the time it was getting more difficult for professional sports teams to book private charter flights, even though Iere enjoys a position as a major aviation hub as major commercial airlines were instead focusing on more profitable scheduled flights.