REDZONE - ifm Razorbacks Football Magazine - No. 1 - english
REDZONE Stadium Magazine of the ifm Razorbacks. Everything about the American football season of the first division of the Erima GFL. Interviews, under the helmet, rules of the game, tables, statistics and facts, interesting facts, flag football and much more.
REDZONE Stadium Magazine of the ifm Razorbacks. Everything about the American football season of the first division of the Erima GFL. Interviews, under the helmet, rules of the game, tables, statistics and facts, interesting facts, flag football and much more.
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Gaby: How important is team<br />
chemistry to success?<br />
John: It‘s very important. And it‘s a very<br />
challenging thing here in Ravensburg because<br />
first you have local players. Players<br />
that work full time. Go to school full time,<br />
and then they love playing football, and<br />
so they come out and they. Play football.<br />
Then you have imports, and some of your<br />
imports come from the United States. Some<br />
of your imports come from Sweden, some<br />
come from Australia, some of them come<br />
from France. So, there‘s a lot of different<br />
cultures. And so that‘s, again, putting together<br />
the pieces of the puzzle, the culture.<br />
And trying to understand different players<br />
and why they‘re here and why they play the<br />
game. So, understanding the players who<br />
love playing football. And in the players<br />
who pretend to play football, the people<br />
who just want to put on a uniform. Some of<br />
them are really good football players, and<br />
then some of them just want to wear the<br />
uniform and be a razorback for a day, but<br />
they have to understand that it‘s a commitment.<br />
17<br />
For the season and that‘s again, part<br />
of my job is figuring out the pieces of<br />
the puzzle on who. Those guys are and<br />
who those guys are not.<br />
Gaby: Which role do the fans play for you?<br />
John: You know, the fans are huge. Yeah.<br />
The fans are very important to support the<br />
<strong>Razorbacks</strong>. When you have players and<br />
you have coaches and you have the organization,<br />
like Frank and the board. But the<br />
fans are really who we play for. When Covid<br />
happened, playing a game and not having<br />
any fans there. I couldn‘t imagine what that<br />
would be like. So that‘s the exciting part<br />
of it is fans show up and their knowledge<br />
of football. Hopefully it increases as they<br />
come to our games, and they understand<br />
more and more about American football.<br />
But, yeah, our fans are very important to us.<br />
And I thank all those fans who supported us<br />
over the years. It‘s nice to see people that<br />
I‘ve saw five years ago, six years ago, and<br />
they‘re there and say: Hey, Coach Gilly. It‘s<br />
just nice to see them because they‘ve always.<br />
Been razorback fans.<br />
Gaby: We have a question from the<br />
fans, from Instagram. The question<br />
from sauti40 was: Welcome<br />
back, John. How hard did you<br />
miss the german beer“?<br />
John: You can buy a<br />
little german beer in the<br />
United States. But I like<br />
my german beer. And<br />
every time I would have<br />
a beer in the states, I<br />
would always compare it<br />
to German Beer and it never<br />
measured up.