REDZONE - ifm Razorbacks Football Magazine - No. 1 - english

Gaby: How important is team
chemistry to success?
John: It‘s very important. And it‘s a very
challenging thing here in Ravensburg because
first you have local players. Players
that work full time. Go to school full time,
and then they love playing football, and
so they come out and they. Play football.
Then you have imports, and some of your
imports come from the United States. Some
of your imports come from Sweden, some
come from Australia, some of them come
from France. So, there‘s a lot of different
cultures. And so that‘s, again, putting together
the pieces of the puzzle, the culture.
And trying to understand different players
and why they‘re here and why they play the
game. So, understanding the players who
love playing football. And in the players
who pretend to play football, the people
who just want to put on a uniform. Some of
them are really good football players, and
then some of them just want to wear the
uniform and be a razorback for a day, but
they have to understand that it‘s a commitment.
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For the season and that‘s again, part
of my job is figuring out the pieces of
the puzzle on who. Those guys are and
who those guys are not.
Gaby: Which role do the fans play for you?
John: You know, the fans are huge. Yeah.
The fans are very important to support the
Razorbacks. When you have players and
you have coaches and you have the organization,
like Frank and the board. But the
fans are really who we play for. When Covid
happened, playing a game and not having
any fans there. I couldn‘t imagine what that
would be like. So that‘s the exciting part
of it is fans show up and their knowledge
of football. Hopefully it increases as they
come to our games, and they understand
more and more about American football.
But, yeah, our fans are very important to us.
And I thank all those fans who supported us
over the years. It‘s nice to see people that
I‘ve saw five years ago, six years ago, and
they‘re there and say: Hey, Coach Gilly. It‘s
just nice to see them because they‘ve always.
Been razorback fans.
Gaby: We have a question from the
fans, from Instagram. The question
from sauti40 was: Welcome
back, John. How hard did you
miss the german beer“?
John: You can buy a
little german beer in the
United States. But I like
my german beer. And
every time I would have
a beer in the states, I
would always compare it
to German Beer and it never
measured up.