Foreign students sound off on Georgia Tech football clinic experience

Published Apr. 27, 2015 3:58 p.m. ET

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Georgia Tech held a football clinic for international students who are far less familiar with the game than their American counterparts who pack Bobby Dodd Stadium on Saturdays in the fall. Head coach Paul Johnson and his Yellow Jackets had the foreign students run many of the same drills that helped Tech finish 11-3 with a win in the Orange Bowl last year.

The students' responses, as reported by Ray Glier of Al Jazeera America, were genuinely awesome.

"Back home, they think it’s boring, and that’s totally wrong," Maximilian Bushe, a German student, told Al Jazeera America. "We don’t know anything about it in Germany. We just see it in the movies—somebody has the ball, and 20 people jump on him and pile up in a big, big tower. Once you get the whole game, it gets really interesting. You watch the game and cheer for your team, and it’s awesome."

All the intricacies of a game as complex as football can't possibly be taught in one clinic, but most students left with at least a rudimentary understanding of what happens on the gridiron.

"You need to be a strong man," Jesus Gomez, a Venezuelan student, told Al Jazeera America. "You need to eat a lot of food because you need to be strong man."

(h/t Al Jazeera America)

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