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Football helped Texans' Ufomba Kamalu acclimate to America as a teenager

HOUSTON -- The sentiment would coax a smile from Houston Texans coach Bill O'Brien.

Ufomba Kamalu came to love football because of teamwork.

He started playing in high school at his father's suggestion. Kamalu was born in America but spent most of the first 13 years of his life in Aba, Nigeria, a city with a population of more than 2 million. He and his three siblings spent most of their childhood there, while his parents, Stella and Ngozi Kamalu, stayed in America.

He returned to America for high school. The culture was different.