The now traditional festive tents and the enormous "Welcome Football Team" sign would soon appear on President's Lawn, but already players were appearing one by one in Griff's office.

The first player to arrive on the Huygens Tech Campus was last year's Junior transfer from University College Dublin, Kicker Will O'Arragan. Because Will's boyfriend, a principle in a San Francisco Multimedia Gulch startup, could not spend the entire summer in Dublin, Derry, Waterford, and Cork gay bars, in August outside of Griff's office, there was the familiar sound of a fast car pulling up and parking illegally.

Will emerged from his Uncle Robbie's TMC Costin.

"Hi Coach."

Former Wexford-based Design Engineer, former soccer player with the Republic of Ireland, Huygens Special Teams Coach Robbie O'Arragan was in Rome that summer when on June 30 at the '90 FIFA World Cup Italia quarter finals, Italy beat the Boys in Green. "I think he’s been at one Dublin pub or another ever since then," Will remarked, “But as soon as he hears I'm driving his car, he will return."

Next to arrive on campus was Huygen's Quarterback, River Angelos, bearing the menu from his parents' Greek restaurant in Concord.