When Elijah Arroyo thinks back to playing youth football in Cancun, Mexico, he thinks about the times he, his family, and his team would travel from Cancun to Yucatan, Mexico, which is about a three-and-a-half-hour drive. He remembers traveling all that way to face off against a very good football team, the Tigres, or Tigers, in English.

"They became our rival team because they were the best team in the conference other than us. We'd have to travel over the country."

Although it's how good the team was that sticks with him, it's the playing conditions that he remembers more.

"The field was crazy," Arroyo said. "It wasn't even grass. It was just rocks and dirt. There were stray dogs walking through the field. The parents were picking up broken glass, like beer bottles off the field befor

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