When Shelbourne FC team captain Pearl Slattery picked up her two teammates, Shauna Fox and Izzy Glennon, for the drive to training in North Dublin, she was downright giggly. "I have the craziest news," she said as she drove. "But I can't tell you, I swore I wouldn't tell." A second later: "We have a new player."
Fox and Glennon started guessing Irish names. Slattery said no -- try American. So they rattled off U.S. college players, and Slattery said no, think bigger. "So we start saying the most outrageous names we can think of," Glennon says.