A major part of the Houston Dynamo and Dash community engagement initiative involves getting players out to visit local schools and interacting with students, but with the coronavirus outbreak causing schools to close, those were assumed to be put on hold for the foreseeable future. However, the Club’s community relations department got creative and on Friday, April 3, Dynamo midfielder Memo Rodriguez participated in the first-ever virtual school visit in Club history.
Joined on Zoom by faculty of the K12 Texas online education program and its third grade students from Houston, Dallas, and even the San Antonio area, Rodriguez fielded questions on a variety of topics that included his study habits in school, his journey to professional soccer, his favorite and least favorite school subjects, how much time he spends training, and even what his pregame routine entails.