On April 2, the Houston Dynamo posted a photo on Instagram from the team’s first-ever match with the caption “April 2, 2006. Where were you?” The first reply came as a bit of a surprise: “Being born at 10:18 pm.”
As it happens, the young man who replied is now a member of the Houston Dynamo Academy. A few hours after the Dynamo burst on the scene with a 5-2 win over the Colorado Rapids, Jacob Grossmann was born in Kauia, Hawaii. At that time, the Grossmann family had no idea how much of a role the Dynamo organization would play in their life, and more specifically their son’s life.