"We sat down at our first meeting and he said, 'How do you want to play, and what do you want it to look like?' " said head coach Jim Curtin, the former Villanova star whose own professional career in MLS started at the academy level. "And I said, 'Well, we have this central midfielder who has this good quality and this bad one, so we hide it by doing this and this.' And he said, 'No. How do you want to play? And we'll sort out the rest.' His vision is not just to win today but five years down the road."