Despite the conditions of the field, the teams would face off and it was the draw of two good teams playing each other that eventually led to real change.
"I think by my last year, I played there five years in a row, by my last year, it had gotten better, and they had somewhat fixed it up," he said. "We were the ones who brought the attention to that field for them to be able to fix it up."
Arroyo smiles thinking back on the time he spent with his football teammates turned friends. When he was young, he and his family packed up to move from Miami to Cancun, to be with his father who was there selling timeshares.
"I had just started playing football before I moved down there," Arroyo said following the draft earlier this year. "So that was my biggest concern as a seven-year-old moving to a different country. I asked my mom if they had a football team and they said yes, they found me a football team. So, I was cool with it."
Arroyo would go on to learn to basics of football in Mexico, and as a young, impressionable athlete, his sense of who he is as a football player stems from his time in Cancun.
"I feel like those early years is really what built my confidence up as far as being a football player," he said. "Those are the early years of ball, so that's when you figure out who you are as a player, and your strengths and weaknesses. I feel like that's really just where my confidence comes from, just playing [in Mexico]."