Jorge Mas

Thank you, Mr. Thank you very much, Mr. President.

TO ALL THESE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS, SECRETARIES, SO MANY FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS.

ON BEHALF OF MYSELF, MY WIFE ALEDA, MY BROTHER JOSE AND HIS WIFE PATTY AND MY WHOLE FAMILY WHO IS HERE TODAY, DAVID BECKHAM, I WANT TO EXPRESS TO YOU WHAT AN EXTREME HONOR

privilege it is to be in the people's house led by you celebrating in the presence of champions winners all because this championship was very very well deserved greatly played and you're looking at one of the best teams on the face of the earth standing standing behind us and this all became possible because we dared to dream

Seven years ago, Inter-Miami was nothing but an idea and a dream.

I remember after talking to Commissioner Garber and being awarded a team, we sat in the conference room of our family business in Miami and said to each other, what do we do now?

And as the son of a man and woman who left Cuba just seeking freedom in this great country, it has driven us to excellence.

And we thought, what can we do to make a difference?

What can we do that's special?

And at that time, I told myself what many people thought impossible.

I said, we are going to bring the world's greatest player to play at Inter Miami.

And that was in 2019.

And today, standing before you, you have the world's greatest player here to my right.

Over the course of the last two and a half years that he has been here, we've been on an epic run of records, of trophies, of winning.

Because what I've wanted to establish with Inter-Miami is a winning culture.

That it be a reflection of our community, of South Florida and Miami, made up of winners, of hardworking men and women, and I want our team to be an embodiment of our fan base and everyone who aspires to a better future and to a better life.

On the back of our jersey, Mr. President, it says, Freedom to Dream, because that's our family moniker and what embodies our team and our aspirations.

But that all began many, many years before at the dinner table of our family with my late father, Jorge Mascanosa, and my mother, Irma, who is here today.

And I speak now in tribute to our parents' generation.

And I share that with Secretary Marco Rubio of men and women who fled communism, who fled tyranny, who wanted a better life for their boys and their daughters and their sons in the future.