Drake Callender, Julian Gressel, David Ruiz, DeAndre Yedlin, and the Inter Miami CF U-17 Academy Team are all on the first team. Inter Miami CF and Fracht worked together to hold their first community event of the season on Tuesday at the Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park in Broward County. 

The event was a beach cleanup. First Team players DeAndre Yedlin, Drake Callender, Julian Gressel, and David Ruiz, as well as the U-17 Academy Team, joined Inter Miami CF staff and Fracht Group for the community activity. They helped clean up 205 pounds of trash, which is a small step toward solving the bigger problem of plastic pollution.

Tuesday’s cleanup helped protect the sea life off of South Florida beaches by getting rid of trash made of plastic. This made the world cleaner and healthier. Yedlin, a defender for Inter Miami CF, talked about how important it is to make a good change.

“The space nature gives me makes me think of my childhood,” Callender said. “Bathing on the beach with Fracht helped me connect with a part of myself that I like: being outside. I like the beach.” To give back to the world, help keep our surroundings clean, and be a good example for the kids out here, what else is there?

Inter Miami CF, Fracht Group, and volunteers worked together with Volunteercleanup.org, a local non-profit whose main goal is to get people to clean up their neighborhoods, shorelines, and waterways to raise awareness about marine debris and get people to use less single-use plastics.

Before the cleanup began, Volunteercleanup.org led a teaching session to teach the group how they could help clean up our shorelines. Following the discussion, the workers cleaned up the state park by spreading out to cover as much ground as they could.

The Inter Miami CF players, staff, and Fracht Group worked together to show how important it is to deal with environmental problems right away and how powerful it is to work together. Inter Miami CF and Fracht worked together to clean up the beach, taking away more than 200 pounds of trash. This helped protect sea life and keep the natural beauty of our Florida beaches. 

This beach cleanup is just one of many things Inter Miami CF has done since the club’s founding to bring attention to the dangers of plastic trash in the ocean. It’s another example of how sports can be a powerful tool for real, positive change, and how working together and getting involved in your community can change everything. The Adidas “One Planet” oceans promotion that Inter Miami CF has run for the last three seasons is another initiative and awareness campaign. 

This is also the first of many community projects that Inter Miami CF and Fracht Group will work on together as part of their shared commitment to protecting the earth and oceans.