The baseball player selected to be Team USA’s flag bearer was captured in an emotional video tearfully explaining how the honor means “everything” to him, …
The baseball player selected to be Team USA’s flag bearer was captured in an emotional video tearfully explaining how the honor means “everything” to him, and said in a statement that his “story represents the American Dream.” Eddy Alvarez, a 31-year-old, first-generation Cuban American, is a shortstop for the Miami Marlins minor league system and was the first baseball player to hold the American flag when he led Team USA into Friday’s Olympics opening ceremony in Tokyo. “I owe so much to my parents, to my family,” Alvarez tearfully said in a video posted by Team USA when he was asked about how he felt about being the flag bearer. “It means,” the player paused as he gathered his composure, “everything to me.
