The Academy trains and plays its home matches at the Inter Miami CF Training Center, the same facility that serves as home to both the First Team and the USL League One side, allowing the Club's youth players to grow in the same state-of-the-art complex as its professionals.

“The environment Inter Miami has created has been really great for me to grow as both a person and a player,” he added. “Everyone helps a lot and has created a very good environment for me to grow.”

Valencia is especially grateful for the work of his coaches in the Inter Miami CF Academy system as well as with Fort Lauderdale CF, as he believes they have helped shape him into the player and person he is now.

“I think the coaches are the most important for my development, along with the facilities, the fields, the gym, everything, but I especially want to thank my coaches for helping build me into a good player. They’ve helped me be better both on and off the field.”

Valencia also shared his enthusiasm for the possibilities that lie ahead in his young career with Inter Miami, but he refused to get ahead of himself.

“I’m very excited about the possibilities this upcoming year and the next few years, but I think I have to focus more on working hard and being ready.”

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