A teenager fled Cuba in 1960. His grandson, Fernando Mendoza, just became a football icon.
Posted Feb 7, 2026
“My grandfather gives us history lessons all the time,” Alberto Mendoza said in Miami Beach on the Saturday before the national championship game, and near the turn of last decade, with Fernando in 10th grade and Alberto in eighth, their maternal grandparents took them to Cuba, a trip that wound up emblematic of the fates of different generations.
(MSN.com)
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