Welcome to Pitbull Stadium, the home of your FIU Panthers.
Florida International revealed what might end up as a 10-year arrangement on Tuesday with worldwide recording artist, Grammy winner and businessowner Armando Christian Pérez — the Miami native muchbetter understood as Pitbull — to put his name on their on-campus arena.
Pérez will pay $1.2 million everyyear for the next 5 years, the university stated, for the calling rights. He will have an choice in August 2029 to extend the offer for another 5 years and continue the rebranding.
“Yes, we’re going to develop history in Pitbull Stadium,” Pérez stated throughout a news conference in Miami. “This isn’t simply an statement. This is a motion. This is really history in the making.”
FIU stated it is the veryfirst arrangement where an artist has the calling rights to a arena. Pérez will likewise be included with FIU’s efforts in the name, image and similarity area, athletic director Scott Carr stated.
“This is a historical day for FIU sports to distinctively partner with a world-renowned artist and remarkable individual who really values relationships and his neighborhood,” Carr stated. “Armando’s monetary assistance is program-changing, however him supplying a microphone to enhance FIU will be even more advantageous to growing our brandname.”
As part of the offer, Pérez gets usage of the arena for 10 days each year rent-free, with some tickets to those occasions to be set aside for FIU trainees. A vodka brandname he owns will be a chosen brandname at the arena going forward, he will get utilize of 2 suites and 20 VIP parking passes for FIU football home videogames, and he’s being asked to produce an “FIU Anthem” to be played at the school’s athletic contests.
“It’s a real trueblessing, a real honor,” Pérez stated. “Let’s make history.”
Pitbull — who likewise goes by “Mr. 305,” a nod to Miami’s location code — kicked off his music profession in the South Florida rap scene around 2004, ultimately endingupbeing one of the world’s most acknowledged artists.
“Pitbull’s profession trajectory mirrors FIU’s climb as one of the country’s top public researchstudy universities,” FIU Plocal Kenneth A. Jessell stated. “Like FIU, he began out extremely 305 and endedupbeing worldwide.”
Pérez hasactually been a longtime supporter of supporting education in South Florida. FIU stated he established the veryfirst SLAM! (Sports Leadership, Arts, and Management) tuition-free public charter school in Miami in 2012.
“This is about unifying everyone,” he stated. “This is about bringing everyone together. … Hard work is what pays off. They inform me, ‘You so fortunate.’ Well, the moredifficult I work, the luckier I get.”
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