Posted Jan 16, 2018, 3:26 AM
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Beckham’s Miami soccer team has been a dream for years. The reality may be days away.
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David Beckham met with his business partners, Jorge and Jose Mas, and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure, on Thursday and Friday in Kansas City, as the newly assembled group prepares for a late-January official launch of Miami’s long-awaited Major League Soccer team.
The team is scheduled to begin play in the 2020 season, although it may have to play in a temporary site the first season if the Overtown stadium is not completed in time.
In his first public comments since joining the Beckham ownership group in December, Jorge Mas told the Herald on Saturday night: “We had super, super productive meetings in KC. I’m very excited for what we can bring the Miami soccer fan, and we’ll have some big news to announce in Miami in the near future. Being a native, I’m a Miami guy 1,000 percent, and I want to make this a really special team with a really special fan experience.”
Mas wouldn’t say the exact date of the team-launch news conference, but indicated it would be by the end of the month. Two other sources close to negotiations said it would be at the end of January.
The Mas brothers, Miami-based leaders of telecommunications/construction giant MasTec and philanthropists with deep ties to the area, spent Thursday and Friday going over team structure, philosophy, branding and stadium plans with Beckham and Claure. They met with Kansas City-based Populous, a global architectural firm that specializes in the design of sports stadiums and arenas.
The firm, which is designing the Overtown soccer stadium, is responsible for more than 18 Major League Baseball ballparks, including Marlins Park, Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Coors Field in Denver, and Progressive Field in Cleveland. They also have designed NFL and NBA venues, and soccer stadiums all over the world.
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