Miami Beckham United working on putting an MLS team in Miami brought together its ownership group, headed by David Beckham, for meetings on Thursday and Friday in Kansas City. TheMiami Herald reported that Beckham was joined by new partners, Miami businessmen Jorge and Jose Mas, andSprint CEO Marcelo Claure. First owner meeting. #MiamiMLS pic.twitter.com/GodsSoyPfv — […]
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Miami's MLS bid gets good news, expansion candidates wait
While four cities seeking two MLS expansion spots awaited the decision of the league’s board of governors, the MLS Miami effort received good news when the board at its meeting on Thursday in New Yorkapproved new owners for Miami Beckham United: — Jorge Mas, co-founder and chairman of MasTec; — Jose Mas, CEO of MasTec; […]
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Report: Mas futbol for Miami Beckham United
The on-again, off-again bid by David Beckham to launch an MLS team in Miami took another turn as the Miami Herald reportedthat Beckham might have found a local owner the group needs for MLS to go forward with the team. Garber cautioned work still needed to be done but he was confident about announcing MLS […]
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Doubts raised about Beckham's Miami MLS bid
It was only hours before the MLS All-Star Game in Chicago on Aug. 2 when MLS commissioner Don Garber updated the media on David Beckham‘s presentation to the Board of Governors on hisgroup’s plans for a team in Miami. Garber said the board ofgovernors was impressed with the work investor Todd Boehly and Beckham had […]
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Tom Mulroy: 'There's so many people on the wrong page'
Former professional player Tom Mulroy has worn many hats since retiring as a player and touring the country juggling as “Soccer Tom.” He grew up in Spring Valley, N.Y.,and as a youth played for the famous Blau-Weiss Gottschee club in Queens and then at Ulster Community College, where twice he was named a NJCAA All-American. He was […]
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Beckham: Board gives green light to get Miami deal done
MLS commissioner Don Garber admitted he wasn’t certain it would get past Wednesday, but he said the MLS board of governors authorized him to work with an MLS expansion committee of owners andleague executives to finalize the deal for Miami Beckham United to join MLS as its 24th team. There had been reports of concerns […]
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Beckham-Miami deal: 'We're not there yet'
Will MLS pull the trigger and approve David Beckham‘s long-delayed bid to bring the league’s 24th team to Miami? It could happen as soon as Wednesday at the MLS board of governors meeting inChicago. But MLS commissioner Don Garber cautioned that work on the project still needs to be done. The three pieces to the […]
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What They're Saying: Bruce Matheson
“Twenty-five thousand people entering that neighborhood will wreak havoc with noise, traffic, and pedestrian congestion, because it’s not only a proposed soccer stadium, it’s a proposedconcert stadium.” — Bruce Matheson, the heir to one of Miami’s richest and oldest families, who filed a lawsuit to try to kill David Beckham‘s land deal needed to build […]
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MLS: Beckham finally secures Miami land deal
A home, finally, for David Beckham‘s soccer stadium moved a lot closer to reality when the Miami Beckham United received approval, by a 9-4 vote of Miami-Dade County commissioners, to buythe third parcel of land it needs to build a 25,000-seat stadium in the Overtown neighborhood of the city. The agreement would be a no-bid […]
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NWSL: Waldrum is out as Houston head coach
Randy Waldrum, who left his job as head coach at Notre Dame, one of the most successful women’s programs in the country, to take over as the Houston Dash head coach for its launch in 2014, isout. The Dash and Waldrum agreed to part ways just seven games into the 2017 season. Assistant coach Omar […]