Miami Beckham United, the group formed by David Beckham to set up shop for his MLS team in South Florida, is in talks with Qatar Sports Investment, owner of Paris St. Germain, among many groupsinterested in partnering with Beckham, BBC Sport reported. Beckham played for PSG in 2013 at the end of his career, afterfinishing […]
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What They're Saying: David Beckham
“If Ibrahimovic is still active, then I want to buy him right away. He is a physically magnificent specimen, so it’s entirely possible. Who does not want a man who is prepared to kill towin?” — David Beckham, admitting he would love the chance to sign Paris St. Germain’s Swedish star, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, to his proposed […]
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Report: Miami Beckham United moves on to fourth option
David Beckham‘s group seeking a home for an MLS club has its maps of Miami out again. Miami’s NBC 6 reported that sources close to the Miami MLS deal told it that Miami BeckhamUnited is giving up on plans to build a proposed stadium near Marlins Park in Little Havana. Instead, it is looking elsewhere […]
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Sacramento wants to show it's ready to roll
While efforts by David Beckham‘s group to find land for a soccer stadium in Miami appear to have hit another hit roadblock, Sacramento’s MLS bid got a boost as preliminary plans for a stadiumin the California capital’s downtown rail yards were released ahead of Tuesday’s vote by city council on a term sheet outlining the […]
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What They're Saying: Tim Leiweke
“I think we have found a site. It’s probably different than what people think we’re doing, but we’re going to know in the next several days.” — MiamiBeckham United partner Tim Leiweke, telling CNBC the group was looking for a new site for its MLS stadium after a Miami-Dade school board vote to approve apartnership […]
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Leiweke: Miami stadium deal 'probably will blow' up
Tim Leiweke, brought in as Miami Beckham United’s point man to salvage stadium negotiations in Miami, told the Miami Herald Editorial Board on Thursday thatplans to build a new soccer stadium in Miami could fall apart because of land owners asking for unreasonable prices for strips of land needed to complete the stadium footprint.
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Reports tie Leiweke to Beckham and Miami
The Miami Herald reported Tuesday that David Beckham is lining up veteran sports executive Tim Leiweke to jointhe effort to place an MLS expansion team in Miami. As CEO and president of Anschutz Entertainment Group, operator-investor of the LA Galaxy, Leiweke spearheaded the signing of Beckham to anMLS contract in January, 2007, as the league’s […]
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Beckham: Miami MLS is 'Getting Closer'
David Beckham is hopeful of making progress in the next two months in his bid to establish an MLS franchise in Miami. Beckham, who has three months to exercise his option to purchase an MLSfranchise at the discounted rate of $25 million, has struggled to find a stadium location. However, Miami mayor Tomas Regalado said […]
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Beckham and the Ghost of Marlins Park
As it turns out, David Beckham may yet get his MLS stadium near the water — although the Miami River might not be exactly what the former Los Angeles Galaxy star had in mind. Nevertheless, some 18 months after Beckham announced his intention to bring professional soccer back to Miami, the former England captain and […]
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Galaxy breaks new ground with Dos Santos signing
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) For the LA Galaxy, apparently, being the best is not enough. Three titles in the past four seasons anoints it as top dog of the current generation and in Year 1 P.L. (post-Landon), it has broken new ground thanks to a recently adopted MLS player mechanism:Targeted Allocation Money. It is the […]