“I don’t think there is that kind of culture — even the fans that used to walk in their country, they’ve gotten used to their cars.” — Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, who says thelack of parking is a major drawback to the site of the proposed stadium for David Beckham group’s MLS team in Overtown, […]
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Beckham Gets Miami Stadium
David Beckham‘s ownership group on Friday confirmed that his team of investors has finally acquired a site for an MLS stadium in Overtown, northwest of downtown Miami. Sources toldthe Miami Herald that Beckham’s group plans to own the real estate and stadium itself, dropping past efforts for a government-owned stadium that would be shielded from […]
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Garber: 'Nothing is going to diminish our excitement'
Running a pro soccer league demands long hours and hard work from the man at the top, and during a media conference call with reporters Thursday, MLS commissioner Don Garber touchedon many aspects of that job as well as the league’s past, present and future. Garber took the post in 1999, the same year as […]
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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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Everton memorial for Kendall is also a tribute to soccer's power
This column is often devoted to discussion of the controversies and scandals that seem to roil the game every day, but today it will instead pay tribute to an iconic figure of a bygone era. At a funeral service in Liverpool on Thursday, the Everton community bade farewell to Howard Kendall, a longtime servant of […]
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What They're Saying: Miami school superintendent Alberto Carvalho
“I can say the concept of a ‘Beckham High’ resonates quite strongly with me.” — Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, on DavidBeckham considering a proposal to build a sports high school at a new soccer stadium in Miami in his quest to bring an MLS team to the Miami. (Reuters)
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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 […]