On December 30, 2019, former Uruguay national team player and C.F. Ĭlub Internacional de Fútbol Miami, or Inter Miami CF for short, was announced as the club's name on September 5, 2018. Some graphics used by the group have evoked the Freedom Tower, a city landmark. The team's ownership now operates through Miami Freedom Park LLC. Īrgentine Gonzalo Higuaín signed with Miami in 2020 Paul McDonough was hired as sporting director effective August 4. Since Beckham's original announcement of his intention to place a team in Miami in 2014, Orlando City, New York City FC, Atlanta United, Minnesota United, Los Angeles FC, and FC Cincinnati have all begun MLS play. The announcement represented part of a larger MLS expansion that would increase its number of teams to 26 by 2020 and 30 after that. On January 29, 2018, the Miami Beckham United group, four years after the ownership's original announcement of pursuing a team, was awarded the twenty-fifth MLS franchise and was set to launch in the 2020 season. After its initial stadium proposals fell through, Commissioner Garber reiterated in August 2014 that the expansion would not be approved until a downtown stadium plan was secured. In presentations to officials and potential investors, the ownership group used "Miami Vice" and "Miami Current" as working titles for the club. The league announced that Beckham exercised his option on February 5, 2014, and that Miami Beckham United, the investment group led by Beckham, Fuller and Claure, would own an expansion franchise in Miami, assuming that financing for a stadium could be agreed upon. Giménez to negotiate with the Beckham-led group on a new stadium in downtown Miami. Later that month, on December 17, Miami-Dade County commissioners voted unanimously to allow Mayor Carlos A. In his December 2013 State of the League address, Garber identified Beckham and Simon Fuller as potential owners in Miami. Ross expressed interest in owning a Miami franchise as well. That same year, other investors, including Italian financier Alessandro Butini and Miami Dolphins owner Stephen M. When David Beckham, who had received an option to purchase an expansion team at a price of $25 million when he joined the league in 2007, ended his playing career in April 2013, the league held preliminary discussions with Beckham's advisers about several expansion targets, including Miami. In November 2012, MLS commissioner Don Garber confirmed the league's renewed interest in placing an expansion franchise in Miami, after the Miami Fusion folded following the 2001 season and an expansion bid led by Miami-based Bolivian telecom entrepreneur Marcelo Claure and FC Barcelona failed in 2009.
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