Beckham alongside his newest investor, Todd Boehly, personally pitched their vision to MLS’ Board of Governors and got the vote of confidence they needed to authorize a league committee to finalize the finer details of their proposal to enter the league in 2020.
Their winding journey towards establishing a Miami team is nearing a successful end, but it has been a journey they won’t forget…
IT ALL STARTED…
… In 2014 when Miami was pencilled as MLS’s 24th team after David Beckham exercised his option to establish an expansion franchise there, but from this point on it became an arduous journey characterised by a disastrous search for a stadium site.