By FRANCO PANIZO
Never really one to be short on confidence, David Beckham is convinced his MLS Miami franchise will come to fruition despite all the recent stadium setbacks.
Beckham stated with conviction on Wednesday that the MLS franchise in Miami that he has been working arduously on will see the light of day. Beckham has yet to find a suitable location for a soccer-specific stadium in the downtown Miami area and has received opposition on two sites he considered earlier this year, but that has not deterred him in his quest to bring MLS back to South Florida.
“Miami will happen,” Beckham told Bloomberg Television’s Mark Crumpton. “I said I want to bring a team here and I will take a team to Miami. There are speed bumps along the way and we’ve come up against those.”
Beckham added that he and his group are continuing to look at potential sites for a stadium.
“I’ve been very cheeky in a way because I’ve gone into Miami and I said, ‘Okay, I want to build Old Trafford or Wembley Stadium next to Buckingham Palace,’” Beckham said. “My dream was to have our stadium on a waterfront. It’s not worked out like that and we have alternative sites. It will happen.”
Beckham was recently encouraged by City of Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff to explore the possibility of building a stadium in an area on Biscayne Bay where the Miami Herald used to operate before moving to a new location last year.
Beckham- who also supported MLS’s decision to not have promotion/relegation, an extremely hot topic in recent weeks, on the broadcast – has said he wants a stadium in downtown Miami that is on or near waterfront property.
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What do you make of Beckham’s confidence to build a stadium in downtown Miami? Like it? Think a deal will be struck by the end of the year?
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Why build a waterfront stadium when in 30 years it will be in water and not in front of it?
He might very well succeed in getting a team there, but you have to question whether a city that apparently has so very little enthusiasm for soccer deserves a team when other cities that so very clearly want one are going to be left out of this expansion cycle.
“I’ve been very cheeky in a way” is one of the strangest things I’ve ever heard out of an English person. Referring to oneself as “cheeky” is pretty out there. I guess if anybody can pull it off….
Man it must be weird to be him. Incredible, but weird. It must be very aggravating for him to try to p*ss somebody off,,, he could punch my 75+ year old mom in the face and simply come off as charming and English, which my dad has been unsuccesffully attempting to do (without the punching) for about 4 decades. He probably calls Jesse Marsch once a week to figure out how he actually made him angry.
well i hope that Biscayne Bay location works out
Agreed!
Trying to figure out what part of Miami would be Buckingham Palace. According to where he wants the stadium I guess the water is…
What a cheeky monkey!
His name is Simon and he does drawerings!