I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: It must be really nice to be someone considered a major local business owner — of a sports team, an electric car company, whatever — and get guaranteed news coverage just by issuing a press statement or even just tweeting. And so we get articles like this one in the Miami Herald:
Beckham group announces date to reveal plans for MLS stadium on Miami golf course
That’s right: David Beckham’s MLS ownership group announced that it’s going to announce that it has plans for building a stadium on a site that Beckham’s group has been publicly considering since back in March. And it will do so at the July 12 Miami commission meeting, according to Beckham co-owner Jorge Mas’s tweets, maybe:
Big news & reveal coming soon with what will be a transformational world class park, soccer village & tech hub for #OurMiami. A global symbol of the cultural mosaic that is our great city. #ThisisMiami #FútbolMiamiMLS
— Jorge Mas (@Jorge__Mas) June 27, 2018
Hola mi amiga… el día 12 revelamos… te va a encantar… hablemos unos días antes… un fuerte abrazo
— Jorge Mas (@Jorge__Mas) June 27, 2018
So all we really know for sure is that the Beckham group will reveal something on July 12. And that Mas wants to hug Sandra Peebles.
But that was Tuesday night’s news! Yesterday, the Herald broke the story that Mas said that an announcement of the team name and uniform colors was “imminent”:
“We are just going through final vetting and trademark issues, and all those announcements are imminent,” he said by phone Wednesday.
Among the names being considered are Futbol Club Internacional de Miami (Inter Miami) and Futbol Club Atletico Miami (Atletico Miami), both of which would make sense with the city’s international flair and Hispanic influence. The ownership group also registered variations of the name Miami Freedom, but it is more likely one of the traditional soccer names will be chosen.
Team Beckham is rapidly becoming the sporting equivalent of Seinfeld. That is, the team about nothing.
So, the takeaway here is if the scammers (owners) indicate an intention of making it more than a stadium (i.e. teach hub, subsidized housing, coastal educational nature thicket, Saturday morning organic market, manatee safety zone, sand dollar sanctuary, solar farm), then obtaining tax dollars will be a given. Go team.
Hey soccer people, it really is okay to choose a team name that isn’t a goofy take-off on a Big Time Euro Soccer Power. Seriously. (We’re still waiting to hear what royal house provided the warrant for the team in Salt Lake City.)
I’m waiting for Borussia San Diego.
FC Bayern Minneapolis
FC Spartak Spartanburg
Nah, the fans got it right with The San Diego Bad Hombres.
instead of Minnesota United, it should have been Minneapolis
and St. Paul United.
Why not “2 Corinthians”?
I mean, sure, there’s more than two already… but you can’t deny this name has a place in the rich tapestry of, um….
Since we can have the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (and almost of Tustin too), why don’t they just call themselves FC Barcelona of Miami. Might have to replace the c in Barca with an F just for copyright reasons…
Or, you know, to get another of those fake local rivalries MLS loves to fail to create, why not Atalanta of Miami?
Pretty sure that the real reason for the delays is that they’ve been unable to find a site that projections show won’t be more suited to professional water polo than football before the stadium’s 10th birthday.
Can you even sell naming rights to a water polo stadium?
Portland Timbers,Seattle Sounders,Vancouver WhiteCaps,San Jose Earthquakes, Montreal Impact seem to work fine. What happened to the New York Cosmos, Dallas Tornado, Minnesota Kicks, Washington Diplomats, Chicago Sting,Toronto Blizzard, and best of all Tampa Bay Rowdies?