FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The expansion Major League Soccer team owned in part by David Beckham plans to start signing players this summer and will select its first coach later this year. Inter Miami, which says it will begin play in March 2020 and that an 18,000-seat stadium in Fort Lauderdale will be ready by then, has narrowed its coaching search to three finalists. Managing owner Jorge Mas declined to reveal names, and only suggested the hire would be done by September or October. Beckham was not present Wednesday for what was billed as a demolition ceremony on the site of Lockhart Stadium, where Miami’s first MLS team played from 1998 through 2001. Lockhart will be demolished later, and Mas said parts of the stadium that will be put in its place are already being built off-site.

Source: National Post May 08, 2019 17:03 UTC