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Inter Miami CF is an American professional soccer club based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The club was approved for MLS expansion in 2018 and began playing in 2020. They have signed several high-profile players like Blaise Matuidi, Gonzalo Higuaín, and Lionel Messi. The club garnered attention due to owner David Beckham and winning their first trophy after signing Messi in 2023.

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Inter Miami

Inter Miami CF is an American professional soccer club based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The club was approved for MLS expansion in 2018 and began playing in 2020. They have signed several high-profile players like Blaise Matuidi, Gonzalo Higuaín, and Lionel Messi. The club garnered attention due to owner David Beckham and winning their first trophy after signing Messi in 2023.

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Inter miami

Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami (lit. International Miami Football Club), better known as Inter
Miami CF or simply Inter Miami (Spanish: Inter de Miami), is an American professional soccer club
based out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the Miami metropolitan area.

On January 29, 2018, Major League Soccer (MLS) officially approved David Beckham's expansion
team in Miami.[2][3] Since they began playing in the Eastern Conference in the 2020 season, the
club has signed several high-profile players such as Blaise Matuidi, Gonzalo Higuaín, Sergio Busquets,
Jordi Alba, Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez.

The club garnered international attention prior to their founding because of club president and co-
owner Beckham, and again in 2023 with the aforementioned signing of Messi on a free transfer.
Following the signing, the club won their first major trophy, the expanded 2023 Leagues Cup, the
North American competitions for the CONCACAF region, which also qualified the team to the 2024
CONCACAF Champions Cup for the first time. The team's Forbes estimated value is $1.03 billion as of
2024, ranking second in the league behind Los Angeles FC.[4]

History

Expansion

In November 2012, MLS commissioner Don Garber confirmed the league's renewed interest in
placing an expansion franchise in Miami,[5] after the Miami Fusion folded following the 2001 season.
[6] A Miami expansion team led by FC Barcelona and Marcelo Claure, a Bolivian businessman based
in the city, announced an expansion bid in October 2008, with plans to begin play in 2011.[7] In
March 2009, the league and Barcelona announced that Miami was no longer a candidate due to local
market conditions.[8] Additionally, MLS expressed concerns about Miami's lack of fan interest in an
MLS franchise, the fact that USL team Miami FC was not doing well,[according to whom?] and the
plan to use FIU Stadium relegating the team to a secondary tenant in a college football stadium with
an artificial surface.[9][10] However, Garber said that Miami would be an expansion target in the
future.[11] Claure later joined David Beckham's group of investors for the Miami expansion bid that
was accepted by the league in 2014.[12]

When David Beckham, whose business manager Simon Fuller had the idea[13] of giving him an
option to purchase an expansion team at a price of $25 million when he joined the league in 2007,
[14] ended his playing career in April 2013, the MLS held discussions with Fuller about several
expansion targets, including Miami.[15] That same year, other investors, including Italian financier
Alessandro Butini[16] and Miami Dolphins owner Stephen M. Ross expressed interest in owning a
Miami franchise as well.[17] In 2013, Fuller and Beckham discussed plans to buy an MLS soccer team
in Miami [18]

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