Inter Miami co-owner David Beckham spoke of a dream come true as his group performed its first ever sport at Nu Stadium on Saturday — a 2-2 draw with Austin FC.
The Englishman, who helped to discovered the membership in 2018 after six years with LA Galaxy and one other six getting Miami up and operating, has overseen the aspect’s meteoric rise to MLS champions and the house of Lionel Messi.
“Once I got here to America and the MLS 20 years in the past, my dream was to win championships, assist elevate the sport of soccer that I like a lot and to construct my very own group,” Beckham stated forward of the draw towards Austin.
“13 years in the past, I introduced Miami was my alternative. We had no title. We had no followers. We had no stadium. At this time, I stand in our new dwelling.
“We’re champions of the MLS. We now have the most effective participant within the historical past of the sport taking part in in Miami. Desires actually can come true.”
With the membership having made its MLS debut in 2020, Miami has change into dwelling to a few of LaLiga’s greatest stars of the final 15 years — Gonzalo Higuaín, Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba, Luis Suárez and Messi have all performed for Beckham’s group, the place Javier Mascherano has been the top coach since Nov. 2024.
Following Messi’s arrival in 2023, Miami gained the Supporters’ Defend in 2024 and claimed their first MLS title in 2025, with the Argentine successful the league’s MVP award in each seasons.
Up till now, although, the group has needed to play their dwelling video games in Fort Lauderdale, about 25 miles north of Miami.
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Messi and Beckham had been removed from the one celebrities concerned with Saturday’s sport. Actor Matthew McConaughey, who’s a part of Austin FC’s possession group, even wrote an open letter to Beckham to congratulate him on his practically two-decade relationship with the league.
“As Austin visits Miami in the present day for somewhat shindig in your new pitch, I need to first shout out a honest ‘thanks’ — you did not create soccer over right here within the US, however you rattling positive supercharged it,” the actor wrote.
“Once you got here to the Galaxy you gave MLS recent legitimacy, you turned video games into occasions, and primarily modified MLS from a proving floor to a premier vacation spot. THANK YOU.”
Info from ESPN’s Lizzy Becherano and The Related Press was used on this report.
