Inter Miami

Inter Miami
Football company
Surname	Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami
Seat	Miami , Florida , USA
founding	29th January 2018
Colours	black, white, pink
owner	David Beckham Marcelo Claure Jorge Mas Jose Mas Masayoshi Son
CEO	Jorge Mas
Website	intermiamicf.com
First team
Head coach	Diego Alonso
Venue	Inter Miami Stadium , Fort Lauderdale
Places	18,000
league	Major League Soccer
2020	first season
home Away

The Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami shortly Inter Miami CF or usually only Inter Miami is a franchise of professional football - League Major League Soccer (MLS) from Miami in the US state of Florida , which since the season 2020 participates in the game operation. The franchise is owned by a group of investors led by former England international David Beckham .

history

Season dates

season	Eastern Conference	Overall table	Play-offs	Lamar Hunt US Open Cup
2020	/ 13	/ 26

The group of owners initially consisted of David Beckham , his business partner Simon Fuller and Marcelo Claure . In December 2017 the brothers Jorge and Jose Mas and the Japanese entrepreneur Masayoshi Son joined the group. On January 29, 2018, Major League Soccer awarded the group the contract for the league's 25th franchise , which started MLS gaming in the 2020 season . Inter Miami becomes the fourth MLS franchise from Florida after Miami Fusion and Tampa Bay Mutiny , both of which were dissolved in 2001, and Orlando City .

On September 5, 2018, it was announced that the franchise would bear the Spanish name Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami , or Inter Miami for short . The name is intended to honor Miami's status as a cosmopolitan city that “embraces all cultures and communities” and “internationality, diversity, creativity and spirit” of the city. The colors used in the logo are black, white and pink.

Diego Alonso was signed as the first head coach in franchise history . The first competitive game took place as part of the 1st MLS game day on March 1, 2020 at Banc of California Stadium and was lost 1-0 at Los Angeles FC . Rodolfo Pizarro scored the first goal in franchise history on Matchday 2 in a 2-1 loss to DC United . The season was then interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Game operations resumed in early July with ghost games at the MLS is back tournament at Champion Stadium , part of the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando , Florida . There Inter Miami lost all 3 group games and dropped out after the group stage. The results from the group stage were included in the tables of the conferences and the overall table. With 5 losses in the first 5 games, Inter Miami became the worst MLS newcomer to date. Before the resumption of regular play in August, the 2018 world champion Blaise Matuidi was signed . Thereupon succeeded on the 3rd regular match day with a 3-2 against Orlando City the first competitive game win in the franchise history.

owner

Co-owner David Beckham (2014)

The group of owners operates as the MLS franchisee under the name Miami Freedom Park LLC. It includes former England international David Beckham ; British music and television producer Simon Fuller ; Marcelo Claure, a Bolivian -US businessman and chairman of Sprint Corporation ; the brothers Jorge and Jose Mas, owners of the MasTec construction company ; and Masayoshi Son, CEO of Japanese telecommunications and media company SoftBank . Fuller left the organization in spring 2019.

Stadion

→ Main article : Inter Miami Stadium

Inter Miami will play their home games for the 2020 and 2021 seasons at the Inter Miami Stadium (18,000 seats) in Fort Lauderdale before the team will move to a new 25,000-seat stadium, Miami Freedom Park , in Miami for the 2022 season .

For this, the Lockhart Stadium was demolished and rebuilt in the same place next to a new training complex for the professional team and the academy. After the two years, the Inter Miami Stadium will be used exclusively as a venue for the Fort Lauderdale CF farm team , who will use the stadium in parallel until then.

staff

Current squad

As of December 4, 2019

No. position Surname TW Drake Callender TW Bryan Meredith TW Luis Robles FROM Mikey Ambrose FROM AJ DeLaGarza FROM Grant Lillard FROM Christian Makoun FROM Alvas Powell FROM Ben Sweat

No. position Surname MF George Acosta MF Luis Argudo MF Jay Chapman MF Lee Nguyen MF David Norman Jr. MF Matías Pellegrini ( DP ) MF Victor Ulloa ST Julián Carranza ST Jerome Kiesewetter

Coach history

• Since 2020: Diego Alonso 

Youth and player development

Inter Miami CF Academy

The franchise's youth work is brought together in the Inter Miami CF Academy. There are a total of six youth teams in different age groups, all of which play in the leagues of the US Soccer Development Academy.

Fort Lauderdale CF

→ Main article : Fort Lauderdale CF

At the beginning of October 2019, the Inter-Miami owner group was awarded a franchise for the third- tier USL League One , which is to function as the farm team of the MLS team. In early February 2020, the name Fort Lauderdale CF was published. The team plays their home games at Inter Miami Stadium in Fort Lauderdale .

Legal dispute with Inter Milan

The Italian football club Inter Milan has held the Inter brand for the US market since 2014 . Immediately after the name Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami , or Inter Miami for short , was published in September 2018, Inter Milan published a critical short message on Twitter with the wording "Inter Miami you say?" And a thoughtful emoji . In April 2019, the Milanese filed a complaint with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The USPTO declared in February 2020 that the Inter brand is a global synonym for the Italian football club and that there is a risk of confusion. In doing so, the USPTO did not follow the arguments of Inter Miami and Major League Soccer that other clubs already had this name (e.g. Internacional Porto Alegre , Inter Turku , Inter Leipzig or Inter Zaprešić ) and the name Inter was a general term for Football teams.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Three new owners added to David Beckham's Miami expansion team , mlssoccer.com, December 14, 2017, accessed September 5, 2018.
3. ↑ MLS Miami expansion team unveils name, crest , mlssoccer.com, September 5, 2018, accessed September 5, 2018.
4. ↑ Inter Miami CF Selects Diego Alonso as First-Ever Head Coach in Club History , intermiamicf.com, December 30, 2019, accessed February 4, 2020.
5. ↑ Vela's dream goal hits Beckham in the marrow: Miami loses MLS debut , kicker.de, March 2, 2020, accessed on March 2, 2020.
6. ↑ See the match report , on kicker.de, accessed on March 8, 2020.
7. ↑ Beckham on Miami: "Real Madrid wasn't built in a day either" , kicker.de, July 21, 2020, accessed on August 4, 2020.
8. ↑ Inter Miami CF Signs French National Team Midfielder Blaise Matuidi , intermiamicf.com, August 13, 2020, accessed August 13, 2020.
9. ^ Joey Flechas: Revised terms for Beckham soccer stadium complex offer city concessions, more money . In: Miami Herald , July 17, 2018. Retrieved September 13, 2018. 
10. ↑ David and Victoria Beckham split from business partner Simon Fuller , theguardian.com, May 10, 2019, accessed September 12, 2019.
11. ↑ It's official: Major League Soccer awards expansion team to Miami , January 29, 2018, accessed September 5, 2018.
12. ↑ Inter Miami comes closer to 2020 debut with demolition of Lockhart Stadium , mlssoccer.com, May 8, 2019, accessed July 8, 2019.
13. ^ Roster - Inter Miami CF. Retrieved December 14, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Inter Miami CF Academy ( English ) Inter Miami CF. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
15. ↑ Inter Miami FC, New England Revolution Launch League One Clubs , uslleagueone.com, October 9, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019.
16. ↑ See this tweet from Inter Milan on September 5, 2018, accessed on February 12, 2020.
17. ↑ David Beckham v Inter Milan: Who will gain upper hand in trademark battle? , rt.com, April 4, 2019, accessed February 12, 2020.
18. ↑ Beckham Club Inter Miami threatens to be renamed , spiegel.de, February 12, 2020, accessed on February 12, 2020.
19. ↑ Thanks to Trademark Battle, Inter Miami Might Be Forced to Rebrand , miaminewtimes.com, February 11, 2020, accessed February 12, 2020.
20. ↑ Inter Miami faces name change after legal battle with Internazionale , theguardian.com, February 11, 2020, accessed February 12, 2020.