Tag: Hard Rock Stadium

Inter Miami CF negocia com a FIU após recusa de Marlins

Depois de negociações mal sucedidas para jogar no Marlins Park e Hard Rock Stadium, O Clube Internacional de Futebol Miami recorrem ao plano “C” para ter um lugar para seus jogos da MLS.

Miami, FL (3a, 12 de fevereiro 2019) por Kenneth Russo –

Inter Miami CF, o clube de David Beckham, não tem estádio para jogar seus jogos em casa na MLS em 2020. Suas primeiras opções eram: Estádio Hard Rock, casa do NFL Dolphins e Marlins Park, casa dos Marlins MLB, mas devido aos calendários das competições, as diretrizes desses estádios recusaram-se a render um espaço.

Agora, o conselho da Inter Miami CF está negociando com a Universidade Internacional da Flórida (“FIU”), para poder jogar os jogos de 2020 no Estádio Riccardo Silva.

Embora o estádio apresente alguns problemas para a Inter Miami CF jogar lá.

O principal problema para Inter Miami desempenha na FIU, é que o estádio já abriga uma equipe profissional, Miami FC, clube onde os proprietários são Paolo Maldini e Riccardo Silva. Este último é o empresário para quem o estádio da FIU foi nomeado em sua homenagem.

O próximo problema é que, segundo Sean Flynn, CEO de Miami FC, a prioridade do estádio está definido para clube faculdade e suas atividades, a segunda prioridade é a programação para Miami FC, de modo Inter Miami teria que adaptar-se aos eventos das outras duas equipes.

O Estádio Riccardo Silva foi fundado em 1995, hospeda as reuniões do Miami FC e da equipe FIU Golden Panthers, no futebol americano universitário. O estádio custam de US $ 54 milhões e no ano 2007-2008 passou por umas atualizações, onde a sua capacidade tornou-se 20.000 espectadores.

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Marlins decline to share home with Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami

“We don’t feel at this time that Marlins Park is the ideal fit for us.” Jorge Mas, Inter Miami CF Managing Owner

Miami, FL (Thursday, February 7, 2019) by Kenneth Russo –

Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami’s proposal to use Marlins Park as a temporary home will not be in the best interests of the Miami Marlins or Inter Miami CF.

Marlins Director of Operations Chip Bowers indicates that the baseball team does not feel their facility works for Inter Miami because the baseball season overlaps with that of Major League Soccer, which plays a March through October calendar. “We’ve had some conversations with MLS Miami and Jorge Mas and his team,” he said. “Very positive. Been very diligent. Both sides, to each party’s credit, has been really focused on making sure this is the right operational fit. I think the reality is, we’ve both realized, it probably isn’t.”

Bowers said the concurrent MLS and MLB seasons was a major concern.

“I think there’s some challenges having a 17-, 18-game soccer schedule simultaneous to a baseball schedule that falls on the exact same calendar,” he said. “The field would really take a beating. There’s a lot of operational issues that go along with it that would make it really difficult for us to realize.”

Jorge Mas, Managing Owner of Inter Miami CF said: “Frankly, we have a preferred site. We’re going to be making an announcement on that late February, early March, which I think will be great for our fans, for our team and our sponsors. We don’t feel at this time that Marlins Park is the ideal fit for us.” There is still a possibility Inter Miami CF will play a few games at Hard Rock Stadium during the first season in 2020.

Using Hard Rock Stadium however, as an exclusive temporary home is also looking doubtful. Though officials from RSE Ventures declined comment, it appears they also do not feel it is feasible to provide a temporary home to Inter Miami because of spring conflicts with the Miami Open Tennis Tournament that is now housed at the stadium, and fall conflicts with the Miami Dolphins and University of Miami Hurricanes.

Using a baseball stadium to play soccer is never the best option for the simple reason that the sightlines are terrible. The only baseball stadium in the United States that is used for MLS is Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, which has been the home of New York City FC since the club’s inception while NYCFC seeks a permanent stadium site. The difference in New York City is that the Yankees are investors in the soccer team, giving them incentive to make the shared arrangement work. Nevertheless, the conversion from baseball to soccer pitch and back is an expensive, three-day process.

“There’s only one other facility that has done it, and that’s Yankee Stadium with New York FC. The difference there is there’s an equity piece with the Yankees and that particular team,” Bowers said. “There’s a million-dollar-a-game commitment by the team to the Yankees to overcome some of those operational challenges, none of which we think is really in the cards here given the conversations we’ve had with MLS Miami.”

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