It all started at a dinner in Los Angeles at the mansion of the then most influential Latino couple in the USA:
J.Lo (Jennifer López) and Marc Anthony. The singer and actress who entertained the guests of her husband, a successful singer, used to organize evenings at her residence, meetings that brought together relevant figures from the community. The Bolivian businessman Marcelo Claure met at one of those dinners Simon Fuller
, which recounted details of the dream of David Beckham
of landing an MLS soccer franchise for Miami.
Claure
, who already had a team in Bolivia, wanted to know more about the project and later agreed to be one of the most relevant shareholders. In Miami, Claure It ceased to be anonymous, the local press even detailed the acquisition of a mansion in Miami Beach for 11.1 million dollars.
Claure
is the same businessman who took over 35% of the Girona shares, a close friend of Ferran Soriano, always well connected with the family Messi -with Jorge they came to propose business- and also a close friend of Pere Guardiola, brother of Onp.
Claure
He entered the shareholding of Inter Milan as Masayoshi Som although the investment of the brothers was key More, Jorge and Jose, in the city team that adopted his father, Jorge Mas Canosa, when he arrived from Cuba. The patriarch was a well-known and beloved person in Miami, a philanthropist involved in politics and a leader among the Cuban community.
David Beckham
He has a different profile from the rest of the shareholders, which is why in 2019 he decided to sell his package of shares precisely to the Mas even though he acts as the image and president of the Florida club.
Claure
is the one that tempts
Leo messi
already Luis Suarez with the golden retreat in Miami, a city as comfortable as Castelldefels, with good international schools, a city where the stars live a practically normal life because there are so many popular people living in a kilometer around that nobody is surprised to see having a coffee to
R
icky Martin junto a Will Smith, Carmen Elektra o Jackie Chan. And soccer is still in the USA for Latinos.
A
Suarez already Messi
The American dream has been haunting them for months, the two of them together, enjoying a championship without pressure, residing in a city where Spanish is spoken and the sun shines.
For the American multinationals linked to the image of Leo, that the Argentine lands in Miami is brutal, for them and for the MLS and even for the government of the country that already with Obama considered ‘soccer’ as strategic and organizing the World Cup as a business opportunity.
Beckham, back in the day, he joked with
Neymar: “I’m going to make you a contract for when you leave Europe …”. TO
Paul McDonough, the Technical Director of the team that was fired not so long ago, surely the accounts would not come out thinking that the team can only have three franchise players and in the MLS they do not move the amounts of money that in the European leagues. But there is a market with sponsors, Amazon and interesting new technologies. And to think that it all started with
Jennifer Lopez
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