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Beckham’s venture gets go-ahead

By AFP
December 16, 2017

MIAMI: English football icon David Beckham has a new trio of partners in his bid to bring a Major League Soccer club to Miami.The league said Thursday it had approved the addition to Beckham’s ownership group of Jorge and Jose Mas, leaders of telecommunications giant MasTec, and Japanese entrepreneur and SoftBank founder and chief executive Masayoshi Son.Beckham, Sprint chief executive and Brightstar founder Marcelo Claure and entertainment entrepreneur and manager Simon Fuller were all already part of the consortium which has been battling to secure a stadium site.