{"id":1426,"date":"2014-02-05T16:53:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2014-02-05T17:23:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:23:47","slug":"beckham-aims-to-build-a-global-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/beckham-aims-to-build-a-global-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckham Aims To Build A Global Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\"><strong>David Beckham has exercised his option to purchase an MLS expansion team and he has selected Miami as the market for his new club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The development was announced at a Wednesday news conference attended by Beckham, MLS Commissioner Don Garber and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez.<\/p>\n<p>Beckham has scouted sites for a possible stadium for the team and is now looking for investors to contribute towards start-up costs such as ground construction and player acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p>The former England captain said: &#8220;This is an exciting time for myself, my family, my friends and partners, and something we are really looking forward to bringing to Miami.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to make a soccer club that is going to be loved by millions of people. We plan on bringing a team that is not just for Miami but is a global team.&#8221;David Beckham.<\/p>\n<p>Beckham said he wanted to create a team that would\u00a0start from scratch and be personal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything I have done throughout my career has been very personal to me, the decisions I have made are all very personal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a big one but a very personal one, I want to make it my own team.&#8221; He said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Beckham has exercised his option to purchase an MLS expansion team and he has selected Miami as the market for his new club. The development was announced at a Wednesday news conference attended by Beckham, MLS Commissioner Don Garber and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez. Beckham has scouted sites for a possible stadium for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}