Showing posts with label MLS. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

David Beckham announces Miami MLS Team

David Beckham is attending events throughout South Florida around Wednesday's press conference with Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber, where he's expected to make an announcement about the future of a team in Miami.
 
 Tuesday Night at the Adrienne Arsht Center

On Tuesday night he attended a private invite-only reception at Adrienne Arsht Center. When asked by reporters to comment on his MLS team, he would only say, “I’m going to answer all those questions tomorrow. I think everyone will be very happy with tomorrow, hopefully, and it’s an exciting time for myself, an exciting time to be welcomed into a city like this, so yeah, tomorrow’s going to be a good day.”

On Wednesday, at the Perez Art Museum, as expected the former LA Galaxy, Real Madrid and Manchester United player exercised his option to become an owner of a new MLS franchise in Miami ending months of speculation.

Wednesday Press Conference at Perez Art Museum

To mark the transition from player to club owner, Beckham opted for a more executive look for both events. Tuesday for the more formal event, he wore a black Ralph Lauren Black Label 'Anthony' suit with a white Aston shirt by the same fashion label and on Wednesday he went to is British roots and wore a Burberry suit in grey.

Ralph Lauren is an all American designer, who started his life in fashion working for Brook Brothers as a sales associate and eventually left to become a salesman for a tie company. In 1966, when he was 26, he was inspired to design a wide, European-style necktie, but the idea was rejected by the company he worked for. He left to establish his own company selling the ties he made to small shops in New York.

David Beckham in Louis Vuitton and Ray Ban (Miami)

David Beckhan was spotted leaving his hotel in Miami, where he is in town getting ready to make a major announcement regarding his Miami MLS expansion team, rumored to be named Miami United Football Club. While in Miami, David opted for a vintage look dressed in a  pair of Louis Vuitton dress slacks, lavender shirt (designer unknown) and a pair of Ray Ban Clubmaster sunglasses.

If you look really close at the picture, you will see that David is sporting a metal band on each of his arms, which is known as sleeve garters. Sleeve garters is a fashion accessory from the latter half of the 19th century that allowed men to customize their sleeve lengths. It was popular among bartenders, musicians, bookies and well dressed gunslingers from the Old West. Today you will find your local blackjack dealers in Las Vegas wearing them for aesthetic purposes as well as to make it difficult for them to conceal a card in their sleeves.