Report: David Beckham on verge of securing Miami stadium site for MLS franchise

David Beckham's struggles in securing a site for his Major League Soccer franchise appears to be reaching a solution, with his negotiators finding an appropriate four-acre spot in the Overtown neighborhood of Miami, according to Douglas Hanks and David Smiley of the Miami Herald.

Sources claim there is also a hope that nearby county land that's currently occupied by a Miami-Dade sewage plant can be secured. All the real state and stadium is intended to be owned solely by Beckham's group, Miami Beckham United, dropping previous efforts for a property tax-dodging, government-owned stadium.

Since Beckham exercised his option to begin an MLS franchise at a cost of $25 million in February 2014 - a stipulation written into his contract when he joined the LA Galaxy in 2007 - the task in finding a home for a Miami club has proved an ordeal. Sites at PortMiami, the city's downtown waterfront and next door to the Miami Marlins' Marlins Park have all fallen through.

Now it looks as if Beckham has found a home for his football team though, and an official announcement from his group is believed to be imminent.