David Beckham's planned Miami franchise facing MLS deadline

David Beckham's protracted efforts to bring a Major League Soccer team to Miami are coming up against a deadline, league commissioner Don Garber said on Friday. 

Beckham announced nearly three years ago that he intended to bring a team to the South Florida city, exercising an option he had to create a new franchise. 

'There is a deadline on the Miami deal. I am not going to share that deadline, it is an agreement we have with David and (his business partner) Simon Fuller,' Garber told reporters. 

League commissioner Don Garber

'But ... we need to resolve the Miami situation so that we can go forward with our expansion plans for expansion teams 25-28 because they are team 24 and if they are not going to be 24 there are going to be a lot of things that need to move around and it is something we will discuss at our board meeting,' he said. 

'We may or may not come out of that meeting with anything definitive that we will announce publicly as it relates to Miami,' added Garber. 

'There is a timetable and we continue to work with our ownership group because we want a team in Miami. We try to do everything we can to ensure we have the right recipe for success as we are building clubs that we would like to be there for the rest of time,' said Garber. 

'We continue to to be very engaged there. We have reached agreement on land, we have investor groups, we have all sorts of community issues ... zoning issues and it is all happening in real time,' he said.