Futbol Club Cincinnati fans learned more about the Major League Soccer expansion push in Miami than they did about their own Thursday.

Expansion finalist organizations in Cincinnati, Detroit, Nashville and Sacramento and their fans waited Thursday for updates on the MLS Board of Governors expansion vote expected to produce two new entrants to America's top-rung soccer league for the 2020 season.

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What those parties got instead, at least initially, were two statements from the league office, neither of which publicly confirmed anything meaningful for the four finalists.

An initial statement said MLS would continue to work with the four established expansion finalists and provide more details "shortly."

An MLS spokesman declined to comment further to The Enquirer Thursday.

The second statement addressed former international soccer star David Beckham's push to bring a new club to the Miami market.

The league's Board of Governors voted Thursday to approve new members of the ownership group for the Miami franchise, which has labored for years to get off the ground.

South Floridian businessmen Jorge and Jose Mas and Japanese entrepreneur and SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son were confirmed as part of the ownership group, the league said in the statement.

A further announcement on the Miami team is expected to be made prior to the start of the 2018 MLS regular season, the league stated.

The two statements were the sum of a day that was long awaited in the MLS expansion process but ultimately provided no public resolution

It remains unclear if a vote regarding expansion took place Thursday and what the next steps will be for the four finalist organizations.

Why David Beckham and Miami aren't a threat to FC Cincinnati

The approval of the additions to the Miami franchise's ownership group stole the thunder Thursday and might have signaled that club is now on track to join MLS, but FC Cincinnati and the other expansion finalists aren't really impacted by that development.

Beckham's years-old expansion project, which goes by the working title of "Miami Beckham United," is separate from the round of open-application expansion FC Cincinnati is engaged in.

MLS is home to 23 teams and is building toward 28, and Miami's always been accounted for in the 28. Therefore, the could-be addition of Miami Beckham United isn't really blocking FC Cincinnati's path.

As part of a $250 million contract to play in MLS starting during the 2007 season, Beckham's contract stipulated he could later start a team and pay a franchise fee of $25 million (the price of admission now for new franchises is $150 million).

Beckham's group, which includes entertainment mogul Simon Fuller and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure as part owners, has been delayed for nearly four years for various reasons.

As FC Cincinnati grew into an expansion frontrunner, its path appeared to intersect with that of Miami Beckham United through speculation that FC Cincinnati or other expansion finalists could knock Miami out of the running to begin play in 2019.

Thursday's vote might have been a signal that the 2019 avenue to MLS is only open to Miami, but FC Cincinnati's ability to enter the league in 2020 or later doesn't appear to be hindered because of any progress earned in Miami.