Here's what David Beckham's Miami MLS franchise announcement means for FC Cincinnati

What Miami's Major League Soccer announcement Monday lacked in details it made up for in providing the long-awaited and most important detail of all: That America's top-rung soccer league is coming to Miami.

MLS Commissioner Don Garber on Monday confirmed the Miami market as the latest expansion addition to the league.

A Monday news conference was absent some substantive details about the club but all anyone involved with the project likely wanted to hear after years of fighting toward a successful end was that Miami was simply in.

“It is with tremendous pride that we welcome Miami to Major League Soccer,” MLS Commissioner Don Garber said in a league release. “With David Beckham, Marcelo Claure, Jorge and José Mas, Masayoshi Son and Simon Fuller leading the way, we know the right people are in place and the time is right for Miami to become a great Major League Soccer city.”

Garber later told reporters Miami would begin play in 2020 alongside fellow expansion entrant Nashville, which was confirmed for the league in December.

The Miami Herald first reported Miami would be confirmed this week by MLS.

Meanwhile, in Cincinnati, some fans angsted over the sight of a second expansion organization being confirmed for America's top run soccer league while Futbol Club Cincinnati remains in limbo during its own expansion application process.

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There's no need to fret over the Miami announcement, though. Miami's inclusion in expansion has no bearing on FC Cincinnati because the respective expansion processes involving Miami and Cincinnati were separate.

Stated simply, there's nothing for FC Cincinnati fans to be discouraged about after the Monday announcement in Miami.

The process in Miami started years ago and was born of a $250 million contract to play in MLS entered into by MLS and international soccer star David Beckham when he joined the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007.

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The contract gave Beckham the option of later starting a team in the league. That process began four years ago.

In the intervening months and years, Beckham's project to build a team in Miami saw ebbs and flows of momentum.

At times, the project was mocked and derided as it dragged on. At another point, a Beckham appearance in Las Vegas suggested the former Manchester United and Real Madrid free-kick maestro was ready to take his expansion hopes elsewhere.

When the Miami bid finally reached the finish line Monday, it did so to great fanfare. A reported crowd of thousands attended the announcement that had been billed as similar to the December announcement in Nashville but proved to be noticeably flashier.