This weekend, Lionel Messi will play before a sellout crowd at Hard Rock Stadium. A few months ago, Max Verstappen, Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz competed there. In a few months, Taylor Swift arrives for a series of shows. Say this for the home of the Miami Dolphins: There’s a lot more than football happening there.
Argentina’s Lionel Messi looks on at the end of a Copa America Group A soccer match against Peru in Miami Gardens, Fla., Saturday, June 29, 2024. Argentina’s Lautaro Martínez celebrates scoring his side’s second goal against Peru with teammate Valentín Carboni during a Copa America Group A soccer match in Miami Gardens, Fla., Saturday, June 29, 2024. Argentina’s Alejandro Garnacho and Peru’s Sergio Pena go for a header during a Copa America Group A soccer match in Miami Gardens, Fla.
The Formula 1 track built at the stadium is the site of a race that has created more than $1 billion in economic impact for the area in its first three years of existence. Ross kept South Florida’s biggest tennis event in the area once Key Biscayne no longer was a viable host by building a tennis center at the stadium good enough to keep the world’s best players happy.
And that’s when the plans were born to make the stadium best-in-class for Dolphins fans: an open-air canopy to give most fans some level of shade even in the sunniest hours, tons of new amenities and technology, even taking out about 10,000 seats to have additional space to enhance the experience. With soccer, F1 and concerts factored in, along with Dolphins and Miami Hurricanes home games, the stadium will welcome at least 2 million fans in 2024 and make this the third consecutive year it has reached that figure. And 2026 should be even bigger with the College Football Playoff title game that year along with seven World Cup matches — which could mean another Messi match in a few years.
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