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 June 29 Copa America Group A soccer match against Peru in Miami Gardens, Fla.
The Copa America soccer final on Sunday pitting Messi and Argentina against Colombia is just the latest in a long line of major events coming to the home of the Dolphins. Stadium and Dolphins owner Stephen Ross envisioned transforming the facility into a global entertainment destination spending over $1 billion of his personal fortune – private money – to remodel.
