{"id":181180,"date":"2026-03-06T20:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181180\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:14:16","slug":"inter-miami-d-c-united-prep-for-mls-first-game-in-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181180\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami, D.C. United prep for MLS\u2019 first game in Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">Inter Miami will face D.C. United at 4pm ET on Saturday in the first MLS match played in Baltimore. M&amp;T Bank Stadium, with a capacity of 71,008, is three times larger than United\u2019s Audi Field in Washington, D.C. Maryland Stadium Authority Head of Security Vernon Conaway Jr. said there will be \u201cadditional field security,\u201d both \u201cin uniform and in non-uniform capacities,\u201d after Inter Miami F Lionel Messi was swarmed by fans during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/27\/messi-swarmed-by-fans-on-pitch-during-preseason-exhibition-in-puerto-rico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/27\/messi-swarmed-by-fans-on-pitch-during-preseason-exhibition-in-puerto-rico\/\">preseason match last week in Puerto Rico<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanner.com\/sports\/lionel-messi-superfans-mt-bank-stadium-DGS2PFR2CFDKBLSHVHVOJO44FU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thebanner.com\/sports\/lionel-messi-superfans-mt-bank-stadium-DGS2PFR2CFDKBLSHVHVOJO44FU\/\">BALTIMORE BANNER, 3\/6<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">United CEO Jason Levien said the \u201cdemand is there to fill that stadium,\u201d adding it is \u201calso showing the passion for soccer in Maryland.\u201d He was in Annapolis, where he was \u201cmaking the rounds to press\u201d for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/12\/baltimore-mayor-carmelo-anthony-back-dc-united-led-stadium-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/12\/baltimore-mayor-carmelo-anthony-back-dc-united-led-stadium-project\/\">12,000-seat soccer stadium in Baltimore<\/a>. The game being played in Baltimore could help D.C. United\u2019s push to \u201cbuild a new stadium and expansion teams\u201d in Maryland (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/washington-dc\/2026\/03\/04\/dc-united-intermiami-messi-match-baltimore-expansion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/washington-dc\/2026\/03\/04\/dc-united-intermiami-messi-match-baltimore-expansion\">AXIOS, 3\/4<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inter Miami will face D.C. United at 4pm ET on Saturday in the first MLS match played in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,5692,2062],"class_list":["post-181180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mls","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}