Messi’s Inter Miami opens new stadium that's befitting of MLS’s glitziest club

MIAMI — In many ways, Nu Stadium, Inter Miami’s sparkling, canopied new home arena, mirrors the club it will be housing.The road to completion has been filled with promises, detours and red tape. Even now, it’s still not completely a finished product, to the point that after a social media onslaught boasting the opening of the facility, Saturday’s inaugural event came perilously close to needing to take place under restrictive conditions. The rush to open has included another round of political conflict. Despite all that, there’s an inevitability that Nu Stadium will be spectacular and grow in stature. It has taken time and come at cost, but oozes potential and could well become a standard bearer for MLS and American soccer. That is, in essence, the Inter Miami story.Advertisement