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Marcelo Claure , chief executive of Brightstar Corp., the telecommunications-services company, agrees: "Upgrading our subpar infrastructure in the U.S., and even considering options like privatizing infrastructure if needed for funding purposes...would be a good place to start delivering meaningful jobs in the U.S."

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In the coming months, Barcelona and Claure will no doubt be looking into similar concerns with a keen eye, evaluating finances and other risks discerningly.

From laughing stock to frontrunner in six easy months Duane Rollins 2009

I know that the cash position of Claure has more to do with it than anything, but I think your comments are uniquely appropriate with the "news" that Barcelona is reconsidering their support of the Miami bid.

Sound(ers) the bell on MLS' health Duane Rollins 2009

For the time being, Desai and Claure are getting ready for the arrival of grad students enrolling at Northwestern, the University of Chicago, Loyola, DePaul, and the University of Illinois at Chicago-not to mention the U. of I. 's downstate campus at Urbana-Champaign, as well as 49 other campuses around the country.

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MLS and Barcelona formed a five-year strategic partnership last year; independently, Claure and Barcelona president

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Formerly the president of Bolivia's Club Bolívar, Claure had worked with the Spanish club on exchanges and development programs.

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During a vacation in Spain last month, Garber met with Laporta, and for the first time announced that if Miami's bid was accepted, the team would begin play in 2010, not 2011, as Claure had insisted from the beginning.

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Claure and Desai are funding the start-up themselves for now, but they hope to see it grow to the point where they can attract venture capital or some other source of funding, Desai says.

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Claure, a Bolivian-born millionaire and founder of Brightstar Corp. -- a telecommunications manufacturer and distributor of cell phones and accessories, wireless data equipment and prepaid wireless products -- last year formed an alliance with Barcelona to apply for an MLS expansion franchise.

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"It was one of the most unfair dates in the world, for we signed a collaboration agreement," said Claure in an interview last November.

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