North Bay Village mayor scored all-expenses-paid trip to London from soccer facility bidder

North Bay Village Mayor Brent Latham presenting a proclamation to Argentine Football Association President Claudio Tapia on Sept. 21.

By Francisco Alvarado, FloridaBulldog.org

On June 1, North Bay Village Mayor Brent Latham had prime lower bowl seats at London’s Wembley Stadium for the Cup of Champions, a South America versus Europe soccer match between heavyweights Argentina and Italy. From his vantage point, Latham snapped a close-up photo of Argentinian soccer hero Lionel Messi in the pitch and filmed a short video of the futbol aficionados around him, according to posts on the mayor’s Instagram account.

The mayor’s VIP ticket came courtesy of the Argentine Football Association, or AFA, which picked up the tab for Latham to spend a week in the United Kingdom’s capital city. About a month earlier, at the tail end of a regular village commission meeting and without public notice, Latham and two of his colleagues voted to approve his London trip so he could finish hammering out the details of an agreement between North Bay Village and AFA to build a soccer-oriented municipal complex and park on village-owned land and a portion of the land of a public school, Treasure Island Elementary.

North Bay Village mayor scored all-expenses-paid trip to London from soccer facility bidder

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