The sixth oldest team to return to professional soccer

he Wrexham He got his ticket to play next season in The second league. Or what is the same, the historic Welsh club returns to professional football. And he does it afterwards Hollywood Notice it. A real twist in this team’s script that has become one of the most followed in recent times.

Ryan Reynolds And Rob McElhinney They fell in love with Wrexham and decided to save him. The sixth oldest football club in history has seen itself less and less, even leaving what is considered a professional division. That is, play National League in it United kingdom.

However, all this changed when Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhinney bought the club, and then promised the fans to return Wrexham first to professional football, and then, in the not too distant future, to professional football. Premier League. For now, they’ve achieved their initial goal and now all that’s left is to craft a good sports project…and dream like it’s a Hollywood blockbuster.

Historical challenge

It was 2020 when Reynolds and McElhinney became fully involved with Wrexham’s goal, to return the historic club to the elite. Although the work will not be easy or fast. It seemed a very long way to go, given that they are in the fifth tier of British football.

[La apuesta de Ryan Reynolds por el Wrexham]

However, this was not an impediment for the actors to back down. Their work has already been greatly rewarded. In less than three years, Wrexham have made the leap to League Two. This means that it has already reached the point where what is considered professional football begins in the UK.

With their 3-1 win over Boreham Wood, Wrexham mathematically guaranteed to be champions in the First Division in the 2022/2023 season. This means not only being ranked first in their category, but more importantly, achieving promotion to League Two.

Next season, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhinney’s team will be playing in League Four, with the goal of continuing to climb into League One and so on… until one day they can make it to League One. An ambitious challenge that put Wrexham not only in the media all the time Europebut also from the world.

Historic birth

Wrexham, until the time of its purchase by Hollywood actors, was practically unknown to the general public. Although not in welsh, because she is considered one of the three greats in the country. In fact, he is known for being a king Welsh Cupas no club has exceeded its last 23 victories. The first was achieved in 1873 and the last in 1995.

In 1873 he lifted the first Welsh Cup. Only nine years after his birth. Wrexham has the honor of being the sixth oldest team in football history. During his more than 158 years of life, in addition to those 23 titles listed above, he has also managed to lift the title five times. FAW Premier Cup And in one Football League Cup.

Wrexham was falling as the actor fell dead pool And his friend McIlhenny was going up. This season, they achieved direct promotion to the second league after adding 110 points after playing 45 matches, with a record of 115 goals in favor and 42 goals against.

His rise spread all over the world. And that’s not something that normally happens with a team that plays in the fifth tier. Not even within one of the top five leagues in Europe. Capital of 2 million actors, supported by 98 percent of the partners, was seen with the added bonus of advertising on his T-shirt. Tik TokSomething unimaginable for another club of the same category.

The most important sponsor is the purchase of the stadium to own it and also the signing of striker Paul Mullen, who decided to leave Cambridge United, of a higher class, to form part of Ryan Reynolds’ exciting Wrexham project, which he was even able to. To see with his famous actress wife Blake Lively, and their four daughters at a match, and Rob McElhinney. And the story is just beginning.