Apparently it’s not just in his workshops Hollywood who are accustomed to making films with almost always happy endings. The same thing happens in football everyday life while two movie stars from Los Angeles are at the helm of the team.

For three years now, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have taken the fate of Wrexham, a team based in the North Wales town of the same name, into their own hands. It all started as a joke when, due to quarantine in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, two Americans tried to find ways to break the monotony of the lockdown as all filming was cancelled. The idea of ​​buying a football team was also on the table, and Wrexham ended up being the “lucky one”.

The club was run by its fans themselves, who tried to keep him alive despite his relegation to the lower divisions of English football. The two alleged owners explained their plans to fans via video conference without initially revealing who they were. They were considered satisfactory and eventually, with a success rate of 98.2% among the 2,000 members of the club, Wrexham passed into their hands. The initial investment amounted to only 2.2 million euros in order to carry out the process of reforming the organizational structure of the club, the stadium, but in general the facilities before the restoration of competition.

But how did two stars from sunny Los Angeles end up in rainy and foggy North Wales? There were three reasons, according to analysts. Firstly, the fact that Wrexham is the third oldest club in the world, whose history dates back to 1864, and secondly, that the locals support their hometown team like crazy, creating a large core of fans who follow them. for every match and thirdly, that because of his self-management, they did not need to give money to the team’s management for takeover, so all resources were invested in taking the club to a new level.

Thus, American-Canadian Ryan Reynolds and American Rob McElhenave turned out to be Wrexham’s wealth managers, as well as the dreams of his fans. The former was more associated with his lead role in Deadpool, a Marvel movie for which he was awarded by the Critics Association and received a Golden Globe nomination. His total net worth is $150 million. On the other hand, McElhenave is an American actor, producer, and director whose biggest success came with the black comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. His fortune reaches 50 million dollars.

Wrexham is now facing one of the biggest weekends in its history. On Saturday (April 22nd) they will host Boreham Wood and if they win they will effectively seal their promotion from the National League to the Second Football League, which was the first goal of the two new owners.

However, they did not calculate that their presence at the club put the city on the tourist map, dramatically increasing the number of their compatriots arriving there. At the same time as the team, the business of the city flourished, which was in the spotlight like never before.