Wrexham co-chairmen Rob McElhenney (left) and Ryan Reynolds throughout a press convention on the Racecourse Floor, Wrexham. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Photographs by way of Getty Photographs
Wrexham AFC, the lower-division Welsh soccer workforce co-owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, will play its first U.S. sport in Cary this summer season.
Driving the information: Wrexham, which options within the fashionable FX Sequence “Welcome to Wrexham,” shall be enjoying in a 7-on-7 soccer event in Cary with a grand prize of $1 million, ESPN reported.
Particulars: “The Soccer Event” shall be performed at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary June 1-4.
- Thirty-two groups will compete, together with a workforce led by U.S. soccer star Clint Dempsey, who now lives in North Carolina.
- A workforce of former U.S. ladies’s nationwide workforce gamers â led by U.S. star and UNC legend Heather O’Reilly â will even take part.
Go deeper: How Ryan Reynolds turned Wrexham right into a spectacle. (New York Occasions)
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