FILE – Britain’s King Charles III and Camilla, the Queen Consort meet co-owners of the Wrexham football team, US actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, and players during their visit to the Wrexham Association Football Club racecourse grounds in Wrexham, England on Friday , December 9th. 2022. The Hollywood owners of Wrexham are still learning the slang of British football. However, they need no advice when it comes to setting the stage for this weekend’s FA Cup game against second division side Sheffield United. (Arthur Edwards/Pool Photo via AP, file)
BOSTON Wrexham, the fifth-tier Welsh club owned by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, will send a team to a $1 million seven-a-side tournament in Cary, North Carolina, in early June.
The 32-team tournament includes Mexico’s Necaxa and teams led by former United States captain Clint Dempsey, United States women’s midfielder Heather O’Reilly and Hashtag United, a British website founded by YouTube personality Spencer Carmichael-Brown , were organized.
TBT Enterprises is organizing the tournament, which will take place from June 1st to 4th. Wrexham said on Friday his team will include club legends, some from the Welcome to Wrexham Documentary series about FX.
wrexham, Purchased by Reynolds and McElhenney in 2020, started Friday second to Notts County in the English National League and was hoping to move up to fourth-rate League Two. It visits Sheffield United in a replay of the FA Cup fourth round on Tuesday after Goal conceded in the fifth minute of added time in a 3-3 draw on 29 January.
Wrexham advisor Shaun Harvey said if the club wins the tournament, they would use $500,000 of the prize money for community work.
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