![]() ![]() ![]() "I grew up hearing that America's team in football was the Dallas Cowboys, and I feel like America's team in soccer is now Wrexham," said Jon Mugar, founder and CEO of The Soccer Tournament (TST), a four-day competition kicking off on Thursday in Cary, North Carolina, that features Wrexham. Instead, the club has become a source of intense fascination for an American fanbase often blithely ignorant of the English Football drama that unfolds each year across the Atlantic. The Welsh club that languished for 15 years beneath the fourth tier of English football may never have entered the American consciousness if not for celebrity owners and Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney and their popular docu-series "Welcome to Wrexham". ![]() after they earned a fairytale return to the English Football League. NEW YORK, May 31 (Reuters) - Wrexham's love affair with American fans begins a new chapter this week, with a series of matches scheduled in the U.S. ![]()
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