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Sam Portillo

The Americans who've fallen in love with Wrexham amid Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's Hollywood story

A win at the Racecourse on Saturday will be enough for Wrexham to secure their return to the Football League, but the club already has something that even some Premier League clubs cannot lay claim to: an international fan base.

When Wales' oldest football club needed a fresh lick of paint, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney pitched up with a story straight out of Hollywood. With star players on the pitch, A-list celebrities in the stands and an award-winning Disney+ documentary to boot, just how deep does Wrexham's support go overseas?

News that Deadpool and Mac from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia had taken over a "struggling" Welsh soccer club generated a buzz, but it wasn't until the release of the Welcome to Wrexham series on Disney+ that the club and town of Wrexham sunk into the American conscience.

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