Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds. Ben Hider/FX
Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are at a crossroads relating to paying the Wrexham AFC Ladies’s workforce.
“We requested final yr after they had been within the beginner standing, might we pay them. The reply was no, by rule. On this league, you’ve limits on what you’re allowed to pay them,” McElhenney, 47, mentioned throughout the Thursday, Could 9, episode of Welcome to Wrexham. “Simply one other one of many actually enjoyable U.Ok. rules in soccer that maintain you again from doing a number of the belongings you wish to do.”
The Wrexham girls’s workforce gained a Tier 1 license in March 2023, hoping that they might develop into a semiprofessional soccer workforce. By June of that very same yr, Wrexham introduced that 10 girls had signed semiprofessional contracts as they joined the Adran Premier League — the highest girls’s soccer league in Wales.
“This makes Wrexham the primary Membership in North Wales to have a semiprofessional girls’s soccer setup,” the workforce shared in a press release on the time, noting that they had been “delighted” to announce the primary 10 semiprofessional gamers, together with Rosie Hughes, Lili Jones, Rebecca Pritchard, Del Morgan, Phoebe Davies, Amber Lightfoot, Erin Lovett, Katie Sharp, TJ Dickens and Mari Gibbard.
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“That is an historic second, not only for the Soccer Membership however for ladies’s soccer in North Wales and exhibits simply what younger women in our area can aspire to,” Gemma Owen, head of girls’s soccer operations, mentioned on the time. “All 10 gamers signed up up to now have proved themselves on and off the pitch, not simply as wonderful footballers however as nice function fashions too and are becoming pioneers.”
Throughout Thursday’s episode, Wrexham’s govt director, Humphrey Ker, revealed that the ladies’s workforce has moved to a distinct stadium, “which is a considerably extra refined setup.”
As a semiprofessional workforce, the ladies additionally secured extra money and assets. Ker additionally defined that if the workforce gained the Adran Premier throughout the 2023-2024 season, they might go into the Ladies’s Champions League.
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“Champions League is a European competitors the place golf equipment who win their respective leagues of their home nations then go compete with golf equipment in different nations,” Owen mentioned throughout her confessional.
Ker went on to say that the “problem” for the ladies going ahead goes from dominating their division into one with “a few different huge fish.”
New episodes of Welcome to Wrexham premiere on FX Thursdays.
