Ryan Reynolds is very good at doing two things: playing Deadpool (the new chapter in the film saga of the talkative mercenary will arrive in Italian cinemas on July 24, together with Deadpool there will also be Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine) and buying football teams. Everything is already known about Wrexham, everything has already been told: it is a success story that has enriched both the Welsh city and the bank account of Reynolds – and of his business partner Rob McElhenny, also an actor, known above all for being a of the creators and performers of the sitcom It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – and which has enthralled fans and enthusiasts from all over the world. If you have never heard of Wrexham, we recommend this wonderful article written by Richard Sutcliffe for The Athletic and the documentary series Welcome to Wrexham available on Disney+. Here, however, we are talking about the other team just acquired (in part) by the dynamic Reynolds-McElhenny duo: Club Necaxa, a club that plays in the Mexican Primera División.
As Joyce Li reports above Hypebeast, the RR McReynolds Company – this is the name of the company founded by the two actors – has therefore decided to expand its football portfolio and broaden its operations to the South American continent. The choice, of course, was not random: among the other owners of Club Necaxa there is another Hollywood star, Eva Longoria, as well as football finance professionals such as Al Tylis and Sam Porter. The intriguing thing about this operation by the RR McReynolds Company is that the company now seems to have developed its own “football research and development” method. As already done with Wrexham, in fact, Reynolds and McElhenny want to grow the Necaxa Club by making it first and foremost a multimedia product: the right coaches and players are important, of course, but Reynolds and McElhenny seem convinced that before working on the pitch, things must be set up outside. In the media, in particular: only After that Club Necaxa will have become a brand, perhaps the protagonist of a documentary, a film, a TV series as has already happened for Wrexham, then the team will have the purchasing power necessary to attract better coaches, stronger players.
At the moment it is not known the precise role that Reynolds and McElhenney will play in the Club Necaxa organizational chart. But all those who learned about their business model in the Welsh years are sure of one thing: in the future, especially in the United States, we will hear more and more about Club Necaxa. It seems that when it came to choosing the next team to invest their money in, Reynolds and McElhenney researched which is the most followed football league in the United States. When they discovered that it was the Primera División (followed much, much more than MLS, La Liga and Premier League, the other leagues most watched by Americans) they were quite surprised. And then they began operations to purchase a share (perhaps just the first) of Necaxa.
