Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds, Eva Longoria and Rob McElhenney are the new big investors in the Necaxa soccer club. The news was announced after Longoria’s presence at the Victoria stadium in Aguascalientes last weekend to watch the last league match against Club Monterrey. María Teresa Jiménez Esquivel, governor of the State of Aguascalientes, welcomed the actress, director and businesswoman born in Texas, United States, on the grass of the hydro-warm stadium.
It is not clear what the role of the new investors will be or how much this investment was, according to Variety, the media that carried the exclusive. They report that, according to a statement close to the agreement made by RR McReynolds Company, the company of Reynolds and McElhenney, the acquisition is of a “significant size.”
With this transaction, Al Tylis, an investment group to which Longoria belongs, acquired 5% of the Scottish club Wrexham AFC, one of the oldest football teams in the history of sports that after its glory days, when the sun stopped shining for the Scots and fell to the fifth division, they saw that the opportunity to get out of the hole they put themselves in was possible when American investors decided to buy the team in 2020. Four years later, with 159 years of history on the shield and the showcases, Wrexham returned to the Scottish first division.
A documentary series on the FX network made the world turn to see a team that no one knew about outside the United Kingdom. The first season of “Welcome to Wrexham” won five Emmy Awards. The chain of reactions that happen after the success of a realityFrom an economic point of view, they translate into two words: more money. It is no secret that the best football teams in the world are also the ones with the most resources to spend, buy and invest. Not only in elite players. The money is also used to remodel the training space, hire better physiotherapists or nutritionists, get juicy agreements with sponsors, among others.
Although the rumors are strong and difficult to ignore about a possible Necaxa club documentary series, like that of Wrexham AFC, nothing has been confirmed yet. According to close sources, it would still be premature to confirm it, according to Variety. The rights of the hydro-warm club must first be reviewed by new investors before signing any new agreement.
Eva Longoria overshadowed the pre-match. She posed with a black club t-shirt; she held in front of the camera the sweater red and white as a player, wearing the number 12. The first half was goalless; Seven minutes into the second half the home team lost two goals to zero. But the discount for the hydrocalides arrived, by Diber Cambindo and the broadcast camera, before focusing on the striker’s celebration, portrayed Longoria celebrating as a lifelong fan of the Necaxa rays. The excitement did not last long, the match was five goals to two, in favor of the visitor. What the Stripes are missing is a season on television to return to their glory days?
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