Ryan Reynolds is feeling «really lucky» to have his wife, Blake Lively's, support in living out his Ted Lasso dreams. ET's Kevin Frazier spoke with Reynolds and star, and Wrexham A.F.C.
co-owner, Rob McElhenney, ahead of the premiere of their new docuseries,, about buying a Welsh football club, and having their «best friends» by their sides for it all.«I watched so many documentaries,» McElhenney shares. «This was over the pandemic and there weren't a lot of sports on television, so I was either going back and watching old games — I'm a junkie for watching any kind of sport — so an access point into football at the time, were a series of different documentaries, and was one of them, the Maradona documentary was incredible.» «And I just noticed all these commonalities amongst the communities that surrounded the clubs,» he continues. «I just felt like I knew those people, I grew up with those people, I was one of those people.
I loved the Philadelphia sports teams, as much as I could see that people loved their teams.»While Lively, Reynolds' wife of nearly 10 years, didn't fully get her husband's decision to buy a Welsh team, it all clicked for her after the team's star-studded match at Wembley Stadium.«We were laying in bed after the Wembley match, and it wasn't even a particularly riveting match — we lost one one-nil — it wasn't the outcome we wanted,» Reynolds recalled.
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