Wrexham striker Rosie Hughes praised team co-owners Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds for their constant support of the women’s soccer team. “Not only are they focusing on the men’s side of the football, but they’ve also helped us women a lot by being there for us,” Hughes, 28, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting the team’s charitable initiative with Good Sports and Gatorade . “They’ve come to events.
They’ve even watched us play some of our games.” Since purchasing Wrexham AFC in 2020, McElhenney and Reynolds haven’t acted like “just background people,” rather as “part of the football club,” Hughes added. “They come and they work on the house front and show their face.
” Welcome to Wrexham premiered via FX in August 2022, but when the show returned for season 2 in September 2023, the Wrexham AFC Women’s team became a huge part of the show. “They’re just genuinely nice people who are really down to earth and want to know about your story,” Hughes continued. “And it’s not about them.
They make us feel like it’s about us.” The Wrexham AFC Women were promoted to the Adran Premier League in 2023, making them first-tier soccer players in North Wales. Thanks to their inclusion in Welcome to Wrexham , Hughes and the players can “possibly be part of making history” by putting Wrexham on the map.
When it comes to the rise in women’s sports, Hughes thinks “we’ve still got a long way to go” but notes that “we’ve come.