Wrexham: Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney join victory parade

Hollywood actors and co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney person joined Wrexham's footballers connected their open-top autobus parade.

Thousands of fans person taken to the streets to observe Wrexham winning the National League and promotion backmost to the English Football League.

The supporters are celebrating the club's instrumentality to the EFL aft a 15-year absence.

Amongst them are fans from New Zealand and the USA.

In total, determination are 3 buses, and connected committee are Wrexham's men's side, women's side, who clinched promotion to the Genero Adran Premier by winning their play-off final, positive the Hollywood owners.

it is understood the parade is taking longer than expected due to the fact that of the numbers successful the crowds greeting the players.

The streets done the metropolis centre are lined with reddish shirts, arsenic the sounds of horns go deafening.

Amelie, 11, has ne'er seen her beloved nine successful the shot league arsenic she was calved aft their relegation successful 2008 and cannot hold until adjacent season.

"It's truthful bully to get the accidental to spot Wrexham successful the league," she said.

"My grandad has told maine stories astir Wrexham successful the league and present I'm truthful gladsome I'll beryllium capable to acquisition that for myself."

Veterinary caregiver Jessica Crowe, 20, has followed Wrexham done heavy and thin.

"It's been a brainsick fewer years but the owners haven't conscionable reinvigorated the club, but the community," she said.

"It's fixed the municipality a immense buzz - and that's benefitting each portion of the assemblage and makes radical privation to travel and bask Wrexham. It's brought everyone together."

Chloe, 27, has supported Wrexham each her life, and attended the parade with her seven-year-old girl Evie.

"This play has brought a batch of goodness to the town. It's superb seeing truthful galore radical and the benefits it's bringing our assemblage and Wrexham is incredible," she said.

Evie added: "I'm precise excited to beryllium present contiguous due to the fact that we get to spot each the players. Mullin is my favourite subordinate and I'm truly excited to spot him and I similar Ben Foster."

Becki and Sonny Hendricks from Virginia, USA, some became fans aft watching the Disney+ documentary that features the emergence of the club, called Welcome to Wrexham.

They visited for the archetypal clip to ticker Wrexham past month, and bought tickets for their 2nd travel arsenic soon arsenic Wrexham secured promotion.

"We emotion it here. We privation to observe with the awesome radical of Wrexham," said Becki.

Sonny added: "We've made caller friends, and anticipation they are lifelong friends and this volition beryllium an yearly trip. It's a large underdog communicative and the municipality is truthful quaint and welcoming."

Joel and Laura Wallan, from Christchurch, New Zealand, added the travel to their UK vacation aft watching the Disney+ amusement Welcome to Wrexham which features the club.

"It seems similar they've ever had beardown support, but aft immoderate adversity years agone and mismanagement, they merit to beryllium successful the shot league," said Joel.

Francs Dotolo has lived successful Wrexham for 22 years, but is primitively from Montreal successful Canada.

"It's truthful engaged here," she said.

"I've adjacent seen media unit from my location municipality successful Canada it's crazy, what an occasion"

The club's owners person besides said determination is "seriousness" to their offer to Wales shot superstar Gareth Bale to travel retired of status and articulation the nine adjacent season.

Speaking to S4C, McElhenney - champion known for his relation successful It's Always Sunny successful Philadelphia - said: "I deliberation there's seriousness from our side, but I don't cognize that there's seriousness from his. I deliberation he's happy."

He added: "We don't respond to it due to the fact that we cognize what the information is, which is that the nine is surely connected its mode to becoming sustainable and that's what our extremity is".

Reynolds said: "Ultimately similar immoderate concern you privation it to self-perpetuate and proceed growing. You don't privation to suffer wealth but I don't deliberation either of america are successful this to marque wealth either.

"So it's conscionable astir increasing the champion imaginable nine and uncovering worth successful immoderate spot we can, whether that's fiscal oregon emotional: sometimes that's indistinguishable."

Asked if they inactive hoped to scope the Premier League, they said it was "100%" possible.

Reynolds said: "Of people our extremity is to get to the Premier League - wherefore wouldn't it be, if we tin bash that. Whether it takes 5 years, whether it takes 20 years, that's the goal, that's the mission

Wrexham did transportation erstwhile Manchester United and England goalkeeper Ben Foster to travel retired of retirement, resuming his vocation successful March and helping the northbound Wales nine to promotion.

"I didn't deliberation Ben Foster would beryllium coming implicit and helium did," McElhenney told USA-based writer Maxine Hughes, who has appeared successful comic videos with the Wrexham owners, translating them into Welsh.

Reynolds said helium cannot halt watching the highlights of the title-clinching 3-1 triumph implicit Boreham Wood, describing it arsenic "sort of an addiction", and that helium is "emotionally connected" to each subordinate successful the club.

Since the takeover the nine has gained fans astir the world, including personage names specified arsenic Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd, acknowledgment to the owners' prima powerfulness and the occurrence of Welcome to Wrexham.

Wrexham AFC main enforcement Fleur Robinson said: "We are looking guardant to commemorating a genuinely memorable and record-breaking play together."