How Ryan Reynolds & Co. bought Wrexham's path to promotion

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I still think about him all the time, and I was thinking about him again last weekend. You might remember him, too, since I wrote about him a couple of years ago.

Back in 2015 or '16, I was playing in a coed soccer game on a Thursday night in Los Angeles. There were very few -- if any -- other former collegiate soccer players in this league, so I always clocked the handful of other players who stood out. We were winning by a lot, but this other team had one midfielder, a stocky, shaggy-haired dude dressed all in black who was pretty good on the ball and at least made it hard for me to find space and push the ball forward.

The ref blew the halftime whistle, but as everyone…