More than 5,000 miles from Wrexham's meteoric rise up the English Football League pyramid that has earned global headlines, a new Hollywood script is unfolding for the club's celebrity owners in the telenovela-like drama of Mexican fútbol.
"It is so unbelievably, incredibly exciting and passionate and very different from English football," Rob Mac, co-owner of Wrexham and now Liga MX's Necaxa, said to ESPN. "It's the same sport, but the culture is obviously so different, and the gravitas is there in both. The passion is there, but there is a sense that the differences are stark.