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Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

BEST BITE: Ryan Reynolds & Rob McElhenney buy stake in Necaxa & VAR impacting the game

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

FOX Sports

Soccer, News, Sports, Sports News

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse discuss Wrexham AFC owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buying a stake in Liga MX's Club Necaxa and what it may mean for North American soccer going forward. They also address how VAR and technology have become an important part of the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Those two good-looking dude actors over there, the Ryan Gostling and what no wait the

0:04.8

Ryan Reynolds and the other guy Rob Mackelhaney.

0:07.7

Mackelhaney, right? Two obvious talents, really smart, interesting, funny, like I said, talented and entertaining young

0:17.6

men and we have seen also some pretty good businessmen when it comes to what they have done

0:23.4

with Wrexham and the juggernaut that that that is and the global marketing of

0:29.8

that show. Well we come to find out this morning that evidently they are

0:33.0

expanding their empire when it comes to investment in teams and they are buying a

0:38.1

stake in Mexico's Club Nacaxa down there and Ava Longoria is a owner and evidently she brought them into the

0:46.8

full. It remains to be seen how this is going to happen and what's going to happen but I think

0:51.1

along the lines of a welcome direct some type of television show who knows maybe there's one for Nacoxa Spanish language you know it moves on and so that's that's great for them

1:00.0

as I have said time and time again, I believe in competition, I believe in capitalism, I believe in a situation like this where two smart young men are investing wisely and I would never presume to tell them what to do

1:14.7

with their money or how to invest especially when it seems like it's going it's going

1:18.0

great but this gets back to a thing that we talked about a few weeks ago where

1:21.5

someone posited that that they are doing wonderful things for American soccer.

1:26.5

All right? Not only are they not doing wonderful things for American soccer, but

1:31.2

this goes absolutely against American soccer, but this goes absolutely against American soccer.

1:35.0

This is putting your money and your time and your focus on everything but American soccer.

1:40.2

And it's okay.

1:41.2

Again, I'm not angry at them.

1:43.0

I'm just pointing this out.

1:46.0

But it also should bring up the question,

1:49.0

and this is a fair question, as to why are they doing that?

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