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.

"English football, it feels more like a fight. A Mexican football game feels like a dance, and I knew, 'Oh wow, that feels different enough to us than Wrexham that we could tell a really beautiful sto

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