Ryan Reynolds extends offer to footballing legend to help Wrexham title charge

02 December 2023 , 11:00

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Ryan Reynolds has offered Christine Sinclair a place on the Wrexham Women team (Image: Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Paul Mullin, Rosie Hughes, Ollie Palmer and... Christine Sinclair? Wrexham's enviable glut of striking firepower could be set for a new addition if Wrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds has anything to do about it.

Sinclair will play her final match for Canada on Tuesday as her side face Australia in Vancouver. Canada's all-time leading goalscorer, Sinclair has been instrumental to Canada's success on the international stage, helping them to three Olympic medals including gold at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games.

With 190 goals with the national team to her name, Tuesday marks the end of a glittering, prolific and record-setting career for the 40-year-old.

Or perhaps it doesn't. Reynolds, who also hails from Vancouver like Sinclair, has extended an invitation to the goal-scorer to let her know the end of her career does not have to arrive so soon, with a potentially spectacular second act with Wrexham Women on the cards.

"Moving on in your career to Wrexham, it's huge for the town, the club," smiled Reynolds, in a video to Sinclair played during an interview with CBC. "I think that you are going to be probably the key difference maker going forward up there in North Wales."

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Wrexham Women sit second in Wales' top-flight women's league, the Adran Premier, after winning an historic promotion to the top-flight last season with a sensational unbeaten record.

Record crowds and a new semi-professional operation are some of the first major steps being taken in Reynolds' and fellow co-owner Rob McElhenney's bid to make Wrexham the vanguard for women's football in Wales.

And Sinclair only fanned the flames of speculation over an unlikely cameo as she admitted jovially, "For the right amount of money I could go." Sinclair added that she loved the club's ongoing docuseries Welcome to Wrexham, as well as Reynolds' gin, Aviation American Gin.

Wrexham are accustomed to pushing the footballing envelope and the Racecourse has been the newest playground for A-listers and American celebrities, but luring Sinclair to north Wales would be quite the coup even by Reynold's standards.

"What I really wanted to do is thank you," Reynolds added as a more serious tribute to one of Canada's greatest footballers. "I wanted to thank you for inspiring me, my kids, kids all over Canada and the world, young, old, middle-aged.

"You're incredible and you deserve all the applause that hands could possibly give. Sending you tons of love."

Sinclair's final match for Canada will be played at BC Place (set to be renamed Sinclair Place for the day) on Tuesday with over 40,000 expected to attend.

Megan Feringa