{"id":7283,"date":"2026-09-03T17:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7283"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:43:06","slug":"hugh-jackman-wants-to-buy-soccer-club-to-rival-ryan-reynolds-and-wrexham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7283","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman Wants To Buy Soccer Club To Rival Ryan Reynolds And Wrexham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Hugh Jackman wants to join his fellow Hollywood star and friend Ryan Reynolds in owning part of a soccer club in the English leagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Jackman has long been a fan of Norwich, his mother\u2019s home city in the east of England. The Wolverine star was asked in an interview broadcast on Thursday if he would like to &#8220;buy a bit&#8221; of the club which is majority owned by Mark Attanasio, the Milwaukee Brewers principal owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>&#8220;I\u2019m very, very interested in talking about it right now,&#8221; he told British broadcaster TalkSport while promoting his new movie, &#8220;The Death of Robin Hood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>&#8220;You\u2019re the first one to know that. There\u2019s a little exclusive,&#8221; Jackman said when asked if he would &#8220;follow suit&#8221; with Reynolds, who put Wrexham on the global soccer and culture map after buying the club with Rob Mac in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Norwich and Wrexham are now rivals in the English second-tier Championship, though Jackman\u2019s team has the more illustrious history. Norwich last played in the Premier League four years ago, and had perhaps its finest moment in 1993, eliminating German power Bayern Munich in the old UEFA Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>&#8220;Good on Ryan, you do your thing, I\u2019m all about the Canaries,&#8221; Jackman said, citing Norwich\u2019s nickname linked to the team\u2019s distinctive yellow and green uniform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Norwich and Wrexham both are expected to be contenders this season to earn promotion to the Premier League, the world\u2019s most valuable club soccer competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>&#8220;I think it\u2019s an exciting team and it\u2019s going to be an exciting year,&#8221; Jackman said, praising Norwich\u2019s turnaround since hiring Belgian coach Philippe Clement last November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROWSE BY Hugh Jackman wants to join his fellow Hollywood star and friend Ryan Reynolds in owning part of a soccer club in the English leagues. Jackman has long been a fan of Norwich, his mother\u2019s home city in the east of England. The Wolverine star was asked in an interview broadcast on Thursday if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}