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Coaching a professional soccer team that’s the subject of an Emmy award-winning TV show brings a whole other degree of difficulty. Phil Parkinson has embraced the task as head coach of Welsh club Wrexham AFC, the subject of the show ‘Welcome to Wrexham,’ and encouraged everyone around the team to balance soccer with stardom. “I always say to the lads, ‘Remember, we’re representing a working-class town in Wrexham.
And the performances have got to reflect that,'” Parkinson said on a video call Monday. “We’ve embraced all the extra demands on the players, whether it’s cameras around them or other commercial activities. But we never lose the focus that the most important thing we can do is win on a Saturday afternoon at three o’clock.
And all our energy goes into that, really.” Wrexham exploded into the spotlight in 2020 when actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney announced they were buying the club and planning to film a documentary about it. The show premiered to solid reviews in 2022 and is currently in its third season.
Now Parkinson and his team are preparing to play in Canada for the first time. The Vancouver Whitecaps .
