‘Reynolds & McElhenney vs Ripa & Consuelos’ – Campobasso owners want Hollywood Derby vs Wrexham

Campobasso FC co-owners Mark Consuelos and Matt Rizzetta want to organise a Hollywood soccer derby towards Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhennie’s Wrexham.

Campobasso have been known as by some sections of the media because the ‘Wrexham of Italy’ resulting from their very own possession’s hyperlinks to America and Hollywood.

Two of the co-owners of Campobasso are actors and Hollywood energy couple Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa, who co-host the ‘Reside with Kelly and Mark’ chat present in the USA.

In late summer time 2022, Campobasso FC was purchased by Matt Rizzetta’s New York-based holding firm North Sixth Group and an funding group backed by American actors and discuss present hosts Mark Consuelos and his spouse Kelly Ripa.

Like Wrexham, Campobasso began within the fifth tier and have loved one thing of a cinderella-like story.

Shopping for the membership eight days earlier than the season began, Campobasso had no coach, no gamers, no CEO, no sporting director and, in accordance with Rizzetta, had “mushrooms rising out of the pitch.”

Regardless of this, Campobasso received the league with the very best purpose distinction in all of Italy, and at the moment are heading in the right direction for successive promotions into Serie C.

Requested if they’d organise a pleasant towards Wrexham, who at the moment are in League 2 within the English soccer pyramid, Consuelos and Rizzetta responded positively.

“I might try this in a second. I believe I ought to attain out to these guys and make the provide, “Consuelos advised The Italian Soccer Podcast.

“Hopefully they get promoted and we get promoted.

“I agree [it would be a commercial hit]. We must always do it. I believe it’s an incredible thought.”

Rizzetta, Campbasso FC’s chairman added: “Mark and I have been speaking about this yesterday and he stated ‘Let’s do it, however we’ve to win’. We’re in it to win it.”

It was then put to Consuelos and Rizzetta that to have a greater likelihood of successful, they need to organise the match in Italy throughout the searing August temperatures as Wrexham’s Welsh gamers would battle to deal with the warmth.

“We might do it in Italy, or in Miami or Florida [for the heat], “laughed Consuelos, who starred in All My Kids, Riverdale and Queen of the South.

Consuelos went on to hail the work of actors Reynolds and McElhenney at Wrexham.

“I believe what these guys have accomplished, not just for Wrexham but additionally for the attention of how European soccer works, I believe they’ve accomplished an incredible job,” he stated.

“You may as well thank Ted Lasso, however most People had no thought about promotion and relegation, and what that meant. And now they do.

“Campobasso and Wrexham are completely different in quite a lot of methods. We’re 100 per cent American-Italian owned so all of us have roots in Italy.

“We undoubtedly know the desserts are higher in Italy than Wales, however I believe there are similarities with the individuals. It’s a hard-working blue-collared area.”