hugging it out. good morning, everyone! that was a hollywood ending for rexham and the team s owners. after years of struggling, the welsh soccer club has achieved its dream of a major promotion. look at that. tears. wow, wow, congratulations to them. we ll talk more about that. plus, president biden set to name a campaign manager as he prepares to run for re-election, but new polls are showing that many americans are not excited about a trump/biden rematch. also, the faa is investigating after engines caught fire on two different american airlines planes. but we re going to start in sudan this morning, where the u.s. has now launched a daring rescue operation to evacuate americans from the war zone. the pentagon says that special ops forces blew into flew into the war-torn sudanese capital and helicopters to pick up u.s. diplomats and their families. we re told the mission was fast, it was clean, and u.s. troops were on the ground for less than an hour. here s a ph
the number one sport on the planet, we don t have to waste time debating that, the beautiful game in a country full of sports and sports fans that consume an incredible amount of sports, ted lasso and this story is opening up, i think, one of the coolest parts of soccer as it exists as an entrant sport. this idea of promotion relegation. this idea of a team playing in not even what s called the football league. right? they re outside of the professional side of the table. to be able to win and climb the rung and get up to the level where you can play in manchester united and against these teams. that s cool part of this story, the sporting meritocracy of promotion relegation as it exists over there? what about paul mullen. 47 goals this season? that s the other thing. the last time we had this conversation is when lester went you ll remember that story years ago, where they went and won the premiere league. that was a team that went
mcelenani celebrated with a long embrace. the two actors bought the club in 2021, documented their story in the fx documentary story welcome to wrexham. the teeam s popularity in the united states has skyrocketed. espn 2 even televising some of its games, and this summer wrexham is coming to america to face two of the biggest clubs in the sport, manchester united and chelsea. with us, tnt/hbo soccer analyst and former men s midfielder, kyle martino. paul rudd filmed that after 12 pints, too. what a day they had. his camera work was very good. is this a ted lasso moment for these guys? it s kind of to get here is crazy. it s interesting you say that. i think that ted lasso is probably going to be studied in harvard sociology courses at one point, the inflection point that