Most lower-division soccer clubs are run on a shoestring budget. Salaries are normally poor and the infrastructure — locker rooms, playing fields — even poorer.
But when you’re a lower-division soccer club owned by two Hollywood heavyweights, what’s normal doesn’t apply. And that explains how the Wrexham men’s team, newly promoted to League One, the third tier of the English football pyramid, and the women’s team, which finished third in the semi-pro Adran Premier league last season, find themselves spending part of their preseason touring the U.S., a perk generally reserved for massive clubs such as Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United.