Wrexham fever reaches Santa Clara as Red Dragons touch down to take on Chelsea

SANTA CLARA — Whenever Wrexham AFC is in town, people will be watching – especially when facing an English Premier League titan like Chelsea, which Wrexham will do on Wednesday night during an exhibition match at Levi’s Stadium.

That wasn’t the case less than four years ago, when the Red Dragons were a lowly Welsh soccer team toiling away in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football pyramid. But everything has changed since then.

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