{"id":5188,"date":"2025-12-19T16:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:21:17","slug":"swansea-city-allen-and-britton-stay-as-maye-medeiros-mendes-and-ricca-join-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5188","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City: Allen and Britton stay as Maye, Medeiros, Mendes and Ricca join staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First-team coach Kristian O&#8217;Leary and head of goalkeeping Martyn Margetson, who were part of former boss Alan Sheehan&#8217;s coaching staff, will remain in their roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Medeiros \u2013 who the club say will arrive in the &#8220;next few weeks&#8221; &#8211; was assistant to Matos at the Portuguese second-tier side, while Mendes is an experienced coach and Ricca is an analyst and coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are very pleased to be able to confirm these appointments and provide further detail on the make-up of our football staff,&#8221; said Swansea chief executive Tom Gorringe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I also want to place on record my thanks to everyone involved in helping us as we advanced through the various required processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As stated previously, this was something that we always knew we would need to go through, and we are delighted to have added this additional support for Vitor ahead of a busy run of fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are also grateful for the continued support of the existing staff in Martyn Margetson and Kris O&#8217;Leary, as well as that of Joe and Leon, which has been invaluable for us as a club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aside from Medeiros, Matos now has his full coaching team in place going into Friday&#8217;s Championship game against Wrexham (20:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c33m28y4jz3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-team coach Kristian O&#038;#8&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}