{"id":302870,"date":"2026-02-26T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/302870\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:34:11","slug":"swansea-roll-out-the-red-carpet-for-their-new-co-owner-snoop-dogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/302870\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea roll out the red carpet for their new co-owner Snoop Dogg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MILAN<\/p>\n

\nSnoop Dogg (L), while attending the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, February 2026.
\nPhoto: ROBIN UTRECHT\n<\/p>\n

American rapper and producer Snoop Dogg received a guard of honour and was greeted with twirling white towels on his first visit to Swansea City since becoming an investor with the Welsh side last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dressed in Swansea’s colours, the 54-year-old took the field ahead of the Championship game against Preston North End through a guard of honour comprising young footballers from Wales, as over 20,000 fans filled the stands.<\/p>\n

The match ended 1-1, with Swansea’s Liam Cullen netting a 95th-minute equaliser.<\/p>\n

Swansea head coach Vitor Matos told reporters that Snoop Dogg had spoken with the players in the dressing room.<\/p>\n

“He’s someone that likes to be involved. He was involved not only with us, but as well with the (US) Olympic team. He really loves sports,” added Matos.<\/p>\n

“It’s good for him to be involved. I’m happy that we have someone like him who loves the club, loves the city, wants to be here.”<\/p>\n

Swansea, who are 14th in the English second tier, face Ipswich Town on Saturday.<\/p>\n

-Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg (L), while attending the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, February 2026. Photo: ROBIN UTRECHT American rapper and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[48,47,156,157,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-302870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}