{"id":234239,"date":"2025-10-30T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234239\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:54:07","slug":"michael-klinger-to-be-new-welsh-fire-women-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234239\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Klinger to be new Welsh Fire Women head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michael Klinger has joined Welsh Fire in a dual role that will see him become head coach of the women&#8217;s team for 2026, as well as helping with recruitment for both the franchise&#8217;s teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 45-year-old Australian joins on a two-year deal, having been head coach of Manchester Originals Women during the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will also retain his role of director of cricket at Washington Freedom in Major League Cricket (MLC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gareth Breese led Welsh Fire Women in their most recent campaign and he will stay on as an assistant coach under Klinger, while Mike Hussey will continue in his role as  men&#8217;s head coach for next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Klinger has joined Welsh Fire in a dual role that will see him become head coach of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-234239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}