Cardiff City’s New Assistant Manager:
‘Nikos Karydas’
Karydas was previously a fitness coach:
Eagle-eyed Cardiff City fans thought they spotted a member of Bulut's new backroom staff during Wales' 4-2 defeat by Armenia on Friday night. The camera panned to Bulut in the stands, chatting away to a man donning a baseball cap in the stands.
And that indeed was 'Nikos' Karydas, who was Bulut's fitness coach at Gaziantep. The pair met when Karydas was fitness coach at Olympiacos during Bulut's playing days there.
However, he will take on the role of assistant manager at Cardiff - not fitness coach. It is understood he will be the club's new assistant, 'with a focus on performance' - which is presumably what chairman Mehmet Dalman was alluding to when he said a new performance coach was arriving.
Karydas was most recently caretaker manager at Greek club Veria NPS for three games at the end of the 2022/23 season.
An announcement on the full backroom team is expected soon.
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