{"id":560162,"date":"2020-07-29T13:56:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=560162"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:24:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:24:40","slug":"ellis-iandolo-and-zeki-fryers-sign-new-swindon-town-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/29\/ellis-iandolo-and-zeki-fryers-sign-new-swindon-town-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellis Iandolo and Zeki Fryers Sign New Swindon Town Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swindon Town pair Ellis Iandolo and Zeki Fryers have signed two-year contract extensions at the club. Iandolo, the Robins&#8217; longest-serving player, has been with the club since 2015, while Fryers helped Swindon to the League Two title in his first campaign with the club.<\/p>\n<h2>Ellis Iandolo and Zeki Fryers Signs Swindon Town Extensions<\/h2>\n<h3>Iandolo Remaining as Longest-Serving Player<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">2\u20e30\u20e31\u20e35\u20e3 &#8211; 2\u20e30\u20e32\u20e32\u20e3<\/p>\n<p>\u2b1c\ufe0f\ud83d\udfe5<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ellis_iandolo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ellis_iandolo<\/a> loves <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#STFC<\/a> \ud83d\udfe5\u2b1c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JnmozyhDgm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/JnmozyhDgm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Swindon Town FC (@Official_STFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Official_STFC\/status\/1288149720808923136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Iandolo played his part in helping Swindon return to League One in the first half of the season, playing 17 games before his campaign was cut short by injury.<\/p>\n<p>Despite playing in numerous different positions, he has proved to be most effective at left-back, the same position as Fryers.<\/p>\n<p>Getting both pinned down early on sets Swindon on their way to building a squad capable of, at the very least, staying in League One.<\/p>\n<p>On signing his new deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swindontownfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/july\/iandolo-extends\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iandolo told the club website<\/a>: &#8220;I\u2019m delighted to sign and get everything done. I can\u2019t wait to see what the season brings. It\u2019s been five years at the club now \u2013 I\u2019ve seen a lot of ups and down but the club is 100% moving in the right direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Fryers to Stay<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">First season:<\/p>\n<p>2\u20e32\u20e3 appearances.<br \/>\n1\u20e3 goal.<br \/>\n2\u20e3 assists.<br \/>\n7\u20e3 clean sheets.<\/p>\n<p>1\u20e3 \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Zeki&#8217;s here for two more years \ud83d\udc4a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#STFC<\/a> \ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DRpFW4ABsb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/DRpFW4ABsb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Swindon Town FC (@Official_STFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Official_STFC\/status\/1288508331959545857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After a difficult time early on in his career, playing at big clubs such as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/tottenham\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/crystal-palace\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crystal Palace<\/a>, Fryers finally seems settled having arrived at Swindon just last year.<\/p>\n<p>He scored one goal in 22 League Two appearances to help his side secure the title and proved to be an effective acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>Fryers has League One experience, garnered from the second of his two years with Barnsley under Daniel Stendel, and that will be key to helping Swindon achieve their goals in the 2020\/21 season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p1NBnvtwQTpekAjzkDkYqQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1196992699\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'p1NBnvtwQTpekAjzkDkYqQ',sig:'in7G7cSQno92XTfVaEhU_y7pQLgnaSj9EnkSq9vo3_0=',w:'594px',h:'409px',items:'1196992699',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swindon Town pair Ellis Iandolo and Zeki Fryers have signed two-year contract extensions at the club. Iandolo, the Robins&#8217; longest-serving player, has been with the club since 2015, while Fryers helped Swindon to the League Two title in his first campaign with the club. Ellis Iandolo and Zeki Fryers Signs Swindon Town Extensions Iandolo Remaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":560169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34,30],"tags":[168,6213,188,520,767,136,6212],"class_list":["post-560162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","tag-efl","tag-ellis-iandolo","tag-league-one","tag-league-two","tag-swindon-town","tag-world-football","tag-zeki-fryers"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}