{"id":618183,"date":"2022-09-25T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=618183"},"modified":"2022-09-25T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T19:10:50","slug":"oxford-united-international-fixtures-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/25\/oxford-united-international-fixtures-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: International Fixtures Following Fleetwood Town Postponement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/18\/oxford-united-defeats-international-call-ups\/\" target=\"_self\">Oxford United<\/a> seeing their match against Fleetwood Town postponed due to international call-ups, this is a fairly brief weekly round-up. However, there is still news.<\/p>\n<h2>Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: International Fixtures Take Centre Stage<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was an early start for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/oufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#oufc<\/a> as they began the day with a photo shoot at Blenheim Palace.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/noo9eccdWl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/noo9eccdWl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YxWGkkzoYI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/YxWGkkzoYI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oxford Mail OUFC (@OxfordMailOUFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OxfordMailOUFC\/status\/1572180035796074497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Return for Former Backroom Staff<\/h3>\n<p>Chris Short has returned to the club for a second spell in Oxford&#8217;s sports science department.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old, who left to join Middlesbrough at the end of the 2020\/21 season, will work with the club on a short-term basis, initially until Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oufc.co.uk\/news\/2022\/september\/chris-short-rejoins-oxford-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speaking to the club&#8217;s official website<\/a>, he said: &#8220;I left for family reasons initially and then worked at Middlesbrough for a while but I have always been in touch with everyone at Oxford and obviously with my brother (Craig) still involved I had been back to watch a few times as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club has a really strong set-up in terms of sports science with Chris Neville leading that side of things and Harry Routledge working day to day with the players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m really looking forward to working with them both and with the whole coaching team. I will be around the club in the week but will leave matchdays to others, but hopefully, I add to the mix and can contribute in a positive way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like the way there is a \u2018one club\u2019 philosophy and I have been really enjoying working with the women\u2019s team. They are off to a great start and long may that continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great club with some wonderful people behind the scenes and I have been made to feel welcome again straight away.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Jodi Jones Makes Malta Debut<\/h3>\n<p>Summer signing Jodi Jones made his international debut as Malta lost 2-1 at Estonia in their Nations League clash.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old played the first 45 minutes in Tallinn, despite completing just six minutes of League One football for the U&#8217;s this season.<\/p>\n<h3>Brown Unused Substitute for Northern Ireland<\/h3>\n<p>Elsewhere, Oxford defender Ciaron Brown failed to make an appearance as Northern Ireland beat Kosovo in their Nations League match.<\/p>\n<p>The summer signing, who started the last three international fixtures, saw his side win 2-1 at Windsor Park with former U&#8217;s winger Gavin Whyte netting a 93rd-minute winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Oxford United seeing their match against Fleetwood Town postponed due to international call-ups, this is a fairly brief weekly round-up. However, there is still news. Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: International Fixtures Take Centre Stage It was an early start for #oufc as they began the day with a photo shoot at Blenheim Palace.https:\/\/t.co\/noo9eccdWl pic.twitter.com\/YxWGkkzoYI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":618184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[8430,32,34],"tags":[9165,4918],"class_list":["post-618183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-league-football","category-league12","tag-ciaron-brown","tag-jodi-jones"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618183","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\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}