Ex-Arsenal keeper Graham Stack named Cardiff City goalkeeping coach

Graham Stack (right) alongside Ben Foster (left) during a brief spell as Watford's interim assistant coach in 2019-20

Former Arsenal goalkeeper Graham Stack has been named goalkeeping coach at Cardiff City.

Cardiff have been without a goalkeeping coach since Andy Dibble departed in May after five years in the role.

Stack, 40, joins Steve Morison's coaching team at the Championship club having left his role as Watford's head of academy goalkeeping last week.

The Bluebirds have also named Patrick Wilson their new head of physical performance.

Stack had been at Watford since 2018, and spent some of his time at Vicarage Road working with the first team.

As a player, he made a handful of appearances for Arsenal before spells at the likes of Millwall, Leeds, Hibernian and Barnet.

"I'm over the moon and excited to be joining Cardiff City as first-team goalkeeping coach," Stack wrote on social media on Tuesday.

"A great club in a beautiful city with an unbelievable fanbase. [I] can't wait to get started."

Wilson has left his head of athletic performance role at English Premiership rugby union club Bath to join Cardiff. He has also worked at Irish rugby team Munster and in Gaelic football in Ireland.

Wilson said: "It's going to be such an exciting, challenging task to prepare a team, physically and physiologically, to go out and be competitive twice a week.

"What I bring is my knowledge of the physical and physiological side of these elite athletes, and ensuring that they are ready to implement the manager's game-plan come competition."