Michael Keith Ricken (born 1970) is an Irish Gaelic football coach and former player. He has experience as a manager at club and inter-county levels. Ricken was announced as manager of the senior Cork county football team, Cork county team for the 2022 season but was forced to step down due to health problems midway through, with John Cleary (Gaelic footballer), John Cleary taking over on an interim basis.

Management career

Ricken's playing career included time as a goalkeeper with the St Vincent's GAA (Cork), St. Vincent's club on the northside of Cork (city), Cork city. It was with his home club that he first moved into coaching, guiding the St. Vincent's intermediate team to Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship, Premier Intermediate Championship successes in 2006 and again in 2012. During that time he also guided the CIT GAA, Cork Institute of Technology to their inaugural Sigerson Cup title. Ricken was appointed manager of the Cork GAA, Cork under-20 football team in January 2019 and guided the team to win the 2019 All-Ireland Under-20 Football Championship in his first season in charge. He also secured two Munster Under-20 Football Championship, Munster U20 Championships. Ricken was ratified as manager of the senior Cork county football team, Cork county team for the 2022 season. He stood aside as Cork senior manager for the remainder of the season in April 2022, due to health problems. John Cleary (Gaelic footballer), John Cleary replaced him.

Honours

;Cork Institute of Technology *Sigerson Cup: 2009 ;St. Vincent's *Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship: 2006 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship, 2006, 2012 Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship, 2012 ;Cork *All-Ireland Under-20 Football Championship: 2019 All-Ireland Under-20 Football Championship, 2019 *Munster Under-20 Football Championship: 2019 All-Ireland Under-20 Football Championship#Munster Under-20 Football Championship, 2019, 2021 All-Ireland Under-20 Football Championship#Munster Under-20 Football Championship, 2021

References

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