croatian football musician and coach

Igor Tudor ( born 16 April 1978 ) is a croatian professional football bus and former player who is presently the head coach of Serie A club Verona. Tudor spent most of his playing career at Juventus, winning several trophies during that time. He was a part of the Croatia national team at UEFA Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup, but missed the 2002 World Cup ascribable to injury. [ 2 ] Tudor announced his retirement on 22 July 2008 at long time 30 after problems with his right ankle reappeared. He spent his final examination season play for his youth club, Hajduk Split.

As coach, he took charge of Hajduk Split from 2013 to 2015, and spend eight months with PAOK in the 2015–16 season. In Turkey, he managed Karabükspor from 2016 to 2017, and Galatasaray in 2017. From April to June 2018, Tudor managed Serie A side Udinese and in that time, saved the cabaret from delegating to Serie B. In March 2019, he came binding to Udinese. After he returned to Hajduk in January 2020, Andrea Pirlo invited Tudor to join his coaching staff at Juventus in August 2020, which offer Tudor accepted .

Club career [edit ]

early years [edit ]

tudor started his professional career at Hajduk Split in 1995 scoring 5 goals in 58 matches, being considered a revelation for his proficiency and ball command above the average of a defender .

Juventus [edit ]

After three personally successful seasons at Hajduk, he was noticed and acquired by italian giants Juventus in 1998. During his time with Juventus, he won the Croatian Player of the Year prize in 2002. [ 3 ] During his eight-year while with the cabaret, Tudor was in excellent form, despite injuries, and formed impressive defensive partnerships with the likes of Paolo Montero, Mark Iuliano, Gianluca Pessotto, Lilian Thuram, Ciro Ferrara, Alessandro Birindelli, Nicola Legrottaglie, Gianluca Zambrotta, Jonathan Zebina, Giorgio Chiellini and Fabio Cannavaro. During the 2000–01 season under Carlo Ancelotti, Tudor had a prolific year, scoring six goals. The watch season, with the reappearance of his early Juventus bus Marcello Lippi, he was occasionally deployed as a midfielder, scoring four crucial goals ( one against turin in the Turin bowler hat, two goals in Juventus ‘ comebacks against Chievo and Hellas Verona and one during the equal against title contenders Internazionale ) in Juventus ‘s successful Serie A title crusade. The follow season, he besides scored a celebrated finish against Deportivo de La Coruña in the death infinitesimal of a second round match of the 2002–03 Champions League, allowing the club to progress to the quarter finals of the competition, en path to the final examination, in which they were defeated by italian rivals Milan on penalties. During this time period, Juventus had one of the strongest teams in the world, and Tudor contributed well, with over 150 sum appearances for the club, scoring closely 20 goals, as a centreback. After a major injury in 2004, however, Tudor was loaned out to Siena in January 2005 after seven seasons with Juve. Following the revocation of Juventus ‘ 2004–05 and 2005–06 Serie A titles due to their participation in the Calciopoli scandal, ampere well as the passing of his loan contract with Siena, Tudor returned to Juventus, staying with the baseball club despite their delegating to Serie B, but injuries kept him off the slope for the wholly season. His contract expired on 30 June 2007. During his time at the cabaret, Tudor won two Serie A titles, two italian Supercups, a Serie B title and a UEFA Intertoto Cup, besides reaching the final of the 2001–02 Coppa Italia and 2002–03 Champions League .

return to Hajduk [edit ]

constantly struggling with injuries and cryptic bacterial contagion of his ankle, Tudor was about forced to end his career in 2007, but in June 2007 he decided to join his former club Hajduk Split after not renewing his contract with Juventus. After a highly timid rehabilitation march his rejoinder was in the match against Zadar on 20 October 2007. This was his foremost official match in over 16 months. however, he was unable to reach his previous human body and his ankle injury problems continued. On 22 July 2008, at the age of 30, he announced his early retirement due to his recurring ankle wound problems .

International career [edit ]

Tudor played for the Croatia national team between 1997 and 2006. He besides won several external caps for the croatian under-17, under-19 and under-21 national teams between 1993 and 2000. tudor made his debut in Croatia ‘s final meet of the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualify, a 1–1 string at Ukraine on 15 November 1997, coming on as a substitute for Aljoša Asanović in the 89th hour. He was subsequently partially of the croatian police squad that finished third gear at the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. At the tournament, he made three appearances as a alternate in the close stages of Croatia ‘s games against Japan, Romania and the Netherlands. After the 1998 World Cup, he made four appearances in the croatian national team ‘s unsuccessful qualify crusade for UEFA Euro 2000, being in the starting line-up on all four occasions. He besides appeared in six matches during Croatia ‘s qualifying campaign for the 2002 World Cup, but missed the final tournament in South Korea and Japan due to an injury. He returned to the national team during the passing stages for Euro 2004, appearing in seven qualifying matches. At the finals in Portugal, he appeared in two of Croatia ‘s three group matches. In his foremost appearance at the tournament, a 2–2 draw against France, he scored an own goal to put the french side 1–0 up halfway through the first half. His second appearance at the tournament came in Croatia ‘s concluding group pit against England, where he scored Croatia ‘s second goal to keep their hopes alive after they found themselves 3–1 down in the second gear half. Frank Lampard, however, soon netted England ‘s fourth goal and Croatia were knocked out of the tournament in the group stage. tudor was besides included in Croatia ‘s 23-man police squad for the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, having appeared in eight qualifying matches for the tournament, scoring two goals. He recorded his first goal of the qualify when he scored Croatia ‘s final examination goal in their 3–0 gain at home to Malta on 30 March 2005. His moment goal of the contest came in Croatia ‘s 3–1 win at Bulgaria on 4 June 2005, when he put Croatia 2–0 up fair over half an hour from meter. At the 2006 World Cup finals, he started all of Croatia ‘s three group matches and played the wax 90 minutes in two of them. Croatia, however, were eliminated from the tournament after a 2–2 draw against Australia in their final examination group match, with Tudor receiving his second yellow poster of the tournament for complaining about the punishment kick from which Australia scored a 1–1 counterweight. He made no far appearances for the national team following the tournament .

style of play [edit ]

tudor was considered one of Croatia ‘s best defenders in the period between the late 1990s and mid-2000s. Tudor was a large, hard-working, potent and imposing defender who excelled in the air, making him a dangerous finish threat during set pieces. [ 4 ] He was besides a rigorous man-marker and a intemperate undertake defender, with great tactical intelligence. [ 4 ] Although chiefly a central defender, he was capable of playing anywhere along the back line and even as a defensive midfielder, which was made possible due to his tactical versatility, stamina, and his surprisingly adequate to technical foul skills, ball restraint and distribution for such a big and forcible player. [ 4 ] Despite his talent, he was besides prone to injuries, which is often thought to have affected his playing career. [ 2 ]

Managerial career [edit ]

Hajduk Split [edit ]

tudor was hired by Hajduk Split in August 2009 to be the adjunct coach to Edoardo Reja who then took commit of the croatian giant. Tudor dramatically increased his managerial cognition during the seven months he spent watching and learning from Reja. In February 2010, Reja took charge of Lazio and because of that Tudor was fired from Hajduk ; he did not join Reja in Italy. In December 2012, Tudor was appointed by Hajduk ‘s sporting film director Sergije Krešić as the raw Hajduk U-17 director. After taking agitate of the U-17 team, he went to spend some time at the Juventus Center in order to improve his managerial skills with Antonio Conte. During his prison term with the U-17 squad, he managed to teach them how to play modern style football using the 3–5–2 formation. They managed to qualify for the U-17 Croatian Cup 2013 final. In April 2013 he was hired as the newfangled Hajduk Split director. He lost his first base away match against RNK Split, but in the 2012–13 croatian Cup concluding first leg he defeated Lokomotiva 2–1 on Poljud. He achieved his first league victory against Osijek on 17 May 2013. He won the 2012–13 croatian Cup after a 5–4 aggregate win against Lokomotiva in the final. On 4 February 2015, Tudor resigned from Hajduk Split after managing the golf club for more than year and nine months. [ 5 ]
Tudor managing Hajduk Split in August 2014

PAOK [edit ]

On 18 June 2015, Tudor was hired as the new coach of PAOK, signing a three-year condense. [ 6 ] He lost 2–1 to Lokomotiva in his debut with PAOK for the second qualify round off of UEFA Europa League. [ 7 ] He was dismissed on 9 March 2016 because of “ abortive results and disparaging comments about the quality of the team ”. [ 8 ]

Karabükspor [edit ]

On 18 June 2016, Tudor was hired as the new director of Karabükspor, signing a annual condense. [ 9 ] After making fantastic results with Karabükspor, Tudor left the club in February 2017 to become the new director of Galatasaray .

Galatasaray [edit ]

On 15 February 2017, Tudor was hired as the new coach of turkish side Galatasaray, signing a one and a half-year compress with the club. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] On 18 December, he was sacked by the golf club. [ 12 ]

Udinese [edit ]

On 24 April 2018, Tudor became the fresh director of italian team Udinese. [ 13 ] His inaugural win with Udinese came on 13 May 2018, in a 1–0 acquire over Verona. [ 14 ] After saving Udinese from delegating to Serie B, on 7 June 2018, Tudor left the baseball club after not making a new deal with the golf club ‘s management. [ 15 ]

tax return to Udinese [edit ]

On 20 March 2019, he became for a second clock, the coach of italian team Udinese. [ 16 ] His first win as Udinese ‘s director came on 30 March 2019, a 2–0 home gain against Genoa. [ 17 ] Following a string of poor results, on 1 November 2019, Tudor was relieved of his managerial duties. [ 18 ]
Tudor during Udinese training session in 2019

reelect to Hajduk Split [edit ]

On 23 December 2019, Hajduk announced that Tudor has been selected as new director. [ 19 ] On 2 January 2020, he formally took his function. [ 20 ] On 2 February, Tudor led his first equal with Hajduk after three and a half years, that The Whites won 3–0 against Varaždin. [ 21 ]

Juventus [edit ]

On 23 August 2020, Tudor resigned from Hajduk Split, [ 22 ] accepting Andrea Pirlo ‘s offer to be his assistant at Serie A side Juventus. [ 23 ] He and Pirlo were sacked at the end of the season following Inter Milan ‘s domesticate of the Serie A title. [ 24 ]

verona [edit ]

On 14 September 2021, Tudor was appointed at the helm of Serie A baseball club Verona in stead of Eusebio Di Francesco. [ 25 ]

career statistics [edit ]

  • 1 Including 1 match in 1998 Supercoppa Italiana and 2 matches in season 1998–99 UEFA Cup qualification.

International [edit ]

managerial [edit ]

As of 22 December 2021[27]
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
Hajduk Split Croatia 29 April 2013 4 February 2015 78 35 21 22 132 105 +27 0 44.87
PAOK Greece 18 June 2015 9 March 2016 45 17 17 11 68 45 +23 0 37.78
Karabükspor Turkey 18 June 2016 15 February 2017 21 8 3 10 27 33 −6 0 38.10
Galatasaray Turkey 15 February 2017 18 December 2017 34

19 4 11 67 47 +20 0 55.88
Udinese Italy 24 April 2018 7 June 2018 4 2 1 1 5 7 −2 0 50.00
Udinese Italy 20 March 2019 1 November 2019 22 9 4 9 23 31 −8 0 40.91
Hajduk Split Croatia 2 January 2020 21 August 2020 18 9 1 8 32 24 +8 0 50.00
Hellas Verona Italy 14 September 2021 Present 17 6 6 5 34 29 +5 0 35.29
Total 239 105 57 77 388 321 +67 0 43.93

Honours [edit ]

player [edit ]

Juventus [ 4 ]
Croatia
Individual

  • Croatian Footballer of the Year: 2001

coach [edit ]

Hajduk Split

References [edit ]