"When waters are choppy, you do not need some ambitious captain with notions of heading out on an adventure. All you really want is someone who can get you safely to shore. Igor Tudor is not keen on the word. Hearing it applied to him when he arrived at Juventus last season, he observed that every manager, everywhere, is living from game to game. You can have a contract for five years and get sent home after three matches, he said."
"He has not allowed any of the previous six to sink. His first full management position was with Hajduk Split, the club with which he began his playing career. There was barely a month left in the season but it ended with Tudor's team winning the Croatian Cup. At Galatasaray, he took over in February 2017 and qualified them for Europe. The following April, he got the call from Udinese, who had lost a club-record 11 consecutive Serie A games."
Igor Tudor often serves as an interim manager and is known for steadying clubs in crisis. He has been hired mid-season by six previous clubs and has prevented each from sinking. His first full management role at Hajduk Split culminated in a Croatian Cup victory despite little time remaining. At Galatasaray he took over in February 2017 and secured European qualification. He rescued Udinese from a club-record 11 consecutive losses and later returned to finish comfortably in 12th. Tudor guided Verona to ninth after key departures and led Lazio to European qualification with five wins and three draws in nine games. Identical results at Juventus returned them to the Champions League.
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