Igor Tudor is back in Italy again. After playing for Juventus and Siena, and coaching Udinese and Verona, as well as assisting Andrea Pirlo at Juventus, the former defender will sit on the Lazio bench. The Rome club confirmed this today and the Italian media state that the contract will be signed until the summer of 2025.The Croat arrives in Rome to replace Maurizio Sarri, who parted company with the Sky Blues after a series of poor results in Serie A, as well as elimination from the Champions League despite winning the first match against Bayern (1-0, then 0-3).##EDITORS_CHOICE##Until the end of the season, Tudor will try to consolidate the team and get some of the positions leading to the international stage, but the task will not be easy. Lazio are currently in ninth place with 43 points, four less than sixth-placed Atalanta, who are in the last position leading into European competitions. With the fact that Serie A will almost certainly get a fifth representative in the Champions League for the next season, which will lead to the lowering of the threshold for obtaining European visas to seventh place, where Napoli are currently with two points more than Lazio.Igor #Tudor è sbarcato a Fiumicino#Lazio pic.twitter.com/siQcQTEh88— Andrea Iustulin (@iuiu87) March 18, 2024 There are still enough games until the end of the season to change the situation in the table of the Italian championship, but certainly another season in the Champions League seems like an impossible mission for Lazio at the moment, because the fourth-placed Bologna has 11 points more while arch-rivals Roma have eight more.The arrival of Igor Tudor in Lazio causes special attention because of Matteo Guendouzi, who is in Rome on loan from Olympique Marseille, paid 1,000,000 euros, but with the option of buying for 13,000,000, plus an additional 5,000,000 euros through bonuses and 10 percent of the next transfer.The Frenchman worked with Tudor at Olympique last season, however, there were a lot of disagreements and public name-calling on both sides, which, among other things, contributed to the Croat resigning at the end of the season, even though they won third place in League 1.##NAJAVA_MECA_7967271##In the course of the season so far, Guendouzi has been among the most important players in Lazio’s team, so it will be interesting to see how the situation will develop after the arrival of Tudor.It is also interesting to note that in the first two games, Igor Tudor will lead Lazio against his former club, Juventus. First on March 30 in the league clash in Rome, and then on April 2 in Turin, in the first leg of the semi-finals of the Italian Cup.
