On the evening of April 22, Beijing time, Udinese, a veteran powerhouse in Serie A, officially announced that the 50-year-old Italian legend Fabio Cannavaro was officially appointed as the team's new coach. The two parties will sign a contract for two months until June 30, 2024. Cannavaro will lead the team for the remainder of the Serie A season.
Born in 1974, Cannavaro played as a centre-back as a player and led the Italian men's football team to the 2006 World Cup, where he also won the Ballon d'Or. After retiring in 2011, Cannavaro came to the Chinese Super League as the executive coach of Guangzhou Evergrande, and in February 2015, Lippi resigned as the coach of Guangzhou, and Cannavaro officially became the head coach of Guangzhou. In June of the same year, Cannavaro left class.
Since then, Cannavaro has briefly left the Chinese Super League to coach Cristiano Ronaldo's Riyadh Victory team in Saudi Arabia. In June 2016, Cannavaro returned to China to take over Tianjin Quanjian, and in November 2017, Cannavaro resigned as coach of Quanjian and re-entered Guangzhou Evergrande as coach, and he led the team to win one Chinese Super League championship.
In addition, Cannavaro also briefly acted as the coach of the national football team, and in the two China Cup matches, Cannavaro led the team to lose 0-1 to Thailand and 0-1 to Uzbekistan. On September 28, 2021, the Guangzhou team terminated the contract with Cannavaro. One year later, the boss returned to Italy as coach of Benevento in Serie B. However, less than 5 months into office, Cannavaro was sacked by the team after leading the team to a poor record of only 3 wins, 7 draws and 7 losses.
Now, Cannavaro is back in the mountains after a year and is coaching a Serie A team for the first time. However, at present, Udinese only has 28 points after 32 rounds, and has one game less to share with Frosinone in the relegation zone. It is obviously not easy for Ka Shuai to lead the team to complete the relegation goal.