Serie A team Udinese has lost three of its last four games and is currently under threat of relegation, and Udinese Football Club has also been unable to bear it, deciding to fire coach Theofi and announcing the hiring of legendary Italian defender Cannavaro to coach, and the two sides signed a contract until June 30. "Big Jane" Cannavaro has had mediocre coaching results in the past, and he can't even coach a Serie B team, so it's no wonder that fans ridiculed Udinese for his suicidal appointment this time.
Cannavaro has a glorious professional career, having won the 2006 World Cup with the Italian team, but after he hung up his boots, he spent most of his 10-year coaching career in China, including serving as the head coach of the Chinese team, and only coached for the first time in a European team in September 2022, becoming the head coach of the Serie B team Benevento at that time, but Cannavaro's coaching performance was very poor, and he was fired after less than 5 months of coaching, and Benevento ended up relegated.
Cannavaro has not coached the team for more than 1 year, and has not been the head coach of a Serie A team in the past, Udinese is now on the same point as the third-to-last Frosinoni, and is in dire straits, but Cannavaro is in charge of the leadership, and many fans have hinted that Udinese may want to "apply" for relegation. It is worth mentioning that Cannavaro's younger brother, Paolo Cannavaro, will serve as an assistant coach.
Cannavaro will lead the first strike against Roma in the early hours of Friday (26th) local time, this game was originally played in the early morning of April 15, due to the Roma central defender suddenly collapsed during the game and was sent to the hospital, resulting in the game being cut in half, and the remaining 18 minutes of the game were scheduled to be played in the early morning of Friday (26th).
