Aurélien Chedjou and Valon Behrami were trained by Igor Tudor, respectively at Galatasaray and Udinese, and decipher the method of the future OM coach.
Igor Tudor should succeed Jorge Sampaoli as Olympique de Marseille coach. The 44-year-old Croatian reached an agreement with the Marseille club and his appointment could be formalized as early as Monday, July 4.
If we remember the player Igor Tudor, who made the beautiful players of Juventus and the Croatian selection, the coach Igor Tudor is less known. However, he has already coached six clubs since 2013: Hajduk Split, PAOK Salonika, Karabükspor, Galatasaray, Udinese and Hellas Verona.
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In order to get to know him better, our colleagues from The Team gave the floor to two of its former players: Aurélien Chedjou and Valon Behrami.
An old Ligue 1 acquaintance, Chedjou was coached by Tudor at Galatasaray and describes a demanding and uncompromising coach: “I remember his first speech in the locker room. He told us: “I like Guardiola, but I prefer Diego Simeone, I want a team that pushes and swallows the miles. He told us that we were going to suffer so much that we would not see anything but the training center and our bed, and that’s what happened, we were rinsed when we got home. we. And then he swore only by 3-5-2 when we didn’t have the players for it. We tried to tell him but it didn’t change anything. »
Same story with Behrami. The Swiss midfielder rubbed shoulders with Tudor at Udinese and remembers the burst of energy imposed by his coach: “He always wants things to go forward, with intense and very high pressing, even if it means taking risks. It needs very physical players, because it’s aggressive football that requires excellent condition. Tactically, he does not go into too much detail. He’s not the type to take breaks in the middle of the session to talk and play football teachers. On the contrary, he wants rhythm, rhythm, rhythm. After training, you are sometimes more tired than after a match. »
Renowned for not sparing the stars of his teams (he unceremoniously dismissed Wesley Sneijder at Galatasaray), will Igor Tudor be able to manage the Marseille locker room? Chedjou thinks so because he feels he has improved: “When you have character players and you don’t want to talk to them but only order them, it gets stuck. But I think he can succeed at OM because he has gained experience. I’m sure he’s a good person, that he’s smart enough to have evolved. »