Summary of Igor Tudor's Team Staff Composition
Igor Tudor has been appointed as the new manager of Juventus. Since the dismissed Thiago Motta is the type of manager who brings his own team, it is highly likely that there will be some turnover in the staff.
There are also rumors that Tudor is recruiting team staff. While it is currently unclear what his staff will look like in the short term until the end of this season, I have researched the staff currently known and the staff compositions at the clubs he has led so far, as far as sources like Transfermarkt allow.
Tudor's major past staff compositions
As Igor Tudor has moved between multiple clubs as a manager, he tends to repeatedly bring along specific trusted Croatian staff members.In particular, Hari Vukas (assistant coach), Jurica Vučko (assistant), Toni Modrić (fitness coach), and Sandro Tomić (goalkeeper coach) have worked together at multiple clubs and have functioned as the "Tudor team."On the other hand, he also shows flexibility in hiring local staff depending on the situation and club circumstances.
Background of major past team staff
🇭🇷Hari Vukas
Hari Vukas (born October 6, 1972) is a former football player and football coach from Split, Croatia. His position during his playing career was forward. He came up through the youth system of HNK Hajduk Split and was promoted to the first team in 1990. He played for clubs both in and outside of Croatia, such as Hajduk and NK Zagreb, recording a total of 57 goals in 159 official matches. After retiring, he began his coaching career in 2013, serving as an assistant coach at his local club Primorac Stobreč before joining the coaching staff of his former club Hajduk Split that same year.
His involvement with Tudor is as follows:
• 2013–2015 Hajduk Split (Assistant)
• 2016–2017 Karabükspor (Assistant)
• 2017 Galatasaray (Assistant)
• 2018 Udinese (Assistant)
• 2019–2020 Hajduk Split (Assistant)
• 2022–2023 Olympique de Marseille (Assistant)
At Hajduk, he was promoted to manager himself after Tudor left, and in recent years he has served as an assistant at Kayserispor in Turkey.
🇭🇷Jurica Vučko
Jurica Vučko (born October 8, 1976) is a former football player (forward) and football coach from Split, Croatia. During his playing career, he was a key player for HNK Hajduk Split for five seasons, after which he played for clubs such as Deportivo Alavés, UD Salamanca, and Poli Ejido in Spain, ending his career at Tianjin Teda in China in 2008. He has made 4 appearances for the Croatian national team. In the 1999-2000 season, he won the Croatian Cup with Hajduk.
His involvement with Tudor is as follows:
• 2013–2015 Hajduk Split (Assistant)
• 2015–2016 PAOK (Assistant)
• 2019–2020 Hajduk Split (Assistant)
He continued to assist multiple managers at Hajduk after that and is still active as a staff member for the club today.
🇭🇷Toni Modrić
Toni Modrić (born January 28, 1988) is a fitness coach (strength and conditioning coach) from Croatia. While he does not have a notable career as a player, he was educated in the field of sports science and later obtained a doctorate (exercise science). He began gaining coaching experience in 2013 as a fitness coach for the Croatia U-17 national team and RNK Split. From 2014 to 2016, he was in charge of the first team at RNK Split as a fitness coach.
His involvement with Tudor is as follows:
• 2016–2017 Karabükspor (Fitness Coach)
• 2017 Galatasaray (Fitness Coach)
• 2019–2020 Hajduk Split (Fitness Coach)
He has gained experience at clubs, national teams, and even foreign clubs, and in recent years has been active at clubs in Turkey and Latvia.
🇭🇷Sandro Tomić
Sandro Tomić was born on October 29, 1972, and is a former goalkeeper from Split, Croatia. During his playing career, he was active at Zagreb, Hajduk, and Debrecen in Hungary, among others, and experienced multiple league titles.
After retiring, he built a career as a goalkeeper coach and has worked with Tudor at the following clubs:
• 2016–2017 Karabükspor (GK Coach)
• 2017–2018 Galatasaray (GK Coach)
Since then, he has served as a goalkeeper coach for the Turkmenistan national team and Kisvárda FC in Hungary, and continues to coach at European club teams today.
Tudor's staff composition by club
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🇭🇷Hajduk Split (2013–2015
Assistant Coaches: Hari Vukas, Jurica Vučko
GK Coaches: Tonči Gabrić → Tomislav Rogić → Sandro Tomić
Fitness Coach: Boris Peyrek
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🇬🇷PAOK (2015–2016)
Assistant Coaches: Ivan Leko, Jurica Vučko
GK Coach: Silvio Čavlina
Physical Coach: Paolo Artico (Italian)
Analyst: Kyriakos Tsitiridis (Greek)
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🇹🇷Karabükspor (2016–2017)
Assistant Coach: Hari Vukas
GK Coach: Sandro Tomić
Physical Coach: Toni Modrić
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🇹🇷Galatasaray (2017)
Assistant Coaches: Hari Vukas, Ayhan Akman (Turkish)
GK Coach: Sandro Tomić
Physical Coach: Toni Modrić
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🇮🇹Udinese (2018, 2019)
Assistant Coaches: Hari Vukas (2018), Jurica Vučko (2019)
*It is presumed that the physical and GK coaches were primarily local staff.
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🇭🇷Return to Hajduk Split (2020)
Assistant Coaches: Hari Vukas, Jurica Vučko
GK Coach: Hrvoje Sunara
Physical Coaches: Toni Modrić, Šime Veršić
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🇮🇹Hellas Verona (2021–2022)
Assistant Coach: Salvatore Bocchetti (Italian)
Primarily composed of existing Italian club staff
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🇫🇷Marseille (2022–2023)
Assistant Coach: Hari Vukas
Physical Coach: Mario Rotondale (Italian)
Analyst: Giuseppe Maiuri (Italian)
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🇮🇹Lazio (2024)
Assistant Coach: Ivan Javorčić
While details of the staff composition are unknown, given that he was appointed mid-season, it is believed he primarily worked with existing Lazio internal staff.
General Overview
Tudor is a manager with the following characteristics:
He is the type of manager who has a "fixed team," with Vukas, Vucko, Modric, and Tomic in particular accompanying him repeatedly across multiple clubs.
Croatian staff form the core, ensuring consistency in tactics, development, and physical conditioning.
On the other hand, he also has the ability to flexibly adjust his staff composition according to club circumstances and league environments, actively incorporating local talent and new coaches in Italy and France.
In cases of emergency appointments or short-term contracts, he tends to keep his accompanying staff to a minimum (e.g., Lazio, first year at Udinese).
In this way, Tudor maintains a management style of "building the optimal team for the situation while centering it around a core of trusted staff."