Udinese currently leads the Serie A standings. Something that happened 13 years ago: Totò Di Natale scored the goals, and Francesco Guidolin was on the bench when Udinese last achieved the top spot in 2011. The dream lasted the entire season, and Udinese eventually finished third behind Juventus and Milan, earning a spot in the Champions League preliminaries. Today, the alchemist of the new Friulian prodigy is Kosta Runjaic, a German who, despite not knowing anyone in these regions, defeated Aston Villa in the Conference League with Legia Warsaw last season. While the team's number ten is currently a 31-year-old Frenchman who ended up playing in Mexico for Tigres less than two years ago. Florian Thauvin rediscovered himself in Udine, as well as the potential that led him to be a member of the 2018 world champion France. He scored the goals that doomed Parma last Sunday, completely changing the outcome of the match and the league standings for Udinese, who had narrowly avoided elimination in May thanks to Cannavaro. Runjaic, in introducing himself, made fantastic claims: "When President Kennedy claimed in 1958 that man would land on the moon in ten years, no one believed him. In life, we can dream big". For the time being, it works.