Welcome to Wolves: Who is Walter Zenga?
It now becomes clear a safe pair of hands was behind Wolves' thinking in their hunt for a new boss to replace Kenny Jackett.
The head coach was axed last night with new owners Fosun International bringing in their own man,
That person has turned out to be Walter Zenga, a former goalkeeper for Italy who has since gone on to coach all over the world.
It's pretty much a given that Julen Lopetegui, who took charge of the Spain national team instead, was Fosun's first choice for the job.
He, too, was a shot-stopper during his playing days but never reached the heights of Zenga, who was Italy's No 1 for most of the 1980s.
He was nicknamed 'Spiderman,' due to the agility he displayed during his playing days, which started out with his main club Inter Milan in 1982.
His first-team education came through loan spells down the Italian ladder for Salernitana, Savona and Sambenedettese during his first season.
He provided back-up for Ivano Bordon, one of the country's best of his era, after the first-choice left for Sampdoria in the summer of 1983.
Zenga took the jersey for Inter from there and kept it for the next 11 years, where he would really make his name for club and country.
It gathered pace from 1986, after he'd featured as a squad member for Italy at the 1984 Olympic Games and 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
He nearly left Inter before the 1988 European Championships rolled around, to join the then-dominant Napoli. In the end, he stayed put.
At international level, he was now the first choice between the sticks and started every game of that Euros, as Italy went out in the semi-finals.
One blunder came in the first group game against Germany, conceding a free-kick inside the penalty area for too many steps carrying the ball in his hands. Andreas Brehme scored from the set piece.
He would win his first league title in 1989, with a personal accolade for him. He conceded only 19 goals during that campaign, fewer than any other in the division.
His most memorable exploits for Italy came at the 1990 World Cup, where they finished third.
Zenga set a new record for five consecutive clean sheets, a total of 518 minutes without conceding a goal. It's a record that still stands today.
A first European success for the club since the 1960s came in 1991, when Inter claimed the UEFA Cup. These years would be the peak of Zenga's playing days.
He would once more lift the UEFA Cup in 1994, when he would make his exit from the San Siro. He spent two seasons at Sampdoria, before a year at Padova.
He would head overseas for the first time in his career come the summer of 1997, landing at the formative period of the USA's Major League Soccer to join New England Revolution.
His managerial career started with the same outfit in 1999, but he would only last a season. He hung up his gloves, at the same time, to focus on becoming a coach.
He would return home for a short spell with Italian fourth-division side Brera, before going to Romania to take charge of National Bucharest and later Steaua Bucharest.
At the latter, he made them champions and led them to the last 16 of the UEFA Cup, but was sacked at the end of the 2004-05 campaign.
He then spent time in Serbia, bossing Red Star Belgrade to a league and cup double. An offer from Turkey, with Gaziantepspor, followed.
It was not successful, yielding just five wins in 17 league games, before Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates offered an escape route in January 2007.
He was axed after five months, so returned to Romania to take the helm at Dinamo Bucharest. He lasted just two months before he quit.
His first post at a top-flight side in his homeland, with Catania, got him back into the game for the 2008-09 season.
He guided the Eastern Sicilian operation to safety in the next campaign, before surprisingly departing by mutual consent.
A switch to Palermo was another decision that back-fired for him, as he was sacked by the end of November 2009.
He would then go abroad for another four years at the helm of Al-Nassr, Al-Nasr and Al-Jazira in the middle-east.
An exciting challenge came last summer, when he was appointed chief at Sampdoria - the first team in Italy he's bossed and played for.
Again, it went sour, with the decision to replace him made by the end of November. He took charge of UAE outfit Al-Shaab after.
That post, which ended by mutual consent in February, was his last and now Wolves represent his latest adventure. And it will be that.
The 56-year-old father of three also has experience of working as a television pundit and acting in an Italian soap opera. It might serve him well for the dramas to follow at Molineux.
