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Sven-Göran Eriksson suffers from incurable cancer.
The trainer icon has less than a year left to live.
Now daughter Lina opens up with heartbreaking words about what the last time is like.
That was at the beginning of the year Sven-Göran Eriksson announced to the outside world that he had suffered from an incurable cancer. The Swedish coaching icon had then received the message that he has around a year left to live.
Svenni’s last time
Since then, the entire football family in Sweden and around the world have gathered in their support for “Svennis” and he has been praised everywhere. The 76-year-old has traveled around to his former clubs such as IFK Gothenburg, Benfica and Lazio and others.
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Svennis has also had to live out a childhood dream of leading Liverpool in a charity match. Now his last period in life is depicted for a television documentary by Prime, and there we get to follow Sven-Göran up close.
– It’s a cancer that won’t go away. I know it’s there, it won’t go away. I feel no pain, but one day it will take me. Before that day comes, live instead of just sitting down and thinking about when and how and it will happen, says the coach profile in the documentary according to Expressen.
– I think we are all afraid of that day when it’s over, when you die. But life is about death too. You have to learn to accept it for what it is.
The daughter tells
Both children Johan and Lina are also included in the TV documentary. Where they get to give their thoughts and feelings about the shock news that came that dad had an incurable cancer.
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Daughter Lina says with heartbreaking words that the hardest thing has been seeing her father get worse and worse every time they meet.
– Every time I come back to the house, I see a difference, it’s a deterioration. And it’s hard to see. He wants to continue the treatment to try to stop the growth of the cancer as much as possible. So for him, all kinds of side effects, challenges, he tries to fight them because he’s so afraid they’ll stop his treatment. It is difficult to imagine a life without him, she says in the TV documentary.
Sven-Göran Eriksson also reveals his last wish about what the family should do with his remains.
– The ashes can be thrown into the water here. It feels like home, he says, looking out over Lake Fryken near his home in Värmland.
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