Sven-Göran Eriksson, considered Sweden’s best football coach, has died.
14:26•Updated 14:42
Regarded as Sweden’s best football coach Sven-Göran Eriksson has died. The news was confirmed by Erikson’s agent Bo Gustavssonaccording to which the coach’s condition deteriorated rapidly.
– The end came quickly, and this morning he slept off at home surrounded by his family, Gustavsson said For the Swedish public broadcasting company SVT.
– He didn’t walk or go outside much. But she kept her spirits up, never complained, stayed positive.
Eriksson, 76, said in January that he was suffering from incurable pancreatic cancer. At that time, he believed that he would have about a year left to live at best.
Eriksson started his coaching career already at the age of 30 in the late 1970s. He moved abroad through Degerfors and IFK Göteborg. After that, he coached outside of Sweden until 2019.
At the club team level, he managed, among others, Benfica, AS Roma, Sampdoria, Lazio, Manchester City, Leicester and, in the 2010s, several Chinese clubs. Achievements include winning the Uefa Cup (now the Europa League) with Gothenburg, several Portuguese championships with Benfica and the Italian championship with Lazio.
Among the national teams, Svennis coached England, Mexico, the Ivory Coast and the Philippines. Pesti in the England national team is the crown of Eriksson’s career – from 2001 to 2006 he was the head coach of the “Three Lions”, the first non-British.
During Eriksson’s era, England reached the quarterfinals of the 2002 and 2006 World Cups and the 2004 European Championship.