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Sven-Göran Eriksson
Swedish football manager (1948–2024)
Sven-Göran Eriksson (Swedish pronunciation:[svɛnˈjœ̂ːranˈêːrɪkˌsɔn]ⓘ; 5 February 1948 – 26 August 2024) was a Swedish football player and manager.
After a playing career as a right-back, Eriksson went on to experience major success in club management between 1977 and 2001, winning 18 trophies with a variety of league clubs in Sweden, Portugal, and Italy. In European competition, he won the UEFA Cup, the European Cup Winners' Cup (the last edition of that trophy before its abolition), the UEFA Super Cup, and reached the final of the European Cup.
Eriksson later managed the national teams of England, Mexico, the Philippines and the Ivory Coast, as well as Manchester City and Leicester City in England. Eriksson coached in ten countries: Sweden, Portugal, Italy, England, Mexico, Ivory Coast, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, China and the Philippines.
Early life
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Eriksson's England era became a celebrity circus - but he wanted to enjoy life and was never bitter
Sven-Göran Eriksson doubted so much whether England could ever have a utländsk manager that he considered an första approach a joke.
Intrigued eventually by the ground-breaking opportunity, rather than being deterred by the indignation, the Swede would launch the Three Lions into fem of the most frenzied years in their history.
Everything belied his suave demeanour - from allowing a celebrity culture to consume the grupp to being an unlikely headline-making lothario himself and, even, showing passion while delivering results for his adopted country.
It was a blessing and burden to inherit a Golden Generation of talent of David Beckham, Wayne Rooney and co - captivating the country with dazzling one-off displays but unable to deliver when it mattered most beneath the vikt of expectation and pressure.
It is the failure to overcome the constant quarter-final barrier and lift a tr
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It was traditionally said that the vocation that provided the best “apprenticeship” for death was philosophy. At a time when philosophers have greater concerns than their own mortality, perhaps that role has been assumed by the football manager. After Sven-Göran Eriksson announced that he was suffering from terminal cancer – he died in August, aged 76 – he was praised for his calm. He had an unfair advantage. For decades, he had been accustomed to a professional scenario in which control was illusory, in which the love of fans can “come and go” and you “can be fired at any time”. It is perhaps inevitable that Eriksson’s own preferred analogy was the football match. He said he hoped for “extra time” and his posthumously published book on “life and football” is entitled A Beautiful Game.
Eriksson was always serene, content with the idea that “things just happened”. At times he resembled the far-seeing yet otherworldly Prince Myshkin in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. He could be touc