By Reinaldo Oliveros
26 Aug 2024, 08:46 AM EDT
Swedish football coach Sven-Göran Eriksson, former England manager, has died at the age of 76 after a long illness, the Swedish public broadcaster SVT reported on Monday.
“In the end everything happened very quickly. This morning he passed away at home, surrounded by his family,” his agent Bo Gustavsson told SVT.
“Svennis,” as he was known in his country, had revealed last January that he was suffering from incurable pancreatic cancer.
“At best, I have a year left. At worst, a little less,” he said in an interview with public broadcaster Swedish Radio.
Eriksson had left last year, citing health problems, his position as sporting director of the modest Swedish club Karlstad, last stage of a long and fruitful career that began in the late 1970s in his country of origin.
Sven Göran Eriksson’s career
After winning the league and a UEFA Cup with Swedish side Gothenburg, he moved to Benfica, with whom he won three league titles.
After his success in Portugal he moved to Italy, where he developed most of his career in clubs such as Roma, Fiorentina, Sampdoria and Lazio, with whom he won a league, several cups and another UEFA.
Eriksson also played in English football (Manchester City, Leicester) and was the first non-British manager to manage the English national team. He also managed the national teams of Mexico, Ivory Coast and the Philippines, as well as trying out for the Chinese and Thai leagues.
With Mexico, Eriksson was in charge for only 13 games while in charge of El Tri. The Swede managed players such as Andrés Guardado, Rafa Márquez, Pavel Pardo, Giovanni Dos Santos, Guillermo Ochoa, among others.
Eriksson was sacked after a 3-1 defeat to Honduras in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers for South Africa. His record with El Tri was 6 wins, 1 draw and 6 losses.
Since going public with his illness, Eriksson has received several public tributes, both in his home country and in other countries where he has trained, such as the United Kingdom and Italy.
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