Overview
Sven-Göran Eriksson
Known For
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Rooney 2004: World At His Feet
Wayne Rooney's definitive coming-of-age story, told by the man himself.
Managing England: The Impossible Job
The trials, tribulations and perpetual disappointments which have beset the...
The Story of the 2006 FIFA World Cup: The Official Film of 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany
The 2006 FIFA World Cup, hosted by Germany, had everything....
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Biography
Sven-Göran Eriksson (5 February 1948 – 26 August 2024) was a Swedish football 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.