Former England supervisor Sven-Goran Eriksson has handed away on the age of 76.
Eriksson revealed in January 2024 that he had been identified with terminal most cancers and predicted he had “at greatest” 12 months left to dwell.
“After a protracted sickness, SGE died throughout the morning at house surrounded by household,” an announcement learn. “The closest mourners are daughter Lina; son Johan with spouse Amana and granddaughter Sky; father Sven; girlfriend Yanisette with son Alcides; brother Lars-Erik with spouse Jumnong.
“The household asks for respect for his or her want to mourn in non-public and never be contacted.”
Within the wake of Eriksson’s revelation, he confessed that one of many largest regrets of his profession was by no means getting the possibility to handle Liverpool, who caught wind of the Swede’s want and invited Eriksson to take change of a charity pleasant involving membership legends at Anfield in March 2024.
Eriksson described the expertise as a “reminiscence for all times” because the Anfield crowd’s rendition of You may By no means Stroll Alone moved him to tears.
After a brief enjoying profession in his native Sweden, Eriksson transitioned to teaching with Degerfors and Goteborg. His success with the latter within the 1981/82 UEFA Cup earned him the job as Benfica supervisor, profitable two league titles in as many seasons earlier than heading to Roma.
Spells with Fiorentina, Sampdoria and Lazio adopted, as did a return to Benfica, earlier than Eriksson turned the primary international supervisor within the historical past of the England nationwide workforce in 2001.
Eriksson took England to the 2002 and 2006 World Cups and Euro 2004, main the Three Lions as excessive as fourth in FIFA’s international rankings. England have been seventeenth on the time of his arrival.
He would go on to steer Manchester Metropolis, Mexico, the Ivory Coast, Leicester Metropolis, Guangzhou R&F, Shanghai SIPG, Shenzhen and the Philippines earlier than a transition to extra back-room work was dropped at an finish by his sickness in February 2023.
