RIP Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948-2024) Swedish football player & manager 🇸🇪 “Don't be sorry, smile, it's been fantastic ” ⚽ (even though we didn't win anything) 🏆
“I had a good life. I think we are all scared of the day when we die, but life is about death as well. You have to learn to accept it for what it is,” he said.
“I hope you will remember me as a positive guy trying to do everything he could do. Don’t be sorry, smile. Thank you for everything, coaches, players, the crowds, it’s been fantastic. Take care of yourself and take care of your life. And live it.” on.ft.com/3WTlyRe
After a football 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 both the UEFA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup (the last edition of the latter trophy before its abolition) and reached the final of the European Cup.
Eriksson later managed the national teams of England, Mexico, 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: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven-Göran_Eriksson
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RIP Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948-2024) Swedish football player & manager 🇸🇪 “Don't be sorry, smile, it's been fantastic ” ⚽ (even though we didn't win anything) 🏆
“I had a good life. I think we are all scared of the day when we die, but life is about death as well. You have to learn to accept it for what it is,” he said.
“I hope you will remember me as a positive guy trying to do everything he could do. Don’t be sorry, smile. Thank you for everything, coaches, players, the crowds, it’s been fantastic. Take care of yourself and take care of your life. And live it.” on.ft.com/3WTlyRe
After a football 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 both the UEFA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup (the last edition of the latter trophy before its abolition) and reached the final of the European Cup.
Eriksson later managed the national teams of England, Mexico, 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: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven-Göran_Eriksson
CC licensed portrait via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/A$sQ