Sven-Goran Eriksson: Charismatic Swedish football coach who coached four national teams, including England and Mexico, dies
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Swedish football coach Sven-Goran Eriksson died of cancer on Monday at the age of 76, his family said.
Eriksson managed the England national team between 2001 and 2006. During this time, he led the team to the quarter-finals of the 2002 and 2006 World Cups and the 2004 European Championship. He was the first non-British manager to manage the England national team.
He then coached Mexico from 2008 to 2009, but failed to lead the team to qualification for the World Cup in South Africa.
Throughout his life, he also coached the Ivory Coast and the Philippines, as well as a dozen other clubs.
“I had the best job in the world and I was happy every day for a long time. It was fantastic,” Eriksson told his children after learning in January this year that his diagnosis gave him a maximum life expectancy of one year.
Before becoming a coach, Eriksson spent a decade playing professional Swedish football.
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