He Swedish coach Sven-Göran Eriksson, 75 years old and with a long and brilliant career in several countries, admitted this Thursday in an interview that he is very sick with cancer and that the forecasts indicate that he has left about 12 months of life.
“In the best of cases, I have a year left. In the worst, a little less,” the prestigious technician, who will resist, said in an interview with the public radio station Sweden Radio. “while I can”. ‘Svennis’, the diminutive by which he is known, confessed that instead of sitting at home “complaining about having bad luck” he prefers to have a “positive” view and not give in to “adversity.”
Extensive career
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Eriksson had left last year, citing health problems, his position as sports director of modesto Swedish club Karlstad, last stage of a long and fruitful career that had begun at the end of the 1970s in his country of origin.
After winning the league and a UEFA Cup with Swedish side Gothenburg, made the leap to Benfica, where he achieved three leagues and from there he went to Italy where he developed most of his career in clubs such as Rome, Fiorentina, Sampdoria and Lazio, with which he won a league, several cups and another UEFA. Eriksson also played in English football (Manchester City, Leicester) and went coach of England, Mexico, Ivory Coast and the Philippines, in addition to trying out in the Chinese and Thai leagues.