Sven-Goran Eriksson
Swedish football player and manager
Died when: 76 years 203 days (918 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Sven-Göran Eriksson (Swedish pronunciation: [sv?n'jœ^?ran 'ê?r?k?s?n]; born 5 February 1948) was a Swedish football manager and former player.
After an unassuming 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; he became the first manager to win league-and-cup doubles in three countries.
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 two clubs in England.
Eriksson has coached in ten countries: Sweden, Portugal, Italy, England, Mexico, Ivory Coast, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, China, and the Philippines.