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Sven-Göran Eriksson

1948 - 2024

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Sven-Göran Eriksson (Swedish pronunciation: [svɛnˈjœ̂ːran ˈêːrɪkˌsɔn] ; 5 February 1948 – 26 August 2024) was a Swedish football player and manager. After a 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 the UEFA Cup in 1982, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1999, the last edition of the tournament before its abolition, the UEFA Super Cup in 1999, and reached the European Cup final in 1990. Eriksson later managed the national teams of England, Mexico, the Philippines and the Ivory Coast, as well as Manchester City and Leicester City in England. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sven-Göran Eriksson is the 24th most popular coach (down from 18th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 66th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Coach.

Sven-Göran Eriksson is most famous for being the manager of the England national football team from 2001 to 2006.

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Among COACHES

Among coaches, Sven-Göran Eriksson ranks 24 out of 471. Before him are Luiz Felipe Scolari, Rinus Michels, Marcello Lippi, Luis Aragonés, Jürgen Klopp, and Diego Simeone. After him are Sepp Maier, Frank Rijkaard, Arrigo Sacchi, Joachim Löw, Carlos Alberto Parreira, and Manuel Pellegrini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Sven-Göran Eriksson ranks 35. Before him are Marcello Lippi, George Tupou V, Henning Mankell, Patrizia Reggiani, Andrzej Sapkowski, and Antonín Panenka. After him are Sauli Niinistö, Keke Rosberg, Steven Tyler, Yoshihide Suga, Elizabeth Blackburn, and Alice Cooper. Among people deceased in 2024, Sven-Göran Eriksson ranks 26. Before him are Ram Narayan, Hassan Nasrallah, Akira Toriyama, Françoise Hardy, Louis Gossett Jr., and Arnold Rüütel. After him are Paul Alexander, Thomas P. Stafford, Roger Guillemin, Jim Simons, Leon Cooper, and Herbert Kroemer.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sven-Göran Eriksson ranks 77 out of 1,879. Before him are Tomas Lindahl (1938), Dolph Lundgren (1957), Gunnar Myrdal (1898), Charles VIII of Sweden (1409), Charles XI of Sweden (1655), and Magnus I of Sweden (1106). After him are Carl Larsson (1853), Marie Taglioni (1804), Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981), Keke Rosberg (1948), Alva Myrdal (1902), and Stellan Skarsgård (1951).

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Among COACHES In Sweden

Among coaches born in Sweden, Sven-Göran Eriksson ranks 1. After him are Lars Lagerbäck (1948), Tommy Svensson (1945), Erik Hamrén (1957), Roland Nilsson (1963), and Malin Levenstad (1988).

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