Sven-Göran Eriksson

Sven-Göran Eriksson
Sven-Göran Eriksson.jpg
Eriksson, as Man City manager, commemorating the Munich Air Disaster at Old Trafford.
Personal information
Full name Sven-Göran Eriksson
Date of birth 5 February 1948 (1948-02-05) (age 63)
Place of birth Sunne, Sweden
Height 5 ft 10 in
Playing position Right back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1966–1971 Torsby IF 109 (23)
1971–1972 SK Sifhälla 22 (1)
1972–1973 KB Karlskoga 19 (4)
1973–1975 Västra Frölunda IF 50 (5)
Teams managed
1977–1978 Degerfors
1979–1982 Göteborg
1982–1984 Benfica
1984–1987 Roma
1987–1989 Fiorentina
1989–1992 Benfica
1992–1997 Sampdoria
1997–2001 Lazio
2001–2006 England
2007–2008 Manchester City
2008–2009 Mexico
2009-2010 Notts County (director of football)
2010 Ivory Coast
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Sven-Göran Eriksson (Swedish pronunciation: [svɛnˈjœːran ˈeːrɪksɔn]  ( listen); born 5 February 1948), in Sweden commonly referred to just by his nickname Svennis,[1] is a Swedish football manager.

Eriksson was a Swedish football player whose playing career was ended by injury in 1975. He went on to become a successful club football manager from 1978 to 2001, in the Swedish, Portuguese and Italian top football divisions, most notably with Italian club Lazio. During this time Eriksson achieved several national league, domestic cup and three notable UEFA competition wins. With his achievements in this period, Eriksson is so far the only manager who has achieved the league-and-cup double in three different countries (Sweden, Portugal and Italy). From the Lazio job onwards he has consistently employed fellow Swede Tord Grip as his assistant at all clubs and national teams he has managed.

On leaving Lazio, Eriksson controversially became the first foreign manager of the English national team, succeeding Kevin Keegan in 2001. He had a relatively long spell as England manager, managing the team for two World Cups and Euro 2004 in between. While being steadily and repeatedly supported by the Football Association and the players and fans, and having attained an exceptional overall statistical record with England and losing an all time record of only five competitive games 2001 - 2006, it was announced in January 2006 that Eriksson would step down after the World Cup in that June, which England subsequently exited at the quarter-final stage in a dramatic game in which Wayne Rooney was given a red card and the remaining ten players continued for an hour and produced a draw forcing a penalty shoot out that saw them defeated. The announcement that Eriksson was to depart from the job as England team coach was met with extensive protests and a "Save Our Sven" campaign from the Official England Fan organisation backed by several British national newspapers.

After a year out of the game, in July 2007 Eriksson agreed to a three-year contract with the recently taken over top-flight but struggling English club Manchester City[2] worth £2 million a year plus bonuses[3], agreed with their wealthy new Thai owner Thaksin Shinawatra. After a good start to the season that saw the club briefly at the top of the premier league for the first time in three decades and win "the double" against Manchester United, and with his early signings creating an impact, it was announced by many news sources that in a surprise move, Shinawatra claimed that he wished to replace Eriksson in May 2008 after only one full season, because of an "avalanche of very poor results which is unacceptable at this level". This ignored the fact that Eriksson had produced an all time (joint) record of season league points won and the best results since the 1970's, lifting the club to a final position of 9th in the premier league in spite of the players on field protest and non-performance in the closing games. On 2 June 2008 and in spite of a players "work to rule" that had disastrous effect on the last few results, a fans protest march to the clubs Eastland stadium and yet another extensive "Save Our Sven" campaign, Eriksson officially left Manchester City. On 3 June 2008, he was officially signed to become the manager of the Mexican national team against the advice of his closest business associates who warned of "deep divisions within the Mexican Football Federation" and an "underlying potential xenophobia among players and fans" and despite the mass protests by the Mexican fans that preceded his appointment. He was sacked on 2 April 2009. Immediately afterwards, the Mexican fans' association held a "victory rally" attended by approximately 30,000 angry supporters.[4] Eriksson was Director of Football at English League Two team Notts County from July 2009 to February 2010, attracted by a Middle East consortium which claimed to seek to take the club to the top of the Premiership. Sven-Goran Eriksson was appointed Ivory Coast coach for the 2010 World Cup finals. "His mission will be to lead Ivory Coast team during the World Cup and to make sure it fares honourably, which will be difficult in a competition featuring the world's best 32 sides." Senior members of the Ivory Coast team commented that Eriksson had "worked miracles" in the short time with the squad and commented with disappointment that they could not keep him to ensure further progress. Sven-Goran Eriksson is unique in leading one team (Mexico) to qualify and another team (Ivory Coast) during a World Cup tournament. He has since been linked to the vacant manager's position at English Premier League side Aston Villa [5]

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Playing career

Born in Sunne and raised in Torsby, in Värmland, Eriksson had an unremarkable playing career playing as a right-back in the lower divisions of Swedish football.[6] The highest level he played at was Division 2 with Karlskoga, where he met Tord Grip, before being forced into an early retirement due to a knee injury in 1975 aged 28.[7]

Management career

Degerfors

After retirement, Eriksson received an offer to become Tord Grip's assistant at Degerfors.[8] A year later, Grip was appointed assistant manager of the Swedish national team, and Eriksson became Degerfors' manager, winning promotion to Division 2 in 1978.

Göteborg

His success with assistant manager Tom Chadney by his side attracted the attention of much larger clubs, and Eriksson joined Göteborg in 1979. He won the Swedish Cup in his first season, and a "treble" of League, Cup and UEFA Cup (Göteborg beating Hamburg 4–0 in the final) in 1982.

Benfica

Eriksson's European success led to him being head-hunted by Portuguese club Benfica, and he had a similarly quick impact there, Benfica winning the Portuguese Championship, the Portuguese Cup and finishing runners-up in the UEFA Cup. After a second Championship the following year, Eriksson moved on to Italy, becoming trainer of Roma.

Roma

He was not as immediately successful at Roma as he had been before, but he still won a Coppa Italia in 1986.

Fiorentina and return to Benfica

After a trophyless two years at Fiorentina, Eriksson moved back to Benfica for a second stint in 1989, where he led the Portuguese side to the final of the European Cup (losing to Milan 1–0) in 1990, and another League title in 1991.

Sampdoria

In 1992 Eriksson returned to Italy to try his luck again, with Sampdoria, where he managed to win another Coppa Italia in 1994.

Lazio

In 1997, he agreed to leave Sampdoria at the end of the season to manage Blackburn Rovers. However, later on that year, he went back on his word and opted to stay in Italy and become the new manager at Lazio. Eriksson stated personal family reasons for wanting to stay in Italy. Rovers eventually appointed Roy Hodgson. Eriksson finally found major success in Italy with Lazio when he won the Coppa Italia and the Italian Supercup in 1998 and 2000, the European Cup Winners' Cup (1999 – the very last tournament), and the Serie A title (the Scudetto) in 2000 — only the second time that the Roman club had won the Italian championship in their history. That season had begun with glory in the UEFA Super Cup, winning 1–0 against Manchester United. Bankrolled by Sergio Cragnotti's investment in the team – some £274 million in over 4 seasons – Eriksson amassed trophies on a remarkable scale, and because of this many fans consider him to be Lazio's most successful manager ever.

England manager

World Cup 2002

Following the resignation of England manager Kevin Keegan after a home loss to Germany in October 2000, the Football Association specifically pursued Eriksson as his replacement. Eriksson had initially agreed to take over after the expiration of his contract in summer 2001, but decided to resign his post at Lazio early, and he officially began his England duties in January of that year. Eriksson was the first foreign manager to be appointed coach of the England national team.

Eriksson turned round England's bid for qualification for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, with several crucial wins over lesser opposition before his first real test, England's rematch with Germany in Munich on 1 September 2001. England crushed their long-time rivals 5–1. Despite this England still needed a late equalizer at home to Greece to automatically qualify, and England's initially strong performance in the 2002 World Cup (when in a group stage with Nigeria, Argentina and Sweden) finals culminated in a 2–1 quarter finals loss to 10-man Brazil, who subsequently went on to win the tournament.

Euro 2004

After winning their first qualifying match in Slovakia, England drew at home with Macedonia and were then booed off by their fans after losing a friendly to Australia.[9] However England won their next five qualifiers and, needing a point from the last game to qualify, drew 0–0 in Turkey to top the group.

In their first match in the finals, England were winning 1–0 against France after 90 minutes but lost after Zinédine Zidane scored twice in injury time. However, a 3–0 victory over Switzerland and a 4–2 victory over Croatia meant England still qualified for the quarter-finals, where they lost to the hosts Portugal on penalties, but Sol Campbell had a goal controversially disallowed in normal time with the score at 1–1.

World Cup 2006

On 7 September 2005, Eriksson's England team lost a World Cup qualifying match against Northern Ireland 1–0, the first time that England had lost to that team since 1972. Although it was only Eriksson's first ever defeat in a World Cup or European Championship qualifying match, it brought his position under unprecedented pressure and he was criticized, both by some fans and by BBC commentators, for his lack of charisma and tactical awareness. Criticism continued as England scraped a 1–0 victory over Austria in a game which saw David Beckham controversially sent off. Some of this criticism was answered, however, as England put in a much improved performance, despite the absence of Beckham through suspension and Sol Campbell and Steven Gerrard through injury, in a 2–1 win against Poland.

In 2006, he was recorded saying he would be willing to leave England to manage Aston Villa if England won the World Cup, after being duped into believing that a wealthy Arab would buy the club and wanted him as manager. The wealthy "Arab" was in fact the Mazher Mahmood, an undercover News of the World reporter.

On 23 January, the Football Association announced that Eriksson would leave his job after the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and it was thought that the News of the World allegations played a part in this decision.[10] This was later denied by both parties with Eriksson explaining that there was a prior arrangement to terminate his contract immediately after the World Cup. Following a lengthy period of public and media speculation as to his successor the FA later announced that Steve McClaren, Eriksson's assistant, would take over the reins after the World Cup.

The week before England's first game in Germany, England beat Hungary 3–1 and Jamaica 6–0 at home.

England were unbeaten after the group stage of the tournament, with wins against Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago, followed by a draw against Sweden. The manner of these results were considered to be far from satisfactory.[11] Eriksson attracted further negative media attention as a consequence.

A David Beckham trademark free kick was enough to see Eriksson's England past Ecuador in a lacklustre 1–0 encounter. However, Eriksson once again fell to nemesis Luiz Felipe Scolari's Portugal. They defeated England 3–1 on penalties with the score 0–0 after extra time, with Beckham lost to injury and Wayne Rooney sent off for stamping on Ricardo Carvalho. The result was Eriksson's third successive exit in a major tournament quarter-final. In his farewell speech, Eriksson wished England well and singled out Rooney for special praise, advising the press not to blame the youngster's dismissal for England's exit.

During his time as England manager Eriksson, who was nicknamed "Sven" by the English, was constantly in the public eye due to various affairs whilst dating his then partner Nancy Dell'Olio. The women with whom he had affairs were famous Swedish television presenter Ulrika Jonsson and his secretary at the Football Association (FA), Faria Alam, who incidentally also had sexual relations with FA chief executive Mark Palios.

Notable feats as England manager

(highest ranking No.4 during World Cup 2006)

Eriksson is the only England manager never to have led an England team out at their permanent home venue of the old Wembley Stadium or the new Wembley Stadium. Wembley was closed for redevelopment the same month that the FA asked him to take over, October 2000, and he resigned before the new Wembley Stadium was opened. Note that he didn't begin duties until January 2001.

Manchester City

Eriksson leading the Manchester City side out at Old Trafford

In July 2007, virtually a year to the day that he left the England job, Eriksson was confirmed as the new manager of Manchester City after signing a three-year contract (Manchester City's first manager from outside of the UK).[13] His first signing was Italian striker Rolando Bianchi from Reggina for £8.8 million. Bianchi was soon joined at the club by Swiss Under-21 international Gelson Fernandes from Sion, Brazilian midfielder Geovanni from Cruzeiro, and Bulgarian winger Martin Petrov from Atlético Madrid. He also signed Croat Vedran Ćorluka from Dinamo Zagreb, Spaniard Javier Garrido from Real Sociedad and Brazilian Elano from Shakhtar Donetsk. He was successful in his first match, defeating West Ham United 2–0 at Upton Park. During Manchester City's next game, they scored their first home goal in 288 days (since 1 January 2007), to take all three points from a newly promoted Derby County.

On 19 August, Manchester City won the first Manchester derby under Eriksson with a 1–0 win over league champions Manchester United with a goal from one of Sven's summer signings, Geovanni, taking City to the top of the Premier League, with 9 points and having conceded no goals. Manchester City lost their first match on 25 August, a 1–0 loss to Arsenal. On 10 February 2008, Eriksson's Manchester City once again beat Manchester United, this time at Old Trafford, beating them 2–1.

Guiding Manchester City to second place in the Premier League, Eriksson earned himself the Premier League's Manager of the Month award for August. During September 2007, City enjoyed a further two wins at home, whilst winning one point in two matches playing away from home. Meanwhile, Eriksson led the club to the fourth round of the Carling Cup, beating Norwich City at Eastlands by 1–0.

After mentoring Manchester City's best season for decades, the team announced that they would go on strike against the threat that club owner Thaksin Shinawatra would sack Eriksson if he did not allow greater intervention in tactics and strategy from the Thai. Eriksson rejected any interference but also persuaded his players against potentially damaging their careers by an all out strike. In the last game of the season, Manchester City suffered an 8–1 loss to Middlesbrough F.C.; the biggest defeat of Eriksson's career and an unprecedented season result that led many to conclude that the team had conformed with Eriksson's advice but had "gone on strike" as a symbolic protest during the game.[14] Manchester City ended in 9th place in the league, one place away from the UEFA Cup 2008–09 qualifying positions. Manchester City subsequently qualified through the extra place awarded to the Premier League for finishing as the highest placed team (who hadn't already qualified for a European competition) in the UEFA Fair Play League for 2007–08.

Eriksson became the first Manchester City manager since 1969–70 to win both league derby games against Manchester United and also achieved the joint highest Premier League point total in the club's history.

The announcement that Eriksson's contract was to be terminated resulted in an outcry from Manchester City fans who coordinated an SOS ("Save Our Sven") campaign (similar to the Official England Fan's campaign in the spring of 2006) including a well attended march from the City centre to Eastlands stadium and a flood of letters to the club and the Manchester Evening News. The failure to react to public and fan demands resulted in high volume of fans cancelling or not renewing their season tickets.

Mexico national football team

On 2 June 2008, Manchester City confirmed by club statement that they had parted company with Eriksson by "mutual consent", with Eriksson still having two years left on his contract.[15] He was appointed as manager of Mexico a day later,[16] though he did not formally start the role until after Mexico's World Cup qualifier against Belize on 21 June.[17]

On 20 August 2008, he debuted as manager of the Mexican National team in a CONCACAF world cup qualifier versus Honduras. Mexico went on to win 2–1. On the next matches some results were poor, as Mexico tied with Canada and lost to Jamaica and Honduras.

On 11 February 2009, Eriksson was put under further pressure as his side lost 2–0 to the United States. Calls for him to quit or be sacked were heard from the fans while the English club Portsmouth were rumoured to be interested in making him their new manager. This link was strengthened by reports of members from the Portsmouth board flying to Mexico City to discuss contract offers with Eriksson and a possible compensation settlement with the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación. In early March, Eriksson continued to deny that he would leave Mexico and return to manage Portsmouth, insisting that he would remain and help Mexico qualify for the World Cup.[18] After a 3–1 World Cup Qualifying loss at Honduras, Eriksson was removed as national team coach. Eriksson had only won one of his last seven non-friendly games as manager.[19]

Notts County

Eriksson was Director of Football at English League Two team Notts County from July 2009 to February 2010, attracted by a Middle East consortium which claimed to seek to take the club to the top of the Premiership. On 21 July 2009, sources disclosed that Eriksson was in talks with Notts County, following that club's takeover by Middle East consortium Munto Finance[20]. On 22 July the deal was finalised, with Sven getting a reported, but not confirmed, £2m a year deal. It is believed his contract was based on the future success of the club with a large percentage share holding making up his contract. Eriksson later said that he was attracted by the consortium's plans to take the world's oldest league club to the top of the Premiership, and believed that they had the finance and commitment to do that. Large-scale investment in new facilities was promised, and Sol Campbell and Kasper Schmeichel joined the club from Premiership teams. Campbell, however, played only one game. The consortium attempted to involve Eriksson in the running of the North Korean team, taking him to Pyongyang in October 2009; this came to nothing, with Eriksson later saying that his efforts were wasted as he was then unable to contact anyone on the North Korean side. In November 2009 the club's large debts, including an unpaid tax bill, emerged.[21] On 11 February 2010, Eriksson resigned as director of football following the club's takeover by former Lincoln City chairman Ray Trew.[22] Eriksson waived a multi-million payoff in order to assist the takeover; Trew described Eriksson as an "absolute gentleman".[21]

Côte d'Ivoire national team

He was selected to manage the Côte d'Ivoire national team during the 2010 World Cup.[23] On 28 March 2010 he was announced manager of Côte d'Ivoire national football team.[24] Disclosure of the amount of money Eriksson’s contract was worth has never been confirmed.[25]On 15 June 2010, the Côte d'Ivoire played out a 0–0 draw against Portugal in their opening game in Group G, followed by a 3–1 loss against Brazil on 20 June 2010. Prior to the match against Brazil The Brazilian Coach Carlos Dunga commented “With Eriksson, Ivory Coast has great balance. We used to see them play and they didn't have this type of organization that they have now". [26]. Despite defeating North Korea in the final group game 3–0, Ivory Coast failed to qualify for the knockout stages. As there were no reported negations of an extension to Erikssons contract between his agent and the Ivorian FC, his contract ended on June 25th following their elimination from the tournament.[27]

Club managerial honours

Managerial statistics

Team Nat From To Record
G W D L %
Degerfors Sweden 1977 1978 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "�"— &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "�"— &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "�"— &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "�"— —
Göteborg[28] Sweden 1979 1982 &0000000000000100000000100 &000000000000005100000051 &000000000000003200000032 &000000000000001700000017 &000000000000005100000051.00
Benfica Portugal 1982 1984 &000000000000006000000060 &000000000000004600000046 &000000000000001100000011 &00000000000000030000003 &000000000000007667000076.67
Roma Italy 1984 1987 &000000000000009000000090 &000000000000004100000041 &000000000000002600000026 &000000000000002300000023 &000000000000004556000045.56
Fiorentina Italy 1987 1989 &000000000000006400000064 &000000000000002100000021 &000000000000002000000020 &000000000000002300000023 &000000000000003281000032.81
Benfica Portugal 1989 1992 &0000000000000106000000106 &000000000000007200000072 &000000000000002600000026 &00000000000000080000008 &000000000000006792000067.92
Sampdoria Italy 1992 1997 &0000000000000170000000170 &000000000000007100000071 &000000000000005200000052 &000000000000004700000047 &000000000000004175999941.76
Lazio Italy 1997 2001 &0000000000000136000000136 &000000000000007800000078 &000000000000003200000032 &000000000000002600000026 &000000000000005735000057.35
England[29] England 2001 July 2006 &000000000000006700000067 &000000000000004000000040 &000000000000001700000017 &000000000000001000000010 &000000000000005970000059.70
Manchester City England July 2007 June 2008 &000000000000004500000045 &000000000000001900000019 &000000000000001100000011 &000000000000001500000015 &000000000000004221999942.22
Mexico Mexico June 2008 April 2009 &000000000000001300000013 &00000000000000060000006 &00000000000000010000001 &00000000000000060000006 &000000000000004614999946.15
Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire March 2010 June 2010 &00000000000000050000005 &00000000000000020000002 &00000000000000020000002 &00000000000000010000001 &000000000000004000000040.00
Total &0000000000000851000000851 &0000000000000445000000445 &0000000000000228000000228 &0000000000000178000000178 &000000000000005228999952.29

See also

References

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Belgium Paul Van Himst
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