Honoring Sven-Goran Eriksson: A Football Legend

Sven-Goran Eriksson, a football legend, passed away at 76 after a long battle with cancer.

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Honoring Sven-Goran Eriksson: A Football Legend

Today, the football world is broken-hearted because Sven-Goran Eriksson left us. The death of this 76-year-old man who lost the battle to cancer will be considered as the end of the career of a person who had been part of the sport’s life for more than four decades leaving a specific and significant trace.

Honoring the Name of Sven-Goran Eriksson: A Person of a Great Football Destiny

Sven-Goran Eriksson was a Swedish specialist whose career started in his motherland SUA but developed internationally. Due to the mentioned experience, he received the title of the first foreigner who managed the English National Team. His work in the UK as a head coach of the national team lasted 2001-2006. The results were consistent, and the team reached the quarter-final in three big tournaments. The strategy he applied was a combination of a particular calmness and the ability to make a prompt decision what helped to gain respect and love of the footballers and admirers too. To be honest, it was not reflected in the trophies, which remained the most serious achievement since and the beginning of his career as an international coach in 1982 in the National Team of Sweden. The total number of the awards won in 12 clubs serving as the head coach is 18.

The personal achievements

In conclusion, it is important to say that the innovations and trophies are not the only footprints Sven-Goran Eriksson leaves in football history. His effect on applied in the game universe values is the essential part of the contemporary sport philosophy. It touchable as the innovation he made and adapted himself to is the first case the attempt to understand and penetrate was made by him. The leading principles of his activity were in the soldier strategy, his brilliant structure, and balanced transfer decisions. The last were motivated by the ability to wander and fall in love sincerely with his squad and club giving in return an opportunity of the player to to discover a foreign land and the players’ base with him.

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