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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sven-Göran Eriksson has received more than 4,947,547 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Sven-Göran Eriksson is the 18th most popular coach (up from 42nd in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 119th 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 18 out of 471. Before him are Rinus Michels, Fabio Capello, Vicente del Bosque, Frank Rijkaard, Luiz Felipe Scolari, and Marcello Lippi. After him are Joachim Löw, Claudio Ranieri, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Sepp Maier, Jürgen Klopp, and Pep Guardiola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Sven-Göran Eriksson ranks 22. Before him are Jeremy Irons, Olivia Newton-John, Antonín Panenka, Henning Mankell, Luiz Felipe Scolari, and Marcello Lippi. After him are Andrzej Sapkowski, Abdulrazak Gurnah, John R. Bolton, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Maurizio Gucci, and Klaus Meine.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sven-Göran Eriksson ranks 66 out of 1,879. Before him are Folke Bernadotte (1895), Gustav III of Sweden (1746), Björn Borg (1956), Henning Mankell (1948), Anders Jonas Ångström (1814), and Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981). After him are Arne Tiselius (1902), Hilma af Klint (1862), Dolph Lundgren (1957), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Eyvind Johnson (1900), and Verner von Heidenstam (1859).

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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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