Sven Goran Eriksson
- Category : 1948-births
- Type : MGE
- Profile : 3/5 - Martyr / Heretic
- Definition : Split - Small (6,16,20)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX The Sphinx 1
Biography
Swedish football (soccer) manager and former player, commonly referred to just by his nickname 'Svennis' in Sweden.
Eriksson won 17 major trophies as a manager, with a variety of league clubs in Sweden, Portugal and Italy, between 1979 and 2000, and became the first manager to win league-and-cup doubles in three different countries. He later managed the national teams of England, Mexico and Ivory Coast, and three clubs in England. He is currently the manager of Chinese Super League club Shanghai SIPG.
He has worked in nine different countries: Sweden, Portugal, Italy, England, Mexico, Ivory Coast, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and China.
Eriksson's autobiography, "My Story," was published in November 2013.
In June 2014, he launched two Italian wines in Sweden, named SVEN.