YEREVAN, AUGUST 26, ARMENPRESS. At the age of 76, the famous football coach Sven-Joran Eriksson died, who fought against pancreatic cancer for months.
“Armenpress”according to the international media reports about this.
“This morning our father, Sven-Joran Eriksson, slept soundly at his home in Bjorkefors, not far from Sunner. He bravely fought against his illness for a long time, but now it is over,” the coach’s children noted.
Since 1976, Sven-Joran Eriksson started coaching, during his career he coached such clubs as Italian “Fiorentina”, “Lazio” and “Roma”, English “Manchester City” and “Leicester”. City”, Portuguese “Benfica”, as well as the national teams of England, Mexico and Ivory Coast.