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I’ve One Year To Live Because I Have Cancer— Ex-England Manager
Former Manchester City and England manager Sven Goran Eriksson has revealed he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and might only have a year left to live.
The Swede spent a year as City coach in the 2007/08 campaign and led the team to a ninth place finish.
This was while completing a league double over Manchester United.
But Eriksson is perhaps most remembered for his role as England boss, where he presid
I have cancer, might have one year to live — Ex-England manager
The 75-year-old resigned from his most recent role in football as sporting director at Swedish club Karistad, 11 months, due to health reasons, and told radio station P1 in his native Sweden that he is sadly battling cancer.
He said: “Everyone can see that I have a disease that’s not good, and everyone supposes that it’s cancer, and it is.
“But I have to fight it as long as possible.
“I know that in the best case it’s about a year, in the worst case even less.
“Or in the best case I suppose even longer.
“I don’t think the doctors I have can be totally sure, they can’t put a day on it.
“It’s better not to think about it.
“You have to trick your brain.
“I could go around thinking about that all the time and sit at home and be miserable and think I’m unlucky and so on.
“It’s easy to end up in that position.
“But no, see the positive sides of things and don’t bury yourself in setbacks, because this is the biggest setback of them all of course.
“It just came from nothing.
“And that makes you shocked.
“I’m not in any major pain.
“But I’ve been diagnosed with a disease that you can slow down but you cannot operate.
“So it is what it is.”
Eriksson was England manager between 2001 and 2006, and oversaw the construction of the “Golden Generation” side that included David Beckham, Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney.
He was in charge for 67 matches, the third highest number of any England manager in the last 50 years, after Sir Bobby Robson and Gareth Southgate, and famously guided the Three Lions to a 5-1 win in Germany.
After a quarter-final exit at the 2006 World Cup, Eriksson stepped away from his England duties and went on to have a varied managerial career that included his stint in Manchester and then Leicester City, as well as periods as the national manager of Mexico, Ivory Coast and the Philippines.
Prior to his time as England boss, Eriksson managed Benfica, Roma, Fiorentina, Sampdoria and Lazio, winning the 1999/00 Serie A with the latter.
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