Birthday

1948-02-05

Place of Birth

Torsby, Värmlands län, Sweden

Biography

Sven-Göran Eriksson (born 5 February 1948) is a Swedish football manager and former player. He is the head coach of the Philippines national team. As a manager, Eriksson won eighteen trophies 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 countries. He later managed the national teams of England, Mexico and the Ivory Coast, as well as two clubs in England. Eriksson has worked in ten countries: Sweden, Portugal, Italy, England, Mexico, Ivory Coast, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, China and the Philippines. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia