Sven-Goran Eriksson
By Joe Lovejoy
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A major in-depth biography of Sven-Goran Eriksson – the first foreign manager of the England football team – which chronicles his time in the hot seat, from taking over from Kevin Keegan, the story of the 2002 World Cup Finals in Japan and South Korea, through to the 2004 European Championships.
Reserved – some would say introvert – by nature, he has so far dismissed as intrusive almost all questions about anything other than the England team.
There is a fascinating story to be told about the moderate full-back who failed in his own country, retired from playing at 27, then went on to become one of the best coaches in the world.
The son of a truck driver from a small provincial town in Sweden, Eriksson left school early and worked in a social security office. He went to college to study PE and played football as an amateur before being persuaded by an older teammate Tord Grip (now his assistant with England) that his career lay elsewhere in management.
Modest success at Roma and Fiorentina was followed by a renewal of Sampdoria's fortunes. It wasn't long before Lazio came knocking – but not before an acrimonious fallout with Blackburn when his surprise about-turn left the Lancashire club without a new manager. He enjoyed phenomenal success in Rome, however, where he led Lazio to the scudetto, and this eventually paved the way to the England manager's job.
Since then Eriksson has come under the microscope from the English press, as much for his private affairs as for his team's stuttering performances. Despite his achievements in leading England to the quarter-finals of the World Cup in 2002, his methods, formations and team selections are the subject of fierce debate up and down the country.
Joe Lovejoy's book captures the essence of the man and goes some way to explaining his influence behind England. This paperback edition explores his thoughts about his captain playing his football in Spain and documents England's rocky road to the 2004 European Championship finals.
Joe Lovejoy
Joe Lovejoy is the acclaimed football correspondent of The Sunday Times and Football Writer of the Year for 2000.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a book written by a journalist. Joe Lovejoy explains that the 'Red Tops' (English tabloid press) had so infuriated all the people from Sven,s home village that they refused to talk to him, and this shows. Sven's family is covered in a paragraph: dad was a bus driver and he was close to his mum (!). There is no insight into the man , in this book. We get pages of, "in the 1997 season Sven's team kicked off the season with a 2-1 win against .... in the next game they played....", type reportage but little about Sven pre the England manager's job: even then, it is largely football based, with the only digression being in relation to his sexual proclivities. Sadly, I do not feel that I know the man any better for this book, which is a pity because, having cut his teeth in Italy and the England job, Sven now takes on the role to which his career has been building: he is the new manager of my beloved Leicester City!
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