Sven Goran Eriksson: Last News

Sven-Goran Eriksson has confirmed he has been diagnosed with cancer after announcing he was stepping back from football in 2023 to "focus on my health and family".The 75 year old football manager, who managed England men's team from 2001 until 2006, shared the sad news on Thursday, 11 January in an interview on Sweden's P1 radio station, revealing he has "at best a year to live". "Everyone understands that I have an illness that is not good. Everyone guesses it's cancer and it is.

Emotional Steven Gerrard has issued a personal pledge in a bid to continue starring for Liverpool in the coming years.

The emotional return of Steven Gerrard starring alongside Fernando Torres was hit with early turbulence as a former Celtic misfit scored to silence the Kop.

BBC sketch show The Big Impression which ran between 2000 and 2004, discussed the state of his career during an interview with The Scots magazine (via the Independent).“I still do some live shows but that is drawing to a close now as I am not feeling motivated enough,” McGowan said. “When I have done certain events recently, I have noticed that younger audiences just don’t watch television in the way they used to.“The younger audience particularly has no idea who these people are, so my whole methodology doesn’t really work for a modern audience.

Ulrika Jonsson, 55, has been no stranger to dating footballers - but she's now made it clear that Strictly's Tony Adams is one conquest she never attempted to make.The former TV presenter once dated Stan Collymore, and even had a fling with England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, but she was keen to set the record straight on Tony's claims that she had previously slipped her phone number into his pocket, claiming on Instagram that she was "laughing my t**s off" at the claim.Tony, 56, in recently unearthed quotes from his book, insisted that he had resisted her advances as he was more interested in supermodel Caprice Bourret, whose presence on his arm had made him feel like a "king".However, an astonished Ulrika firmly denied his claims, stating that there wasn't "an ounce of truth in it". She doubled down on that comment on Instagram, telling her 202,000 followers: "Laughing my t**s off at this. Never, ever met the bloke.

England manager Gareth Southgate, as the Three Lions boss once shunned an invitation to a ‘white tie and diamonds’ party from David Beckham.Twenty years ago, Southgate was called up to Sven-Goran Eriksson’s England squad for the 2002 World Cup in Asia. As a means of team bonding and perhaps displaying their gregariously, glamorous lifestyle, Beckham decided on hosting a rather posh event.'White tie and diamonds’ was the theme and David and Victoria Beckham’s lavish ‘Beckingham Palace’ was the venue for this ultra exclusive affair.

Manchester United legend Gary Neville would be ruled out of the 2002 World Cup through injury.The former Leeds United defender was a surprise inclusion in Sven Goran Eriksson’s first World Cup squad as England manager. At the time, Mills was more of an outsider for the right back position, due to Neville’s regular brilliance under Sir Alex Ferguson.However, the now Sky Sports pundit was forced to sit out of the tournament in Asia after breaking his foot after a hard challenge on Bayer Leverkusen star Ze Roberto in the 2002 Champions League semi-final.

Rightly or wrongly, Jack Grealish has been under the spotlight pretty much constantly since he joined Manchester City in the summer of 2021.

Victoria Beckham, 48, is said to have turned down former England coach Sven-Göran Eriksson’s offer for her husband David to play for Leicester football club.

Manchester United stars are surprisingly still playing professional football in 2022 despite leaving Old Trafford years ago. Having reached the highest level by representing one of the biggest clubs in the world, some players drift out of the limelight after their time with the Red Devils comes to an end.

LOVE Island's Faye Winter has survived on Celebrity Masterchef - despite making cookies some fans said looked like "turds". The 26-year-old made it through to the first round - but another reality TV star wasn't so lucky.

England star who could have played for Brazil, according to the ex-Liverpool man. The duo faced off in the last eight of the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, with Brazil coming from behind to beat the Three Lions on route to winning their fifth title.

David Beckham has revealed his wife Victoria Beckham 'regrets' going 'too far' as one of the most famous WAGs in the world.

2-0 victory over Germany at Euro 2020 that England fans could stop harking back to memories of Munich in 2001 for a pick-me-up.The Three Lions' emphatic 5-1 victory that day stunned everybody, not least England's fans who'd seen their side beaten by the Germans a whopping 11 times since '66, and such was the shock inside the Olympic Stadium that the father of Germany boss Rudi Voller had a heart attack at half-time.For those perhaps too young (or too drunk at the time) to remember, Carsten Jancker had given Germany the lead inside five minutes, but what followed was one of the most uncharacteristically brilliant fightbacks in English football history.Michael Owen bagged a hattrick, Steven Gerrard blasted one in from long-range and Emile Heskey completed the rout late on as England steamrolled over their greatest rivals, less than a year after being sunk by Germany during the last match ever at the old Wembley.England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson - who had only been in the job a few months - was suddenly being pedestalled alongside Winston Churchill and Admiral Nelson with fans immediately convinced of victory at the following year's World Cup - not that they ever need much encouragement.Which was better - England 2-0 Germany at Euro 2020, or Germany 1-5 England in 2001? Let us know what you think in the comments section.Meanwhile, morale inside Germany's dressing room plunged to an all-time low and legendary goalkeeper Oliver Khan later admitted he feared the despairing squad wouldn't be able to bounce back before Japan and South Korea.How typically German of them to then go and reach the World Cup final while England were knocked out in the quarters.

England will renew rivalries with their old footballing foes when they take on the European giants in the Nations League in Munich on Tuesday night, almost 12 months on from the Three Lions' iconic Euro 2020 triumph over the same opponents at Wembley. Goals from Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane saw Gareth Southgate's side claim a memorable win over the Germans on that occasion, but it was by no means England's most famous success over their international enemy.Back in 2001, the Three Lions thumped Germany 5-1 on their own patch in one of the country's greatest ever results.

Manchester City have come a long way over the past 14 years thanks to the money of Sheikh Mansour. Yesterday, City announced the signing of Borussia Dortmund Erling Haaland, one of the most exciting young players in world football for £51million. The transfer is just the latest in a long line of such deals in the Sheikh Mansour era.

Jesminder "Jess" Bhamr scored that free-kick for Hounslow Harriers in 2002 hit Bend It Like Beckham. Crazy though it may seem, it's 20 years to the day since Jess stuck it in top bins for the Harriers to win their huge championship match and book her place at Santa Clara University in California.

Danny Murphy doesn't believe Carlo Ancelotti is the right man for Manchester United and that they missed the boat with Antonio Conte.

Manchester City were not the global superpower that they have now become. In fact, the Abu Dhabi owners did not purchase the club until 2008 when former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra was in charge.The politician himself had only just bought City 15 months prior to the mega-money takeover but his short-lived era will always be remembered as a false dawn.

Manchester City and failed to make any sort of impression during his time in the Premier League. But the Italian has gone on to become quite the physical specimen despite hanging his boots up five years ago.Once upon a time, he would have been begging the Lord Almighty to hit the target but now he resembles something more like Jesus.Since retiring from football in 2017, the former Italy Under-21 international has turned his hand to a number of other crafts.Turning 39 on Tuesday, he owns a vineyard in northern Italy where he has his own wine named Il Risveglio Valcalepio Rosso, a red with dry and bold tastes.However, despite it being a passion of his, the general public have not agreed with his wine business failing to take off as of yet.As well as swilling wine glasses, Bianchi is also in the process of becoming a horse trainer - another wild hobby - and his Instagram is full of pictures of him riding tending to his ponies.One post includes Bianchi even helping one of his horses give birth, including the caption “La bellezza della NATURA”, translated to “the beauty of NATURE”.The former striker enjoyed and endured a topsy-turvy career while his few months in the Premier League hardly made him a household name.

Sir Alex Ferguson was left fuming by Sven Goran Eriksson's decision to take an injured Wayne Rooney to the 2006 World Cup rather than let him recover with Manchester United.The legendary Scot often locked horns with international bosses who looked to call up his United stars when they might've been better off staying with the club due to injury concerns.The most infamous occasion came when England boss Sven looked to take a 20-year-old Rooney to the World Cup in Germany, with a precautionary CT scan on his foot going ahead on June 7.With Ferguson telling the England boss that he Rooney should not travel unless his is at 100% fitness, Sven ignored him and Rooney quickly paid the price in training.Speaking on Amazon Prime documentary, Rooney, England and United's record goalscorer admitted that he never considered staying behind in England.He said: "I remember thinking, it is my first World Cup, how can I not be there?"I need to do everything I can to be there. And I did, I was in oxygen chambers, I was back and forth seeing specialists."Was Sven right to take Rooney to the World Cup? Give us your thoughts in the comments sectionWith Sven saying: "Sir Alex did not want Rooney to go.