Ex-England soccer supervisor Sven-Goran Eriksson has been recognized with pancreatic most cancers and has at finest “maybe a year” to dwell, he mentioned Thursday. The 75-year-old Swede, who has managed a slew of high-profile groups and took England to World Cup quarter-finals in 2002 and 2006, introduced in February final yr that he was stepping again from public appearances “due to health issues”. “Everyone understands that I have a disease that is not good. Everyone guesses that it’s cancer, and it is. But I have to put up a fight as long as I can,” Eriksson instructed public broadcaster Sveriges Radio in an interview.

Eriksson mentioned that in his physician’s evaluation he had “at best maybe a year (to live), at worst a little less”.

“You have to trick your brain,” he added.

“I could think about it all the time, and sit home and mope, feel unlucky and so on. I think it’s easy to end up like that,” he instructed the broadcaster.

“See the positive in things,” he mentioned.

“Don’t bury yourself due to adversity. This is the biggest adversity of course, but try to make something good out of it.”

Born February 5, 1948 in Sunne in western Sweden, Eriksson, who goes by “Svennis” to Swedes, discovered success as a soccer supervisor after retiring from a modest profession as a defender.

In 1977, he grew to become supervisor of Swedish membership Degerfors IF. After main the small membership to success in decrease divisions, he attracted the eye of larger golf equipment.

He went on to handle Sweden’s IFK Goteborg earlier than discovering success internationally, managing Benfica in Portugal, in addition to a number of Italian groups together with Roma and Lazio.

His most high-profile place was as the primary foreigner to handle England’s nationwide squad.

Eriksson has since managed Mexico, Ivory Coast and the Philippines, however by no means his native Sweden’s nationwide squad.

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