What would the country of soccer, England, be without the Swedes?
The reason I ask that is because one of the hottest persons in England right now is a Swede, SvenGran Eriksson. England has always said that they only will take Englishmen as their coach for their national team of soccer, but now there is a foreigner in that position, a Swede. It all started in Torsby, where Sven-Gran “Svennis” Eriksson was born in 1948. Eriksson made his debut, just seventeen years old, for Torsby IF. Erikssons career as a player never reached the peaks in Swedish terms. He was a name but never a star. His career ended in 1975 in Karlskoga KB, because of a injury. The end of Eriksson’s career as a player, was just the beginning of another career. The career coach “Svennis” then joined Degerfors, in Sweden, as an assistant to its manager Tord Grip. Grip and “Svennis” met while “Svennis” was playing for Karlskoga. It was Grip who suggested that Eriksson should pursue a career in coaching. That was the beginning of a long relationship. In 1979 Sven-Gran became coach of I
