Former England and Manchester City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has revealed doctors have handed him a crushing terminal cancer diagnosis. Eriksson, 75, has been told he has, at most, one year left to live after collapsing while on a run last year, but he is ready to fight the illness.
The Swede learned the shocking news after doctors discovered he was seriously ill and had also suffered a stroke during a 5k run.
Speculation about Eriksson’s health swirled after he resigned as Karlstad’s sporting director in February last year.
And he has now opened up on his devastating situation, admitting he has “maybe at best a year, at worst a little less, or at best maybe even longer. You can’t be absolutely sure. It is better not to think about it”.
Eriksson told Sweden’s P1 radio station: “Everyone understands that I have an illness that is not good.
“Everyone guesses it’s cancer, and it is. But I have to fight as long as I can. But you can trick your brain.
“See the positive in things, don’t wallow in adversity, because this is the biggest adversity, of course, but make something good out of it. They don’t know how long I had cancer, maybe a month or a year.”
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