{"id":165183,"date":"2024-03-25T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/25\/its-a-memory-for-life-sven-goran-eriksson-thanks-liverpool-after-fulfilling-manager-dream\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T13:28:00","slug":"its-a-memory-for-life-sven-goran-eriksson-thanks-liverpool-after-fulfilling-manager-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/25\/its-a-memory-for-life-sven-goran-eriksson-thanks-liverpool-after-fulfilling-manager-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a memory for life\u2019 \u2013 Sven-Goran Eriksson thanks Liverpool after fulfilling manager dream \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Sven-Goran Eriksson hailed his experience of being Liverpool manager for the day at Anfield in a legends charity match as a \u201cmemory for life\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eriksson was\u00a0handed control of a Liverpool Legends side\u00a0featuring the likes of Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Daniel Agger and Jerzy Dudek for the clash with Ajax Legends, having revealed it as a personal dream in the wake of his\u00a0terminal cancer diagnosis earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everybody was a winner today and it was beautiful, absolutely fantastic, incredible \u2013 everything from\u00a0<em>You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone\u00a0<\/em>and the rest of the match, and a good win \u2013 we were 2-0 down and won 4-2!\u201d the former England boss reflected afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was crying [during\u00a0<em>You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone<\/em>]. [It is] a memory for life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 75-year-old, who was England\u2019s first foreign head coach during his reign between 2001 and 2006, said in January he has \u201cbest case a year\u201d to live and \u201cworst case a lot less\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/01hsr23dw9rpq646ax34.jpg\" alt=\"Sven-Goran Eriksson\" title=\"Sven-Goran Eriksson\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Eriksson was visibly emotional at Anfield \/ Clive Brunskill\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Reflecting on his ambition being fulfilled on Saturday, Eriksson continued: \u201cTo sit on the bench for Liverpool, that\u2019s been my dream my whole life. Now it happened, and it was a beautiful day in all meanings. The crowd, the game, the players, everything, fantastic, and thank you to Liverpool for giving me this opportunity, to invite me for such an important game \u2013 it\u2019s not points, but the importance of the game is incredible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was full of emotions, tears coming. It\u2019s been my dream club all my life \u2013 even when I had England, I also supported\u00a0Liverpool, but I couldn\u2019t say it at that time. It\u2019s a good finish, to finish with Liverpool, it can\u2019t be much better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eriksson\u2019s managerial career spanned 42 years, from his first job with Degefor in his native Sweden in 1977 until stepping down as Philippines boss in 2019. He rose to international prominence in the 1980s with spells in charge of Benfica and Roma, before perhaps a career-defining stint at Lazio that saw the club win Serie A, the Coppa Italia twice and the UEFA Cup Winners\u2019 Cup.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the England job in 2006, Eriksson had a season at Manchester City right before Sheikh Mansour\u2019s 2008 takeover catapulted the club to success. He also spent a number of years in China.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sven-Goran Eriksson hailed his experience of being Liverpool manager for the day at Anfield in a legends charity match as a \u201cmemory for life\u201d. 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