Former England soccer team manager Sven-Goran Eriksson will continue to contribute to a Prime Video documentary about his life and career, despite his terminal cancer diagnosis.
75-year-old Eriksson has been working with Whisper production company for the last 18 months on a “warts and all” documentary, tracing his career from Italian club Lazio to becoming the first non-British manager of England in 2001.
The Times reports that the doc may be aired midway through the year, although Eriksson will have the final say on the transmission date. The paper quotes a source saying that, despite the football pro’s deteriorating health, there is a lot of humour in the piece, as “Sven is a very funny guy.”
As well as his footballing achievements, the documentary will chart Eriksson’s high-profile life away from the pitch, including relationships with long-term girlfriend Nancy Dell’Olio and British TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson.
Eriksson revealed on Thursday in an interview with Swedish Radio P1 that he had terminal cancer.
“Everyone can see that I have a disease that’s not good, and everyone supposes that it’s cancer, and it is. But I have to fight it as long as possible.
“I know that in the best case it’s about a year, in the worst case even less. It’s better not to think about it. I could go around thinking about that all the time and sit at home and be miserable and think I’m unlucky and so on. But no, see the positive sides of things and don’t bury yourself in setbacks, because this is the biggest setback of them all.”
