Former England and Manchester City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has died at the age of 76 following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Here, we at the Swede’s illustrious career in pictures.
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Eriksson enjoyed managerial success with IFK Gothenburg, Benfica over two spells, Roma and Sampdoria (Rebecca Naden/PA)
He led Lazio to the Serie A title in 2000 (John Giles/PA)
In October 2000, the Swede agreed to take over as England boss the following year (Rebecca Naden/PA)
Eriksson resigned as Lazio boss in January 2001, becoming England’s first foreign manager (Nick Potts/PA)
Nick Barmby scored the first England goal of the Eriksson era in a 3-0 friendly win over Spain at Villa Park on February 28th, 2001 (Rui Vieira/PA)
One of England’s most famous nights when inflicting a rare home defeat on Germany six months later (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Captain David Beckham celebrates his last-gasp equaliser against Greece to send England to the 2002 World Cup (Phil Noble/PA)
Beckham fires home a penalty to beat Argentina in the group stages of the 2002 World Cup (Owen Humphreys/PA)
England were beaten in the quarter-finals of the 2002 World Cup by eventual winners Brazil (Owen Humphreys/PA)
England keeper David Seaman is consoled by Eriksson after the Brazil defeat (Rui Vieira/PA)
Zinedine Zidane’s last-gasp double breaks England hearts in their Euro 2004 opener (Nick Potts/PA)
Eriksson’s England were beaten by Portugal in the quarter-finals of Euro 2004 (Martin Rickett/PA)
Northern Ireland striker David Healy inflicts Eriksson’s first European Championship or World Cup qualifying defeat in Belfast (Paul Faith/PA)
Rooney is sent off during their 2006 World Cup quarter-final against Portugal (Martin Rickett/PA)
England suffer more penalty heartache against Portugal at the 2006 World Cup (Owen Humphreys/PA)
The Swede became Manchester City boss in July 2007 and picked up the Manager of the Month award a month later (Nick Potts/PA)
After a spell as Mexico manager, Eriksson was appointed as director of football for then-League Two club Notts County in July 2009 (Rui Vieira/PA)
Eriksson (right) returned to international management with Ivory Coast (Clint Hughes/PA)
Leicester brought Eriksson back to England in October 2010, where he led the Foxes away from relegation before leaving the following season after just over a year in charge (Chris Radburn/PA)
Eriksson meets Jose Mourinho before a pre-season friendly (PA Wire)
Fabio Capello and Eriksson (right) are England’s only foreign managers to date (Anthony Devlin/PA)
A terminally-ill Eriksson managed Liverpool Legends in the LFC Foundation’s Official Legends Charity match at Anfield in March after revealing it was his dream to coach the Reds (Peter Byrne/PA)
