Sven-Goran Eriksson decides where his ashes will be scattered
Sven-Goran Eriksson, who has just months to live after being diagnosed with incurable cancer, has picked a poignant spot in his native Sweden for his ashes to be scattered
Sven-Goran Eriksson’s ashes will be scattered in a poignant spot that “feels like home”.
It was announced earlier this year that the former England and Manchester City boss had a year to live at best after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The announcement triggered a wave of goodwill from across the football world.
Eriksson’s colourful career, which also included spells in charge of Benfica, Lazio , and Leicester City, is the subject of an upcoming documentary on Prime Video. In it, the 76-year-old is candid about his cancer diagnosis and plans for his passing, including where his ashes will be scattered.
Eriksson has picked a special place by Lake Fryken near his birthplace in Sunne and where he grew up in Torsby in western Sweden. As part of the documentary, Eriksson visits the spot with members of his family and explains why the area is so important to him.
“A beautiful place, [it] makes you calm, makes me calm,” he says. Pointing across the lake, he adds: “Below the mountain [is] where my father grew up. If you look straight on, that’s Torsby, where I grew up.
“I always thought great place, to sleep. The ashes could be thrown into the water here. It feels like home.”
Eriksson, who was in charge of England for five years before leaving after the 2006 World Cup, stood down from his most recent role as sporting director at Swedish club Karlstad last year due to health issues. He was informed by doctors he had pancreatic cancer and while there are treatments to slow down its progression and help manage symptoms, there is no cure.
He told Swedish Radio P1 in January: “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. It’s pancreatic – you can’t operate on it. It can be slowed.
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“I know that in the best case it’s about a year, in the worst case even less. Or in the best case I suppose even longer. I don’t think the doctors I have can be totally sure, they can’t put a day on it.
“It’s better not to think about it. You have to trick your brain. 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.
“It’s easy to end up in that position. But no, see the positive sides of things and don’t bury yourself in setbacks, because this is the biggest setback of them all of course.”
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