Former Leicester and England manager reveals he has "a year to live" after cancer diagnosis
Sven-Goran Eriksson has been talking about his cancer diagnosis
Former England and Leicester City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson revealed he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and in a âbest caseâ scenario has around a year left to live.
Eriksson, who also spent 7 months at Meadow Lane as Notts County's director of footbal, stood down from his most recent role as sporting director at Swedish club Karlstad 11 months ago due to health issues.
The 75-year-old told Swedish Radio P1: âEveryone can see that I have a disease thatâs not good, and everyone supposes that itâs cancer, and it is. But I have to fight it as long as possible.
âI know that in the best case itâs about a year, in the worst case even less. Or in the best case I suppose even longer. I donât think the doctors I have can be totally sure, they canât put a day on it.
âItâs 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 Iâm unlucky and so on.
âItâs easy to end up in that position. But no, see the positive sides of things and donât bury yourself in setbacks, because this is the biggest setback of them all of course.â