Sven-Goran Eriksson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He was in the bus with us.
He was in the dressing room.
He was everywhere.
But he chose to go to Germany instead.
And that was a big mistake.
He won the UEFA Cup for that team in 1982.
We had a lot of good football players like Hussein Strömberg, you know, but he was out of this.
Roma wanted him.
Many teams wanted him at that time.
And he went to the wrong country at that time.
At that time in Germany they were running football, they were not playing.
And there was never any success at that time in Germany.
You had Platini as well.
But that... Yeah.
Well, he was a golden Italian boy, for sure, for sure, for sure.
And he signed for Fiorentina when he was 18, 19, I think.
He came a little bit injured, but you could see at once, this will be something very, very special.
Explosive, the technique, the vision, and very, very good.
Probably Roberto Falcao because of his...
leadership on the pitch.