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Ex-England manager, Eriksson battling cancer

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Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has revealed he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has around a year at most to live. 

Eriksson, who served as England's first foreign manager from 2001 to 2006, 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 station P1 he had been given the shock news after fainting on a 5k run, and had previously been in a good state of health.

He led England to one of their most famous results, a 5-1 win over Germany in Munich in September 2001, and took them to three consecutive quarter-final berths at major tournaments.

Eriksson told Swedish Radio P1: "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.

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