Former England soccer coach Eriksson dies at age 76

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Former England soccer coach Eriksson dies at age 76

Swedish soccer manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, who became the first foreigner to lead the England national team, has died at the age of 76.

Eriksson, a charismatic coach who led Swedish, Portuguese and Italian clubs to major trophies in the 1980s and 1990s before taking on the England job in 2001, announced in January that he was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer.

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