
Swedish coach Sven Goran Ericksson signed a long -term contract with the English football association (FA). On the eve of Ericksson received permission from Lazio, whose coach he is to leave the club after the end of the season, when the term of his contract expires.
Sven Ericksson is one of the most popular figures in the "Series A", which has trained for 13 years such clubs as Roma, Fiorentina and Sampdoria. Having spent the last season brilliantly, Ericksson, for the first time in the last 26 years, brought Lazio to the top of the Italian championship and won the Cup.
The victory in the "Series A" is the first "Italian" success of such a caliber in Ericksson’s career, earlier he won the Sweden championship with Gotheborg and three Portuguese championships with Benfica.