Sven me some Goran news
du Nord, June 4, 2008
Luis Bueno is a freelance writer based in Riverside, Calif. and writes for SI.com, The Press-Enterprise and MLSnet.com.Mexico got their man. Sven Goran Eriksson is now the boss of El Tricolor. The picture there is the cover of Cancha, a Guadalajara sports daily. The headline reads "Proud (and in Spanish)." Eriksson speaks five languages (Swedish, German, English, Portuguese, Italian) but Spanish is not one of them. However, he said at a press conference that he'd have to be stupid not to be able to learn Spanish. Still, if the response from players is any indication, Sven's stint in Mexico won't exactly be comfortable.Some stories: Mark Zeigler of the San Diego Union-Tribune has a piece on Eriksson's hiring and how it went down after training.Grahame L. Jones of the Los Angeles Times has more on Eriksson and some of the discontented players, who include Jared Borgetti and Carlos Salcido. Borgetti, though, was all but gone from the national team until the latter part of the Clausura 2008 season, so he doesn't