By Jon Brady Published: 12:17 EDT, 26 August 2024 | Updated: 12:24 EDT, 26 August 2024
David Beckham has shared a heart-breaking tribute to Sven-Goran Eriksson on Instagram – featuring what appears to be his final meeting with the ex-England manager.Becks’ social media post features a silent clip of him and the late Swede, 76, walking, talking and laughing at what appears to be Eriksson’s home in Sunne on an unspecified date.He issued the tribute after the football legend’s family announced his death earlier today following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Beckham wrote: ‘We laughed , we cried & we knew we were saying goodbye.’Sven thank you for always being the person you have always been , passionate , caring, calm & a true gentleman.’I will be forever grateful for you making me your captain but I will forever hold these last memories of this day with you and your family.’Thank you Sven and in your last words to me: ‘It will be ok’.’Svennis, as he is known at home in Sweden, revealed in January he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and had been given at most a year to live.However, he had been praised for his inspiring and optimistic outlook on his diagnosis, in which he implored others to live life to the full.In a Prime Video documentary issued days before he died, Sven had opened up about the highs and lows of his life – including how he was coping with the news he had been diagnosed with cancer.He said: ‘It was a shock. It’s one of those which will not go away.’But you can slow them down hopefully. I have no pain but I know it’s there. ‘One day it will take you. Before that day, live instead of sitting down thinking about what and when it will happen.’This is a breaking story – more to follow.
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David Beckham shares heartbreaking tribute to Sven-Goran Eriksson – joining England’s gold generation mourning manager’s loss