Tord Erland Grip (born 13 January 1938) is a Swedish former

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coach and

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. He has worked with several national teams, including

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, the

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and

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Playing career

Grip began his football career as a teenager playing for

Ytterhogdals IK Ytterhogdals IK is a Sweden, Swedish Association football, football club located in Ytterhogdal. They currently compete in Swedish Football Division 2, Division 2 Norrland, the fourth tier of Swedish football. Background Ytterhogdals IK currently ...

, in which he as most footballers of his generation also played

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, later playing part-time in the top flight for

Degerfors IF Degerfors IF is a Swedish football club located in Degerfors. The club, formed 13 January 1907, is currently playing in the highest tier in Swedish football, Allsvenskan. Background Degerfors IF first played in the Allsvenskan in 1939 maki ...

and

AIK AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning ''the public'' or ''general sports club''), is a Swedish football club competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The ...

while studying for his degree in

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Coaching career

Grip became a player/manager at

KB Karlskoga KB Karlskoga FF is a Swedish football club located in Karlskoga. The club was founded in 1963 following the merger of IFK Bofors and Karlskoga IF. KB means Karlskoga/Bofors. Background Since their foundation in 1963 KB Karlskoga FF has participa ...

in 1969, and has since managed several other clubs, Swedish, Italian and Swiss. He has also managed the national team for

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, the Swedish women's senior team and men's under sixteen team, and has had two spells as assistant manager of the country's team for

. After his second period as assistant manager of the national team, in 1998, Grip took up a coaching position at the club from Italy,

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, as the assistant of fellow Swedish manager

Sven-Göran Eriksson Sven-Göran Eriksson (; born 5 February 1948) is a Swedish football manager and former player. After an unassuming playing career as a right-back, Eriksson went on to experience major success in club management between 1977 and 2001, winning 18 ...

. In January 2001, when Eriksson was appointed England manager, he brought Grip with him from Lazio as assistant manager, and he remained in the post until the end of the

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, and with England until the end of the

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. In November 2006, Grip was appointed special adviser to the club from Sweden,

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is named ...

. On 6 July 2007, Grip became part of the backroom staff of

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, when Sven-Göran Eriksson took over as manager of the club, it meant that Grip was re united with Eriksson, after their reign together in the set up of England. In June 2008, Grip was again reunited with Eriksson, after accepting an offer to become assistant manager of

. In April 2009, after Eriksson was fired by the

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due to a bad string of results, Eriksson and Grip took up the positions of Director of Football and General Advisor to the Director of Football at

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respectively. Grip is currently a freelance senior squad scout, for the team in the Premiership,

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. In February 2014, he was appointed as assistant manager of

Honours

Manager

Malmö FF *

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Sweden (assistant manager) *

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third place:

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Lazio (assistant manager) *

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: 1999–2000

References

External links

Profile on TheFA.com

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