Hokan Georg Erickson ( Swede. Håkan Georg Ericson ; May 29, 1960) - Swedish football coach. From 2011 to 2017, he led the youth and Olympic teams of Sweden.
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Career
He started playing football in his hometown in the club "Obu", there he began to play at an adult level, but pretty soon ended his playing career.
From the age of 23 he has been working as a football coach, he began as a coach of amateur teams of lower divisions and youth squads. In 1987, he won the fourth division tournament with the Rosunda club. In the early 1990s, he worked with the Vesby and Vasalunds clubs, who played in the second-highest division of the Swedish championship. In 2000, he brought the Naka club out of the third division into the second.
At the beginning of 2001, he joined the Norrköping coaching staff, and in May 2002 he headed the club [1] , which at that time played in the top division . In his first season, Erickson could not keep the team in the top division, and the next year Norrköping took a place in the middle of the second division table. In September 2003, the coach was dismissed [2] .
Since the mid-2000s, he worked as a teacher at the University of Örebro, then an instructor in the Swedish Football Union .
On January 1, 2011, he took over as the coach of the youth team of Sweden [3] , replacing Tommy Soderberg . In qualifying for the 2013 European Youth Championship, the Swedes won the group stage, but lost to the Italians in the playoffs for the right to reach the final stage. In the next campaign, in 2015, Erickson led the Swedish team to the first ever victory in the European Youth Championship .
Personal life
Hokan’s father, Georg Obu Erickson , was also a football coach and coached the Swedish national team in the 1970s.
Hokan is married, he has two children - a son and a daughter [4] .