Sven-Göran Eriksson, the former England head coach, will lead Ivory Coast to this summer’s World Cup finals after he was named as their new coach. It is no soft option for the Swede, who will be thrown in at the deep end in group G, where he will face Brazil, Portugal and North Korea. The group may well send a shiver down the spine of Eriksson, having suffered shattering defeats with England by Portugal, in the quarter-finals of Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup, and Brazil, at the same stage of the 2002 World Cup.
Souleymane Alex Bamba, a member of the Ivory Coast FA (FIF), made the announcement on national television last night, one month to the day after Jacques Anouma, the FIF president, fired the previous coach, Vahid Halilhodzic.
Eriksson was chosen for being “an experienced coach who has proved himself”, FIF said in a statement.
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