Tord Grip

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Tord Grip
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Grip at Bosön in 2013
Personal information
Full name Tord Erland Grip
Date of birth (1938-01-13) 13 January 1938 (age 86)
Place of birth Ytterhogdal, Sweden
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
–1955 Ytterhogdals
1956–1965 Degerfors
1966–1968 AIK 56 (16)
1969–1973 Karlskoga
International career
1958–1961 Sweden U23 10 (9)
1963–1965 Sweden B 6 (7)
1963–1967 Sweden [1] 3 (1)
Managerial career
1969–1973 Karlskoga
1974–1975 Örebro
1976 Degerfors
1977–1978 Sweden (assistant manager)
1978 Sweden (women) [2]
1979–1980 Örebro
1980 Sweden U21
1983–1984 Malmö
1986 Campobasso
1987–1988 Norway
1988–1990 Young Boys
1991–1995 Sweden (assistant manager)
1995–1996 Indonesia U-23
1997 Young Boys
1998–2001 Lazio (assistant manager)
2001–2006 England (assistant manager)
2007–2008 Manchester City (first team coach)
2009 Mexico (assistant manager)
2009–2010 Notts County (assistant director of football)
2010 Ivory Coast (assistant coach)
2014–2016 Kosovo (assistant coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tord Erland Grip (born 13 January 1938) is a Swedish former football coach and player. He has worked with several national teams, including England, Sweden, Indonesia, Mexico, the Ivory Coast and Kosovo.

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Playing career

Grip began his football career as a teenager playing for Ytterhogdals, where he, like most footballers of his generation also played bandy, later playing part-time in the top flight for Degerfors and AIK while studying for his degree in Physical Education. [3] He played for a reserve side of Aston Villa during a three-month work placement in Birmingham in 1961, although he only appeared in local Intermediate League matches. [4]

Coaching career

Grip became a player/manager at Karlskoga in 1969, and has since managed several other clubs in Sweden, Italy and Switzerland.

He has also managed the Norway national team, the Swedish women's senior team and men's under-16 team, and has had two spells as assistant manager of the Sweden men's team. In 1998, after his second period as assistant manager of the national team, Grip took up a coaching position at the Italian club Lazio as the assistant of fellow Swedish manager Sven-Göran Eriksson.

In January 2001, when Eriksson was appointed England manager, he brought Grip with him from Lazio as assistant manager. Grip remained in the post until the end of the UEFA Euro 2004 and with England until the end of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In November 2006, he was appointed special adviser to Swedish club Djurgården.

On 6 July 2007, Grip became part of the backroom staff of Manchester City when Sven-Göran Eriksson took over as manager. This reunited Grip with Eriksson after their reign together in the England setup. In June 2008, Grip was again reunited with Eriksson, after accepting an offer to become assistant manager of Mexico.

In April 2009, after Eriksson was fired by the Mexican Football Federation 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 respectively at Notts County. Grip is currently a freelance senior squad scout for the Premier League side Southampton.[ citation needed ]

In February 2014, he was appointed as assistant manager of Kosovo. [5]

Style of management

Grip's tactics were inspired by those of English managers Bob Houghton and Roy Hodgson, who pioneered the 4–4–2 formation in Swedish football, and a zonal marking system, as well as heavy pressing. His style in turn influenced that of Sven-Göran Eriksson. [6] [7] [8]

Career statistics

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year [9]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Sweden 196311
196410
196500
196600
196710
Total31
Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Grip goal.
List of international goals scored by Tord Grip
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetitionRef.
127 October 1963 Ullevi, Gothenburg, SwedenFlag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1–02–2 1964 Summer Olympics qualifying [10]

Honours

Manager

Malmö

Sweden (assistant manager)

Lazio (assistant manager)

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References

  1. ↑ "Sweden men's national football team stats". passagen.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 9 June 2001.
  2. ↑ "Samtliga förbundskaptener damlandslaget genom tiderna" (in Swedish). Swedish Football Association . Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "500 AIK:are - Tord Grip". www.aik.se. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  4. ↑ Rej, Arindam (9 February 2005). "Grip was stalwart of Villa's third team". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "Tord Grip blir assisterande förbundskapten i Kosovo" (in Swedish). fotbolltransfers.com. 27 February 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  6. ↑ "C'era in Europa: il Goteborg che portò la Svezia in cima all'Europa" (in Italian). mondosportivo.it. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
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  8. ↑ Wilson, Jonathan (2009). Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics. Orion Books. pp. 299–301. ISBN   978-1-4091-0204-5.
  9. ↑ "Tord Grip - Spelarstatistik - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se. (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 February 2024.
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