Tord Grip

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Tord Grip
Full name	Tord Erland Grip
Date of birth	January 13, 1938 (1938-01-13) (age 70)
Place of birth	Ytterhogdal, Sweden
Playing position	Special advisor, (former Forward)
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
-1955 1956-1965 1966-1968 1969-1973	Ytterhogdal IK Degerfors IF AIK BK Karlskoga
Teams managed
1969-1973 1974-1975 1976 1977-1978 1979-1980 1979-1980 1981-1986 1986 1987-1988 1988-1990 1991-1997 1995-1996 1998-2000 2000-2006 2007-2008	BK Karlskoga Örebro SK Degerfors IF Sweden (assistant manager) Örebro SK Sweden (U 21) Malmö FF A.C. Campobasso Norway BSC Young Boys Sweden (assistant manager) Indonesia S.S. Lazio (assistant manager) England (assistant manager) Manchester City (First Team Coach)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of October 29, 2006. ² National team caps and goals correct as of October 29, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Tord Grip (born 13 January 1938) is a Swedish football manager. Prior to England's exit in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he was one of Sven-Göran Eriksson's assistant coaches of the English national football team.

Tord Grip began his football career as a teenager playing for Ytterhogdals IK, later playing part-time in the top flight for Degerfors IF and AIK while studying for his degree in Physical Education. He became a player/manager at KB Karlskoga in 1969 and has since managed several other Swedish, Italian and Swiss clubs. He has also managed the Norwegian men's national team, the Swedish women's senior team and men's under-16 team and has had two spells as assistant manager of the Swedish men's national team.

After his second period as assistant manager of the national team, in 1998 Grip took up a coaching position at Italian club S.S. Lazio as the assistant of fellow Swedish manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. When Eriksson was appointed England National Team Coach in 2000 he brought Grip with him from Lazio, and they remained in the post until the end of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

In November 2006 Grip was appointed Special Advisor to the Swedish club Djurgårdens IF.

On July 6th 2007, Grip became part of the Manchester City backroom staff when Sven-Goran Eriksson took over as manager of the club. It meant that Grip was re-united with Eriksson after their reign together in the England set-up.

Preceded by Peter Beardsley	England Assistant Manager 2001-2006	Succeeded by Terry Venables
Preceded by Tor Røste Fossen	Norway national team manager 1987-1988	Succeeded by Ingvar Stadheim