The betrayals weren’t the worst, it was the way he managed the money.
Here’s what Nancy Dell’Olio says about Sven-Goran Ericsson in a new interview.
– That was where he behaved the worst, ever, you say.
Sven-Goran Ericsson’s time as England captain in the early 2000s was turbulent, to say the least. He was loved, hated, and derided in Britain—for his bravery with the football team, for his affairs with women—and for his affair with the Italian Nancy Dell’Olio. She moved with him from Rome to London where they lived together until 2006, although the relationship was strained from the start.
Svens wrote in his autobiography from 2013 that he didn’t feel many barriers when he cheated on Nancy, first with televangelist Ulrika Jonsson and then FA secretary Faria Alam.
“I didn’t feel guilty about Nancy. She lived in my house, but we weren’t married and I didn’t love her. Then people thought what they wanted about it.”
After the separation of the couple, who were not married, Nancy Dell’Olio continued to live in the “Svigny” apartment in London, until a confrontation in court in 2013.
Nancy Dell’Olio continued to establish her fame in the UK, appearing in reality series such as Let’s Dance and Master Expert.
“It didn’t end well”
In a new interview, she talks about the breakup with Sven-Goran Ericsson and the bitter financial battle that followed.
It didn’t end well, she told the Daily Mail.
– We have been together for ten years, and we were like husband and wife who shared many intense moments. I’m the kind of person who always tries to maintain a good relationship, but in our particular case, with Sven, I made it very clear when we were done with our lawyer that I didn’t want any contact. We can easily reach each other by phone, but we have not met again, and I have no desire for that.
“worst”
And it’s not Sveni’s infidelities that hurt her – it’s the fight over money and the flat that ensues.
– That was where he behaved the worst, ever, you say.
In his autobiography, Sven-Goran Eriksson writes about how he was tired of Nancy Dell’Olio being too demanding. She also thinks that “Svenice” was unfair.
– I haven’t read the book, so I don’t really know what he meant, she told the Daily Mail. She continues:
Claims do not necessarily have to be negative. Anyway, I’d ask him the bare minimum.
Football’s first wife
At the same time, she claims to have been Britain’s first football wife, or “shake” as players’ wives and girlfriends are called there.
– Of course it started with me, she told the newspaper.
– I started in 2001 and before me, probably no one in England had seen anything like this in world football.