England's new soccer coach Sweden's Sven Goran Eriksson (3R) accompanied by the Football Association's (FA) Chief Executive Adam Crozier (C) and FA Executive Director David Davies (R) is surrounded by photographers as he arrives at a news conference in St Albans November 2, 2000. Eriksson said that negotiations with Italian club Lazio were underway to allow him to take up his new position as England coach for the two world cup qualifiers in March next year.

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