Sven staying with Mexico

Former England boss happy with Mexico

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Sven staying with Mexico

Eriksson: Staying

It's not bad to be linked with such good jobs. It's worse that they would never mention my name. So that's okay.

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Sven Goran Eriksson insists he intends on staying with Mexico after being strongly linked with a return to England with Portsmouth.

The experienced Swede left the Premier League in 2008 when he was sacked by Manchester City.

The former England coach is now with Mexico and despite interest from Pompey, he insists he will not quit Mexico with the 2010 World Cup firmly on his mind.

"I always said I have contract until 2010, after the World Cup. In football, you never know what will happen but I have a contract," he said ahead of Mexico's World Cup qualifier against USA on Wednesday.

"I want to win tomorrow. I have always said that Mexico will be in South Africa.

"It's very important to start winning but I don't think that my future depends on getting a good result tomorrow, life will go on.

"If we lose, we will have nine more games to qualify to the World Cup. But I repeat: I'm not thinking about a defeat."

Flattered

Eriksson has been mentioned with both the Pompey and Chelsea jobs - which both became available on Monday.

And the Swede admits it is not a bad thing to have his name still mentioned when jobs became available.

"No, it's no distraction at all," Eriksson said "Myself and the team are only focused on what's going to happen tomorrow.

"But it's not bad to be linked with such good jobs. It's worse that they would never mention my name. So that's okay."

Eriksson was quick to dismiss the link with Chelsea.

"The only thing I can tell you is that if Chelsea wants me, I think the owner [Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich] will call me," Eriksson said.

"I know him very well. He has my number. I speak to him not regularly, but I know him personally. And I promise you he has not called me."

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