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Growing up in Malmo, a city in southern Sweden, he played street football with other kids and lived next door to an Englishman who encouraged him to watch the Premier League on TV.

Like most children in that region, Jeglertz was in a football club by the age of five, and in that "safe environment" he grew up obsessed with sport, unlike his younger brother.

"[He] wasn't competitive - he played football but he didn't have that big interest in it like I had," Jeglertz says. "I always wanted to train a lot and have always been a very determined person. I thought: 'I want to be on this level, I want to reach this.'

"I wanted training to be a proper format, not just to do things randomly - I've never been good in that. It has to be with some structure. It's still like that."

The 54-year-old watched local team Malmo with his father and was in the Munich stands when they lost 1-0 to Nottingham Forest in the 1979 European Cup final.

"My dad is a big football fan. He played when he was younger so we went to a lot of games in my hometown," he says. "I remember watching games in the stadium and we went every weekend. It's always been a part of my life."

When Jeglertz became a professional he played for Malmo, but soon realised he would not make it to the top, despite earning three caps for Sweden Under-21s.

It was then that he began studying to become a teacher, taking after his mother and following his "curiosity to get to know people".

"When I realised I was not going to be as good as I had hoped for, that was tough - but I really loved the sport," he adds.

"I educated myself as a teacher. I really loved the relationship between people and wanted to combine that, so continue working inside football and with people.

"Coaching was quite natural to go into. I was interested in the game already and I was always captain or had a leading role."

Outside of football, Jeglertz is a devoted father. He married former footballer Ulrika and they have two children - daughter Cornelia and a son, Adam.

When Cornelia was a baby, the Jeglertz family moved to Umea in eastern Sweden and into a small neighbourhood two miles outside the main city.

It was where Jeglertz took on his first major managerial role, going on to win the Champions League in 2004 with a squad that included Brazil legend Marta.