Career
He has worked with several national teams, including England, Sweden, Indonesia, Mexico and Ivory Coast. As of 2016, he is the assistant manager of the Kosovo national football team Grip began his football career as an teenager playing for Ytterhogdals IK, in which he as most football players of his generation also played bandy, later playing part-time in the top flight for Degerfors IF and AIK while studying for his degree in Physical Education.
He became an 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 South.S. Lazio, as the assistant of fellow Swedish manager Sven-Göran Eriksson.
In November 2006, Grip was appointed Special Advisor to the Swedish club Djurgårdens IF. On 6 July 2007, Grip became part of the Manchester City backroom staff when Sven-Göran 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. In June 2008, Grip was again reunited with Eriksson, after accepting an offer to become assistant manager of the Mexico national team
In April 2009, after Eriksson was fired by the Mexico Football Federation due to an bad string of results, Eriksson and Grip took up the positions of Director of Football and General Advisor to the Director of Football at N ottinghamshire County respectively.
Grip is currently an freelance senior squad scout for Premiership team Southampton. In February 2014, he was appointed as assistant manager of Kosovo.