1978_FIFA_World_Cup_squads

1978 FIFA World Cup squads

1978 FIFA World Cup squads

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Below are the squads for the 1978 FIFA World Cup final tournament in Argentina.

Group 1

Argentina

Head coach: César Luis Menotti

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Note that this squad is numbered alphabetically by surname, unlike traditional numbering systems where the goalkeeper has shirt number 1 and so forth.

France

Head coach: Michel Hidalgo

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Hungary

Head coach: Lajos Baróti

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Italy

Head coach: Enzo Bearzot

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Note: With the exception of the goalkeepers, who were assigned the traditional shirt numbers for the role (1, 12 and 22) the Italian team was numbered alphabetically within their respective positions – Defenders (from 2 to 8), Midfielders (from 9 to 15), Wingers (16 and 17) and Forwards (from 18 to 21).

Group 2

Mexico

Head coach: José Antonio Roca

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Poland

Head coach: Jacek Gmoch

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Tunisia

Head coach: Abdelmajid Chetali

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West Germany

Head coach: Helmut Schön

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Group 3

Austria

Head coach: Helmut Senekowitsch

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Brazil

Head coach: Cláudio Coutinho

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Spain

Head coach: Hungary Ladislao Kubala

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Sweden

Head coach: Georg Ericson

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Group 4

Iran

Head coach: Heshmat Mohajerani

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Netherlands

Head coach: Austria Ernst Happel

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Jan Jongbloed wore number 8 because some of the players who had been in the Dutch squad at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, where the Netherlands used a purely alphabetical numbering system, were given the same numbers again in 1978. Hugo Hovenkamp withdrew from the squad before the tournament began, but after the deadline for naming replacement players had passed. The Netherlands thus went to the World Cup with only 21 players.

Peru

Head coach: Marcos Calderón

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Scotland

Manager: Ally MacLeod

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Notes

Each national team had to submit a squad of 22 players. All the teams included 3 goalkeepers, except Mexico who only called two.


References

  1. Tarantini left clubless after a contractual dispute with Boca Juniors, six months before the World Cup.
  2. Hugo Hovenkamp withdrew due to injury. As the deadline for calling up replacement players had passed, the Netherlands went to the World Cup with 21 players only.
  3. Willie Johnston was sent home for failing a drug test after the first match against Peru.

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