Below are the rosters for the
1985 FIFA World Youth Championship
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tournament in
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. Those marked in bold went on to earn full international caps.
Group A
Head coach:
Boris Angelov
Head coach:
Luis Marroquín
Head coach:
Bertalan Bicskei
Bertalan Bicskei (17 September 1944 – 16 July 2011) was a Hungarian football goalkeeper and manager.
Playing career
As a youth player, he played for the most famous Hungarian club side, Ferencváros, and he also honed his skills in Honved ...
Head coach:
Mrad Mahjoub
Mrad Mahjoub (born 1945) is a Tunisian football manager. He managed Tunisia at the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship and later the full national team, as well as Tunisia's largest football clubs.
References
1945 births
Living people
Tu ...
Group B
Head coach:
Gilson Nunes
Head coach:
Liam Tuohy
Head coach:
Oswaldo Sempaio
Head coach:
Jesús Pereda
Group C
Head coach:
Jim Shoulder
James Shoulder (born 11 September 1946) is an English former football manager and player. Most notably, he was manager of the Australian national team from 1976 to 1978.
As a player, Shoulder spent time at Sunderland, Scarborough and Hartlepo ...
Head coach:
Bob Bearpark
Robert Bearpark (March 15, 1943 – November 18, 1996) was a Canadian soccer head coach.
Born in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, Bearpark played soccer as a youth for Bristol City and Bath. He moved to Canada when he was 32 and enrolled as a gradua ...
* Player 18 is also called Larry or Harry Houle in some sources.
Head coach:
Paul Hamilton
Head coach:
Sergei Mosyagin
Group D
Head coach:
Zhang Zhicheng
Zhang Zhicheng (born 1 July 1963) is a Chinese fencer. He competed in the individual and team foil events at the 1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known a ...
Head coach:
Dave Sexton
David James Sexton (6 April 1930 – 25 November 2012) was an English football manager and player. He was notable for managing Chelsea to their first ever major European trophy.
Playing career
Son of former professional boxer Archie Sext ...
* Only 16 players in England squad. Goalkeeper (N°1)
Tim Flowers
Timothy David Flowers (born 3 February 1967) is an English football manager and former player who recently was the manager of Stratford Town.
He played as a goalkeeper from 1984 until 2003, notably in the Premier League for Blackburn Rovers w ...
03/02/1967
Wolverhampton Wanderers
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England and forward (N°11)
Ian Marshall 20/03/1966
Everton England were cut from the final squad and not replaced.
Head coach:
Jesús del Muro
José de Jesús del Muro López (30 November 1937 – 4 October 2022) was a Mexican football coach and player.
During his career he played as a defender for Atlas (1954–1965), Veracruz (1965), Cruz Azul (1966 and 1971) and Toluca (1969 and ...
Head coach:
Salvador Breglia
References
FIFA pages on 1985 World Youth Cup
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Fifa World Youth Championship Squads, 1985
FIFA U-20 World Cup squads