Below are the squads for the
1978 FIFA World Cup
The 1978 FIFA World Cup was the 11th edition of the FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football world championship tournament among the men's senior national teams. It was held in Argentina between 1 and 25 June.
The Cup was won by t ...
final tournament in
Argentina.
Group 1
Argentina
Head coach:
César Luis Menotti
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
Hungary
Head coach:
Lajos Baróti
Lajos Baróti (; 19 August 1914 – 23 December 2005) was a Hungarian football player and manager. With eleven major titles he is one of the outstanding coaches of his era.
Career
Baróti played from 1928 until 1946 for Szegedi AK and from 194 ...
Italy
Head coach:
Enzo Bearzot
Group 2
Mexico
Head coach:
José Antonio Roca
José Antonio Roca García (24 May 1928 – 4 May 2007) was a Mexican football player and manager.
Life and career
Born in Mexico City, Roca played football for Asturias F.C., Club Necaxa, Zacatepec and Atlante F.C.
After he retired from pl ...
Poland
Head coach:
Jacek Gmoch
Jacek Wojciech Gmoch (born 13 January 1939 in Pruszków) is a former Polish footballer, who later became a trainer and manager of the Poland National Team.
While having a successful football career he graduated in communication from the Warsaw ...
Tunisia
Head coach:
Abdelmajid Chetali
Abdelmajid Al-Chetali ( ar, عبد المجيد الشتالي; born 4 July 1939) is a Tunisian football coach and former player who played a total of 70 games with the national team and scored four goals. He also participated in the 1960 Summ ...
West Germany
Head coach:
Helmut Schön
Group 3
Austria
Head coach:
Helmut Senekowitsch
Helmut Senekowitsch (; 22 October 1933 – 9 September 2007) was an Austrian football player and later a football manager.
Playing career
Club career
He played for several clubs, including SK Sturm Graz, Real Betis and FC Wacker Innsbruck.
I ...
Brazil
Head coach:
Cláudio Coutinho
Cláudio Pêcego de Moraes Coutinho (5 January 1939 – 27 November 1981) was a Brazilian football manager who coached Brazil from 1977 to 1980 and Los Angeles Aztecs in 1981. He died as a result of a scuba diving accident at Rio de Janeiro.
Mi ...
Spain
Head coach:
Ladislao Kubala
Ladislao is a given name, a Hispanic variant of Vladislav. Notable people with the name include:
* Ladislao Cabrera, Bolivian hero during the War of the Pacific
* Ladislao Diwa, Filipino patriot
* Ladislao Martínez, Puerto Rico musician
* Lászl ...
Sweden
Head coach:
Georg Ericson
Georg "Åby" Ericson (18 December 1919 – 4 January 2002), also nicknamed Jojje, was a Swedish football player and coach. During his playing career as a midfielder he played for IFK Norrköping in the 1940s. He also featured once for the Swede ...
Group 4
Iran
Head coach:
Heshmat Mohajerani
Heshmatollah Mohajerani ( fa, , born 13 December 1939) is a retired Iranian association football midfielder and manager.
Early life and playing career
Mohajerani was born to Asadoolah Mohajerani and Leila Nassiri in a family of six siblings ...
Netherlands
Head coach:
Ernst Happel
Jan Jongbloed wore number 8 because some of the players who had been in the Dutch squad at the
1974 FIFA World Cup
The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the tenth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the ...
, 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
Marcos Calderón (11 July 1928 – 8 December 1987) was a Peruvian football coach and player. During his tenure the Peru national team won the Copa América 1975 and reached the second round of the 1978 World Cup.Ally MacLeod
Alistair Reid "Ally" MacLeod (26 February 1931 – 1 February 2004) was a Scottish professional football player and manager. He is perhaps best known for his time as the Scotland national football team manager, including their appearance at t ...
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
Planet World Cup website* weltfussball.d
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