The

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tournament at the

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started on July 29 and ended on August 11. It was the first Olympic football competition in which professionals were officially allowed. Until then, the amateur-only rule had heavily favored socialist countries from the Soviet Bloc whose players were professionals in all but name. However, as agreed with FIFA to preserve the primacy of the

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, the Olympic competition was restricted to players with no more than five "A"

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s at tournament start, regardless of age.

Group A

Chile

Head coach: Pedro Morales Torres

France

Head coach: Henri Michel

Norway

Due to the boycott of the Olympics, Norway took part in place of East Germany.
Head coach: Tor Røste Fossen

Qatar

Head coach:

Evaristo de Macedo Evaristo de Macedo Filho, (born 22 June 1933, in Rio de Janeiro), known simply as Evaristo, is a Brazilian former footballer and coach. Club career Madureira (1950–1952) Raised in the north of Rio de Janeiro, Evaristo, like many children, play ...

Group B

Cameroon

Head coach:

Radivoje Ognjanović Radivoje Ognjanović (; 1 July 1933 – 30 August 2011) was a Yugoslav and Serbian football manager and player. Club career After briefly playing for Partizan, Ognjanović made a name for himself at Radnički Beograd, totaling 153 appearances ...

Canada

Head coach:

Tony Waiters Anthony Keith Waiters (1 February 1937 – 5 November 2020) was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is better known for his coaching career in Canada. He managed the Vancouver Whitecaps to an NASL championship, and was in charg ...

Iraq

Head coach:

Ammo Baba Emmanuel Baba Dawud (27 November 1934 – 27 May 2009), better known as Ammo Baba ( ar, عمو بابا, syr, ܥܡܘ ܒܒܐ), was an Iraqi Assyrian football player and coach of the Iraq national football team. He scored the first international ...

Yugoslavia

The following is the Yugoslavia squad in the men's football tournament of the 1984 Summer Olympics. Coach:

Ivan Toplak Ivan Toplak (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Toплaк; 21 September 1931 – 25 July 2021) was a Serbian football player and manager. Toplak played for NK Olimpija Ljubljana and Red Star Belgrade, with whom he had much success. As a player he also r ...

Group C

Brazil

Head coach:

Jair Picerni Jair Picerni (born October 20, 1944) is a Brazilian football manager and former player, who played as a right back. With São Caetano, Picerni was twice runner-up of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (2000 and 2001) and a Copa Libertadores ...

Morocco

Head coach: José Faria

Saudi Arabia

Head coach: Khalil Al-Zayani

West Germany

Due to the boycott of the Olympics, West Germany took part in place of the Soviet Union.
Head coach:

Erich Ribbeck Erich Ribbeck (born 13 June 1937) is a German former professional football player and manager, best known for coaching in the Bundesliga. In 1988, he won the UEFA Cup as manager of Bayer Leverkusen, the first title in the club's history. Club c ...

Group D

Costa Rica

Head coach: Antonio Moyano

Egypt

Head coach: Mawser Fat'hi

Italy

Due to the boycott of the Olympics, Italy took part in place of Czechoslovakia.
Head coach:

Enzo Bearzot Enzo Bearzot (; 26 September 1927 – 21 December 2010) was an Italian professional football player and manager. A defender and midfielder, he led the Italy national team to victory in the 1982 FIFA World Cup. Nicknamed ''Vecio'' (standard I ...

United States

Head coach:

Alketas Panagoulias Alketas 'Alkis' Panagoulias ( el, Αλκέτας 'Άλκης' Παναγούλιας; 30 May 1934 – 18 June 2012) was a Greek association football player and manager. He managed the national teams of both Greece and the United States. He also ...

References

External links

FIFA
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