Below are the squads for the
1970 FIFA World Cup
The 1970 FIFA World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's senior national teams. Held from 31 May t ...
final tournament in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. Sweden (6), West Germany (2) and Czechoslovakia (1) had players representing foreign clubs.
Group 1
Mexico
Head coach:
Raúl Cárdenas
Raúl Cárdenas de la Vega (30 October 1928 – 26 March 2016) was a Mexican professional footballer and manager. He represented Mexico at the 1948 Olympics.
Playing career Club
Born in Mexico City, Cárdenas began playing football with Real C ...
Soviet Union
Head coach:
Gavril Kachalin
Gavriil Dmitriyevich Kachalin (russian: Гавриил Дмитриевич Качалин; 17 January 1911 – 23 May 1995) was a Soviet and Russian football player and coach.
He led the USSR national football team to their greatest achieveme ...
Belgium
Head coach:
Raymond Goethals
Raymond Goethals (, ; 7 October 1921 – 6 December 2004) was a Belgian football coach who led Marseille to victory in the UEFA Champions League final in 1993, becoming the first and only coach to win a European trophy with a French club.
Someti ...
El Salvador
Head coach:
Hernán Carrasco
Hernán Carrasco Vivanco (29 March 1923 – 10 September 2023) was a Chilean football manager.
Career
Carrasco created a legacy in El Salvador by winning five Primera División titles with Alianza F.C. in 1966, 1967, 1989 and CONCACAF Champio ...
Group 2
Italy
Head coach:
Ferruccio Valcareggi
Ferruccio Valcareggi (; 12 February 1919 – 2 November 2005) was an Italian football player and coach, who played as a midfielder.
Playing career
Valcareggi was born in Trieste, on 12 February 1919. A right–sided, offensive–minded, centra ...
Sweden
Head coach:
Orvar Bergmark
Orvar Bergmark (16 November 1930 – 10 May 2004) was a Swedish football defender, manager and bandy player. He was the second Swedish national manager ever, and managed to qualify the Swedish national football team for the FIFA World Cup ...
Uruguay
Head coach:
Juan Hohberg
Juan Eduardo Hohberg (8 October 1926 – 30 April 1996) was an Argentine-born Uruguayan football player and coach. He is best remembered as a player for Peñarol (1949-59) where he won 6 Uruguayan Primera División title wins (1949, 1951, 1953, 1 ...
Israel
Head coach:
Emmanuel Scheffer
Emmanuel Scheffer ( he, עמנואל שפר; 1 February 1924 – 28 December 2012) was an Israeli football player and coach who was born in Germany.
He was twice the manager of the Israel national football team (1968–70, 1978–79), led ...
Group 3
Brazil
Head coach:
Mário Zagallo
Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo (; born 9 August 1931) is a Brazilian former professional football player, coordinator and manager, who played as a forward.
Zagallo holds the record for World Cup titles in general with four titles in total. He was t ...
England
Head coach:
Alf Ramsey
Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey (22 January 1920 – 28 April 1999) was an English football player and manager. As a player, he represented the England national team and captained the side, but he is best known for his time as England manager fr ...
Czechoslovakia
Head coach:
Jozef Marko
Jozef Marko (25 May 1923 – 26 September 1996) was a Slovak football player and coach. He played for FC Spartak Trnava. He earned 9 caps for the Czechoslovakia national football team. Most notably he was the manager of the Czechoslovakia nation ...
Romania
Head coach:
Angelo Niculescu
Angelo Niculescu (1 October 1921 – 20 June 2015) was a Romanian football player and manager. He was the coach of the Romania national football team during the 1970 FIFA World Cup. He is best remembered in Romania for inventing the "temporizar ...
Group 4
West Germany
Head coach:
Helmut Schön
Helmut Schön (15 September 1915 – 23 February 1996) was a German football player and manager. He is best remembered for his exceptional career as manager of the West German national team in four consecutive World Cup tournaments, including ...
Peru
Head coach:
Didi
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Bulgaria
Head coach:
Stefan Bozhkov
Stefan Bozhilov Stefanov ( bg, Стефан Божилов Стефанов; 20 September 1923 – 1 February 2014) was a Bulgarian football player and coach. He usually played the position of midfielder.
Career
Born in Sofia, Bozhkov first star ...
The Georgi Kamenski replacement to Yordan Filipov in at the last moment by injury
Morocco
Head coach:
Blagoje Vidinić
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Note: Only 19 players in Morocco squad.
References
Planet World Cup website* weltfussball.d
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FIFA World Cup squads
Squads
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