Below are the squads for the
1978 FIFA World Cup final tournament in
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
.
Group 1
Argentina
Head coach:
César Luis Menotti
César Luis Menotti (; born 5 November 1938), known as ''El Flaco'' ("Slim"), is an Argentine former football manager and player who won the 1978 FIFA World Cup as the head coach of the Argentina national team.
During his playing days, he pl ...
Note that this squad is numbered alphabetically by surname, unlike traditional numbering systems where the
goalkeeper
In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...
has shirt number 1 and so forth.
France
Head coach:
Michel Hidalgo
Michel François Hidalgo (22 March 1933 – 26 March 2020) was a French professional footballer and manager. He was the head coach of the French national team from 1976 to 1984, with whom he won the UEFA Euro 1984 on home soil, also reaching th ...
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 19 ...
Italy
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 ...
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
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 ...
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
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* 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
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
Ernst Franz Hermann Happel (29 November 1925 – 14 November 1992) was an Austrian football player and manager.
Happel is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, winning both league and domestic cup titles in the Netherlands, Belg ...
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
Scotland
Manager:
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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