FIFA World Cup Players

[Spade_Cooley 9,527]

Talking of officials, one I only just found was still with us: Abraham Klein. Israeli ref who oversaw some of the most famous games in the tourny's history, including Brazil 1 - England 0 in 1970 and Italy 3 - Brazil 2 in 1982.

[ObakeFilter 902]

John McKenzie, part of the Scottish team which participated in the 1954 world cup, has died aged 91.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan/40504305

[YoungWillz 21,047]

33 minutes ago, ObakeFilter said:

John McKenzie, part of the Scottish team which participated in the 1954 world cup, has died aged 91.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan/40504305

The Firhill Flyer flies no more. RIP.

[ObakeFilter 902]

Heinz Schneiter, from the Swiss team of 1962 and 1966.

[charon 4,943]

Josef Hamerl at 86, played for Austria in the 58 WC.https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://kurier.at/sport/fussball/trauer-um-sport-club-legende-hamerl/275.413.859&prev=search

[YoungWillz 21,047]

Brazilian goalkeeper Waldir Peres who played 5 matches at the 1982 World Cup, dead at 66, heart attack. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fespn.uol.com.br%2Fnoticia%2F712912_idolo-do-sao-paulo-e-goleiro-da-copa-de-82-waldir-peres-morre-aos-66-anos&edit-text

[msc 18,474]

Dirceu, Socrates, Shengelia, Daraselia, Andriy Bal, Suslaparov, Sumner and I'm forgetting one or two names.

 

Two thoughts

 

1. How the fuck are Scotland the only team in that World Cup group not to suffer a playing fatality? We're fucking Scots!

 

2. With that growing list of early demises, you could make a theme team up from that one World Cup group: 1982: Scotland, New Zealand, USSR, Brazil.

 

Brazil being considered the best team to never win the Cup, that year, but they conceded a bunch of soft goals to Italy. Who was their keeper? Oh, right. RIP.

[YoungWillz 21,047]

Souness was on the verge with his recent heart attack.

 

Roughie and Brazil (the player) both obese these days - could go any time really.

 

As for the rest, a few years left in them, I'd say.

[Spade_Cooley 9,527]

Did Triple-O ever consider the fact that Willie McLean (USA, 1934) went missing? Admittedly, if he were still alive he'd be 113 this year so he probably is dead, but we don't have proof...

[Thatcher 2,417]

Abdelmajid Dolmy, Moroccan footballer who played for the national team at the 1986 World Cup, has died aged 64.

[YoungWillz 21,047]

On ‎7‎/‎6‎/‎2017 at 14:05, ObakeFilter said:

Heinz Schneiter, from the Swiss team of 1962 and 1966.

Hmm, Ely Tacchella, aged 81, also of the Swiss team of 1962 and 1966: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.24heures.ch%2Fsports%2Factu%2FLe-grand-defenseur-suisse-Ely-Tacchella-n-est-plus%2Fstory%2F25909464&edit-text

[Thatcher 2,417]

Elmer Acevedo, a Salvadoran footballer who played for the national team at the 1970 World Cup qualification round and subsequently as a non-playing member of the squad for the 1970 World Cup, has died aged 68. He scored a goal in one of the games against Honduras during the qualifiers, which exacerbated tensions of the Football War and caused riots. Additionally, he played for El Salvador at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic games.

[Spade_Cooley 9,527]

Romanian defender Nicolae Lupescu, who played in all three of their 1970 WC games including the losses to Brazil and England, dead at 76. His son was 90s national team mainstay Ioan Lupescu.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

World Cup commentator and journalist, Jimmy McGee, has died at 82.  Known as the "Memory Man", Magee spent over half a century in sports broadcasting.  He presented radio and television coverage of the Olympic Games from 1968 and the FIFA World Cup from 1966.  He provided commentary at eleven World Cups in total – his last coming at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
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[YoungWillz 21,047]

On ‎11‎/‎12‎/‎2015 at 15:09, Spade_Cooley said:

 

Dead at 84, leaving only József Tóth alive from the Mighty Magyars 1954 runner-up squad.

Not any more. Toth dead. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2F24.hu%2Fsport%2Ffoci%2F2017%2F10%2F09%2Fmeghalt-az-aranycsapat-csatara-toth-ii-jozsef%2F&edit-text=&act=url

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/József_Tóth_(footballer,_born_1929)

[charon 4,943]

On 07/06/2013 at 14:01, Spade_Cooley said:

Trying to work out which of the 1950s survivors would get obits. Obviously all of the English players, and both Bahr and Borghi played in the USA's 1-0 win over England. Ghiggia would be the oldest surviving World Cup winner (correct?), so he should be OK. Bonpietri is a top 100 player of all time imho, and Amadei is one of the top scorers in Serie A history so they should both manage it no problem. Most of the rest could depend on whether Jonathan Wilson has the time to write about them that week.

 

 

 

Doing some tidying up, and the goalscorer from the Yank / England games body was never found.

 

Defo dead/killed, but interesting none the less.

 

Never was an american citizen either.

 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gaetjens

[charon 4,943]

On 07/06/2013 at 14:01, Spade_Cooley said:

Trying to work out which of the 1950s survivors would get obits. Obviously all of the English players, and both Bahr and Borghi played in the USA's 1-0 win over England. Ghiggia would be the oldest surviving World Cup winner (correct?), so he should be OK. Bonpietri is a top 100 player of all time imho, and Amadei is one of the top scorers in Serie A history so they should both manage it no problem. Most of the rest could depend on whether Jonathan Wilson has the time to write about them that week.

 

 

 

Doing some tidying up, and the goalscorer from the Yank / England games body was never found.

 

Defo dead/killed, but interesting none the less.

 

Never was an american citizen either.

 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gaetjens

[msc 18,474]

"I'm a star, they wont be interested in killing me" - what I imagine his famous last words were.

[charon 4,943]

Or 'I look white, I'm safe'....

[Spade_Cooley 9,527]

Cho Jin-ho, played in South Korea's 3-2 loss to Germany in the 1994 World Cup, dead at 44. Up until the summer he'd been manager of Korean second division outfit Busan IPark.

[msc 18,474]

On 12/28/2016 at 11:25, msc said:

Did I ever do that List of Living World Cup managers I was planning? I might have got distracted...

 

Apparently I did get distracted. By a few years.

 

Better late than never, living World Cup managers, sorted by age.

 

 

Year of birth - name (World Cup years and country managed)

 

1.       1916 – Ignacio Trelles (1962 and 1966, Mexico)

 

 

2.       1926 – Myung Rye-hyun (1966, N Korea)

 

 

3.       1928 – Hernan Carrasco Vivanco (1970, El Salvador)

 

 

4.       1929 – Jose Santamaria (1982, Spain)

Omar Borras (1986, Uruguay)

 

 

5.       1931 – Mario Zagallo (1970 and 98, Brazil)

Billy Bingham (1982 and 1986, N Ireland)

 

 

6.       1933 – Michel Hidalgo (1978 and 1982, France)

Evaristo de Macedo (1986, Iraq)

 

 

7.       1934 – Azeglio Vicini (1990, Italy)

 

 

8.       1935 – Rale Rasic (1974, Australia)

Luis Suarez (Spain, 1990)

Jack Charlton (Ireland 1990/4)

Miroslav Blazevic (Croatia 1998)

 

 

9.       1936 – Heshmat Mohajerani (1978, Iran) (circa 1936)

Rachid Mekhloufi (1982, Algeria)

Jozef Venglos (1982 and 1990, Czechoslovakia)

 

 

10.   1937 – Tony Waiters (1986, Canada)

Emerich Jenei (1990 Romania)

Otto Pfister (Togo 2006)

 

 

11.   1938 – Cesar Menotti (1978, Argentina)

Adegboye Onigbinde (Nigeria 2002)

Otto Rehhagel (Greece 2010)

 

 

12.   1939 – Jacek Gmoch (1978, Poland)

Abdelmajid Chetali (1978, Tunisia)

Carlos Bilardo (Argentina 1986 and 1990)

Ivan Vutsov (1986, Bulgaria)

Robert Waseige (Belgium 2002)

Giovanni Trapattoni (Italy 2002)

Karel Bruckner (Czech Republic 2006)

 

 

13.   1940 – Jose Ucles (1982, Honduras)

Sepp Piontek (1986, Denmark)

Clemens Westerhof (Nigeria 1994)

Craig Brown (Scotland 1998)

Mirko Jozic (Croatia 2002)

 

 

14.   1941 – Kalman Meszoly (1982, Hungary)

Alex Ferguson (1986, Scotland)

Gyorgy Mezey (1986, Hungary)

Ivica Osim (Yugoslavia 1990)

Bob Gansler (USA 1990)

Jorge Solari (Saudi Arabia 1994)

Aime Jacquet (France 1998)

Roger Lemerre (France 2002 Tunisia 2006)

 

 

15.   1942 – John Adshead (1982, New Zealand)

Antoini Piechniczek (1982 and 1986, Poland),

Felix Latzke (1982, Austria)

Leo Beenhakker (Holland 1990, Saudi Arabia 1994, Trinidad and Tobago 2006)

Egil Olsen (Norway 1994, 98)

Bo Johansson (Denmark 1998)

Jalal Talebi (Iran 1998)

 

 

16.   1943 – Carlos Alberto Parreira (1982 Kuwait, 1990 UAE, 1994 and 2006 Brazil, 1998 Saudi Arabia, 2010 South Africa),

Kim jung-nam (1986, South Korea),

Andy Roxburgh (Scotland 1990),

Valery Nepomnyashchy (Cameroon 1990),

Alfio Basile (Argentina 1994),

Paul Van Himst (Belgium 1994),

Kobi Kuhn (Switzerland 2006)

 

 

17.   1944 – Mahieddine Khalef (1982, Algeria),

Bora Milutinovic (1986, Mexico; 1990, Costa Rica; 1994, USA; 1998; Nigeria; 2002, China) ,

Kim Ho (South Korea 1994),

Miguel Baron (Mexico 1994),

Nelson Acosta (Chile 1998),

Manuel Lapuente (Mexico 1998)

 

 

18.   1945 – Pipo Rodriguez (1982, El Salvador),

Franz Beckenbauer (West Germany 1986 and 1990)

Dimitar Penev (Bulgaria 1994),

Tommy Svensson (Sweden 1994),

Ilija Petkovic (2006 Serbia Montenegro)

 

 

19.   1946 – Rabah Saadane (1986 and 2010, Algeria),

Lee Hoe-taik (Sout Korea 1990),

Arrigo Sacchi (Italy 1994),

Berti Vogts (Grmany 1994, 98),

Guus Hiddink (Holland 1998, South Korea 2002, Australia 2006),

Henryk Kasperczak (Tunisia 1998),

Nasser Al-Johar (Saudi Arabia 2002),

Ratomir Dujkovic (Ghana 2006),

Fabio Capello (England 2010, Russia 2014)

 

 

20.   1947 – Henri Michel (1986, France, Cameroon 1994, Morocco 1998,  2006, Cote D’Ivoire),

Oscar Tabarez (1990, 2010 and 2014, Uruguay),

Dick Advocaat (Holland 1994, South Korea 2006),

Roy Hodgson (Swiss 1994 England 2014),

Hristo Bonev (Bulgaria 1998)

 

 

21.   1948 – Josef Hickersberger (Austria 1990),

Claude le Roy (Cameroon 1998),

Sven-Goran Eriksson (England 2002, 2006, Cote D’Ivoire 2010),

Tommy Soderberg (Sweden 2002),

Luis Felipe Scolari (Brazil 2002, Portugal 2006, Brazil 2014),

Lars Lagerback (Sweden 2002, 2006, Nigeria 2010),

Marcello Lippi (Italy 2006, 2010),

Raddy Antic (Serbia 2010),

Volker Finke (Cameroon 2014)

 

 

22.   1949 – Olle Nordin (Sweden 1990),

Francisco Maturana (Colombia 1990 and 1994),

Carpegiani (Paraguay 1998),

Georges Leekens (Belgium 1998),

Morten Olsen (Denmark 2002, 2010),

Jose Pekerman (Argentina 2006, Colombia 2014),

Ottmar Hitzfeld (Switzerland 2010, 2014)

 

 

23.   1950 – Sebastiao Lazaroni (1990 Brazil),

Javier Clemente (Spain 1994 and 98),

Anghel Iordanescu (Romania 1994 and 98),

Winfried Schafer (Cameroon 2002),

Vicente del Bosque (Spain 2010, 2014)

 

 

24.   1951 – Bruce Arena (USA 2002, 2006),

Louis Van Gaal (Netherlands 2014)

 

 

25.   1952 – Rene Simoes (Jamaica 1998),

Jerzy Engel (Poland 2002),

Senol Gunes (Turkey 2002),

Antonio Oliveira (Portugal 2002),

Ricardo la Volpe (Mexico 2006),

Raymond Domenech (France 2006, 2010),

Oleh Blokhin (Ukraine 2006),

Jose Luis Pinto (Costa Rica 2014),

Vahid Halihodzic (Algeria 2014)

 

 

26.   1953 – Xabier Azkargorta (1994 Bolivia),

Cha Bum-kun (South Korea 1998),

Daniel Passarella (Argentina 1998),

Alberto Zaccheroni (Japan 2014),

Zico (Japan 2006)

Pawel Janas (Poland 2006),

Carlos Queiroz (Portugal 2010, Iran 2014)

 

 

27.   1954 – Oleg Romantsev (Russia 2002),

Branko Ivankovic (Iran 2006),

Milovan Rajevac (Ghana 2010),

Alejandro Sabella (Argentina 2014),

Fernando Santos (Greece 2014)

 

 

28.   1955 – Philippe Troussier (South Africa 1998, Japan 2002).

Herbert Prohaska (Austria 1998),

Jose Camacho (Spain 2002),

Marcelo Bielsa (Argentina 2002 Chile 2010),

Jomo Sono (South Africa 2002),

Huh Jung-moo (South Korea 2010),

Safet Susic (Bosnia 2014)

 

 

29.   1956 – Hernan Gomez (Colombia 1998, Ecuador 2002),

Mohammed Al-Kharashy (Saudi Arabia 1998),

Takeshi Okada (Japan 1998, 2010),

Victor Pua (Uruguay 2002),

Zlatko Kranjcar (Croatia 2006),

Kim jong-hun (North Korea 2010),

Pim Verbeek (Australia 2010)

 

 

30.   1957 – Glenn Hoddle (England 1998),

Steve Sampson (USA 1998),

Ammar Souayah (Tunisia 2002),

Reinaldo Rueda (Honduras 2010, Ecuador 2014),

Cesare Prandelli (Italy 2014)

 

 

31.   1958 – Kim Pyung-seok (South Korea 1998),

Javier Aguirre (Mexico 2002, 2010),

Marcos Paqueta (Saudi Arabia 2006),

Bob Bradley (USA 2010)

 

 

32.   1959 – Alexandre Guimaraes (Costa Rica 2002, 2006),

Mick McCarthy (Ireland 2002),

Luis Fernando Suarez (Ecuador 2006, Honduras 2014)

 

 

33.   1960 – Rudi Voller (Germany 2002),

Oliveira Goncalves (Angola 2006),

Diego Maradona (Argentina 2010),

Joachim Low (Germany 2010, 2014),

Jorge Sampaoli (Chile 2014)

, James Kwesi Appiah (Ghana 2014)

 

 

34.   1961 – Ricki Herbert (New Zealand 2010),

Matjaz Kek (Slovenia 2010)

 

 

35.   1962 – Gerardo Martino (Paraguay 2010)

 

 

36.   1963 – Srecko Katanec (Slovenia 2002)

Dunga (2010)

 

 

37.   1964 – Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany 2006 USA 2014),

Marco van Basten (Holland 1964),

Paul le Guen (Cameroon 2010),

Vladimir Weiss (Slovakia 2010)

 

 

38.   1965 – Ange Postecoglou (Australia 2014)

 

 

39.   1968 – Miguel Herrera (Mexico 2014),

Didier Deschamps (France 2014)

 

 

40.   1969 – Marc Wilmots (Belgium 2014),

Hong Myung-bo (south Korea 2014),

Paulo Bento (Portugal 2014)

 

 

41.   1971 – Sabri Lamouchi (Cote D’Ivoire 2014),

Niko Kovac (Croatia 2014)

 

 

 

 

Side Notes:

 

Octavio Vial (Mexico, 1950) born 1918/19 - if he's alive.

Antoine Tassy (1974, Haiti) 1924 – is likely dead as I’ve seen a reference to someone visiting his grave, but no idea when.

Ali Selmi (Tunisia 1998 for one match) – unknown DOB.

 

 

It could be separated by World Cup, but by age might help the deadpooler in need.

 

[Spade_Cooley 9,527]

I think Octavio Vial might be alive? He's apparently a major club legend at Club America in Mexico, and this 2013 story refers to him in the present tense throughout. There's no story about him dying recently out there either. 

[Spade_Cooley 9,527]

Marino Perani: only four caps for Italy, but one of them came in the infamous 1-0 defeat to North Korea in 1966. Dead at 77. He was part of the vaguely legendary Bologna team of the early 60s that won the Scudetto in 64.

[YoungWillz 21,047]

On ‎7‎/‎15‎/‎2013 at 00:11, Octopus of Odstock said:

1954 survivors (including non-playing members of the squad)
*snip*

West Germany

No......Pos......Player..................DoB/Age........................................................Caps.......Club

6........3MF......Horst Eckel..........(1932-02-08)8 February 1932 (aged 22)......8.............1. FC Kaiserslautern
20......4FW.....Hans Schäfer.......(1927-10-19)19 October 1927 (aged 26)......5.............1. FC Köln

*snip*

Hans Schafer has died aged 90. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.express.de%2Fsport%2Ffussball%2F1--fc-koeln%2Ftrauer-um-weltmeister-fc-legende-hans-schaefer-gestorben-28780214&edit-text

 

DDP Pick. Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/nov/07/hans-schafer-obituary

[time 8,602]

Former Belgian football Denis Dasoul killed by lightning strike while surfing.

 

Edit: wrong thread, should be in time added!