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RIP to another great Scotland manager

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10 minutes ago, RIP Wee Jum said:

RIP to another great Scotland manager

There has been more than one?

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12 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

There has been more than one?

Current incumbent doing rather well I'd say.

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25 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

There has been more than one?

Wattie Smith got Scotland to 13th in the World. Very good for us

 

Arguably Scotlands best ever manager

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UPDATE after Craig Brown’s death :

Last surviving (and still living) coaches [until 1990 - names of living coaches are included]:

1998 - 30/35 [Nations - 27/32]

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4 minutes ago, Sinbabad said:
UPDATE after Craig Brown’s death :

Last surviving (and still living) coaches [until 1990 - names of living coahces are included]:
1974 - 2/16 (Rale Rasic, Australia; Mario Zagallo, Brazil)

Rale Rasic died earlier this month.

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So sad to hear of Craig Brown passing away :(  Great manager and good guy

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Oscar Arizaga, who was in Peru’s squad at the 1982 World Cup, has died aged 65 on 26th June. He was an unused substitute as Peru was eliminated in group stage.

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Christian Dalger, who was a member of France’s squad for the 1978 World Cup, has died aged 73. He only played the first match against Italy. This was his sixth and last cap with France.

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10 hours ago, Sinbabad said:

Christian Dalger, who was a member of France’s squad for the 1978 World Cup, has died aged 73. He only played the first match against Italy. This was his sixth and last cap with France.

Along with Papi, Dropsy and Michel, he is the 4th player of the French 1978 WC squad to pass away

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1978 players whose deaths were unnoticed on this forum (on this topic or in Time Added) :

 

Mexican Carlos Gomez Casillas died on 16  December 2017 aged 65. He only played Mexico’s third and last match against Poland.

 

German Rolf Russman died on 2 October 2019 aged 58. He played the whole 6 games of West Germany as they were eliminated in the second group stage.


Austrian Eduard ‘Edi’ Krieger died on 20 December 2019 aged 73. He played 5 of Austria’s 6 games, as they were knocked out in the second group stage.


His teammate Peter Persidis died on 21 January 2009 aged 61. He was an unused substitute by Austria.

 

Brazilian Chicao died on 8 October 2008 aged 59. He played 3 matches out of 7.

 

Iranian goalkeeper Nasser Hejazi died on 23 May 2011 aged 61. He played Iran’s all 3 games for their first participation in a World Cup.

 

Dutch goalkeeper Pim Doesburg died on 18 November 2020 aged 77. He was an unused substitute.

 

Peruvian goalkeeper Ottorino Sartor died on 2 June 2021 aged 75. He was an unused substitute.

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I wonder how many of theoretical 1978 England squad would have died had they qualified. 
 

Of the four matches England played in May 1978 the following players involved

are still alive 

 

Peter Shilton

Mick Mills

Dave Watson

Stephen Coppell 

Trevor Francis 

Bob Latchford 

Trevor Brooking

Peter Barnes 

Tony Currie 

Tony Woodcock

Stuart Pearson 

Joe Corrigan

Phil Neal 

Kevin Keegan

 

Dead. 
Trevor Cherry 

Brian Greenhoff

Ray Wilkins 

Paul Mariner 

Ray Clemence 

Emlyn Hughes 


 

 

 

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List of finalists players :

 

1930-1958 : all dead

 

1962 : Amarildo for Brazil and Josef Jelinek for Czechoslovakia are alive 

 

1966 : Geoff Hurst alive for England, 6 dead for Germany 

 

1970 : 4 dead for Brazil, 4 dead for Italy 

 

1974 : 4 dead for Germany, 5 dead for Netherlands 

 

1978 : 2 dead for Argentina, 5 dead for Netherlands 

 

1982 : 2 dead for Italy, all German are alive

 

1986 : 3 dead for Argentina, 1 dead for Germany 

 

1990 : only Andreas Brehme for Germany and Diego Maradona for Argentina are dead

 

1994-2022 : all finalists are alive

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A theoretical list of  English squad contenders  for the 1974 World Cup has a lot of dead players.  
 

Dead

Paul Madely 

Emlyn Hughes 

Colin Bell 

Norman Hunter

Martin Peters

Bobby Moore 

 Peter Osgood 

Alan Ball
 

Alive

Peter Shilton 

 Roy McFarland

Tony Currie 

Mick Channon 

Martin Chivers 

Allan Clarke 

Kevin Keegan 

Kevin Hector 

 

 

 

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The England 1970 World Cup squad must have been one of the more unlucky ones as four died in their 50’s. 

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On 04/07/2023 at 00:52, The Old Crem said:

A theoretical list of  English squad contenders  for the 1974 World Cup has a lot of dead players.  
 

Dead

Paul Madely 

Emlyn Hughes 

Colin Bell 

Norman Hunter

Martin Peters

Bobby Moore 

 Peter Osgood 

Alan Ball
 

Alive

Peter Shilton 

 Roy McFarland

Tony Currie 

Mick Channon 

Martin Chivers 

Allan Clarke 

Kevin Keegan 

Kevin Hector 

 

 

 

As an aside, amazing England didn't qualify with those players as some real quality there. 

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2 hours ago, Deathrace said:

As an aside, amazing England didn't qualify with those players as some real quality there. 

For 1974 they faced an inspired Polish keeper. Poland went on to the World Cup semifinals.

In 1978 they were in the same group as Italy and only one of them could qualify. Victims of the sixteen teams only World Cup format at the time.

 

Both their vanquishers did very well at those world cups. Italy were about ten minutes away from the final iirc. 

 

They finished second to Hungary in 1982 qualifying but by then it was twenty four teams at the cup so England made it through.

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2 hours ago, whoismakoto said:

It's possible that Burhan Sargun could die off-radar when Fenerbahçe says they no longer have updates on him.

https://fenerbahcetarihi.org/2023/01/canavar-burhan-roportaji/

 

Two things to take from that.

 

One, it's a fan club interview, not the official.club website, so it's the fan club that don't know how he is.

 

Two, Mehmet Dincer is dead (off radar, so your fears are justified) as Sargun is labelled as Fenerbache's oldest living player. Dincer, 5 years older, must have died.

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Inter legend Luis Suarez dead at 88.

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Update of the 1962 World Cup list

 

1962 – 69 survivors

Soviet Union

11            MF           Yozhef Sabo            1 March 1940 (aged 22)

 

Yugoslavia

11            FW          Josip Skoblar           12 March 1941 (aged 21)

15            MF           Željko Matuš           9 August 1935 (aged 26)

19            GK           Mirko Stojanović     11 June 1939 (aged 22)

21            FW          Nikola Stipić            18 December 1937 (aged 24)

 

Uruguay

7              FW          Domingo Pérez       7 June 1936 (aged 25)

8              MF           Julio César Cortés    29 March 1941 (aged 21)

12            GK           Luis Maidana          24 February 1934 (aged 28)

14            DF            Rubén Soria            23 January 1935 (aged 27)

16            DF            Rubén González      17 July 1939 (aged 22)

 

Colombia 

2              GK           Achito Vivas            1 March 1934 (aged 28)

12            MF           Hernando Tovar      7 June 1938 (aged 23)            

18            FW          Eusebio Escobar      2 July 1936 (aged 25) 

 

West Germany

3              DF            Karl-Heinz Schnellinger          31 March 1939 (aged 23)       

4              DF            Willi Schulz             4 October 1938 (aged 23)             

7              MF           Willi Koslowski        17 February 1937 (aged 25)

15            MF           Willi Giesemann     2 September 1937 (aged 24)

 

Chile

2              DF            Luis Eyzaguirre        22 June 1939 (aged 22)

4              DF            Sergio Navarro        20 November 1936 (aged 25)

12            GK           Adán Godoy            26 November 1936 (aged 25)

16            DF            Humberto Cruz       6 December 1939 (aged 23)

19            FW          Braulio Musso         24 May 1937 (aged 25)          

22            GK           Manuel Astorga      16 March 1943 (aged 19)

 

Italy

1              GK           Lorenzo Buffon (captain)        19 December 1929 (aged 32)

6              MF           Giovanni Trapattoni                17 March 1939 (aged 23)

8              FW          Humberto Maschio 20 February 1933 (aged 29)

9              FW          José Altafini            24 July 1938 (aged 23)

11            FW          Giampaolo Menichelli            29 June 1938 (aged 23)

13            GK           Enrico Albertosi      2 November 1939 (aged 22)   

14            FW          Gianni Rivera          18 August 1943 (aged 18)      

15            FW          Angelo Sormani      3 July 1939 (aged 22)

16            DF            Enzo Robotti           13 June 1935 (aged 26)

 

Switzerland                                                  

10            DF            Fritz Kehl 12 July 1937 (aged 24)

12            FW          Marcel Vonlanthen 8 September 1933 (aged 28)

19            FW          Gilbert Rey              30 October 1930 (aged 31)                    

 

Brazil

 11            FW          Pepe        25 February 1935 (aged 27)                   

17            MF           Mengálvio               17 December 1939 (aged 22)                 

18            FW          Jair da Costa            9 July 1940 (aged 21)

20            FW          Amarildo 29 June 1939 (aged 22)           

 

Czechoslovakia

2              DF            Jan Lála   10 September 1936 (aged 25)

7              MF           Jozef Štibrányi         11 April 1940 (aged 22)          

11            FW          Josef Jelínek            9 January 1941 (aged 21)

 

Mexico                               

 11            FW          Isidoro Díaz             14 March 1940 (aged 22)

15            DF            Ignacio Jáuregui      31 July 1938 (aged 23) 

21            FW          Alberto Baeza         6 December 1938 (aged 23)

 

Spain

1              GK           José Araquistáin     4 March 1937 (aged 25)         

2              GK           Salvador Sadurní     3 April 1941 (aged 21)           

3              GK           Carmelo  6 December 1930 (aged 31)                   

4              FW          Enrique Collar         2 November 1934 (aged 27)   

16            DF            Severino Reija         25 November 1938 (aged 23)   

18            MF           Adelardo 26 September 1939 (aged 22)                

19            DF            José Santamaría     31 July 1929 (aged 32)             

 

Hungary

17            FW          Gyula Rákosi           9 October 1938 (aged 23))

20            FW          László Bödör            17 August 1933 (aged 28)      

21            GK           Antal Szentmihályi  3 June 1937 (aged 24)

 

England

17            MF           Bryan Douglas         27 May 1934 (aged 28)           

19            FW          Alan Peacock           29 October 1937 (aged 24).

20            MF           George Eastham     23 September 1936 (aged 25)

 

Argentina

9              FW          Marcelo Pagani       19 August 1941 (aged 20)                      

10            FW          José Sanfilippo        4 May 1935 (aged 27)

14            DF            Alberto Mariotti      23 August 1935 (aged 26)

16            MF           Antonio Rattín        16 May 1937 (aged 25)                           

20            FW          Juan Carlos Oleniak 4 March 1942 (aged 20)                         

21            MF           Ramón Abeledo      29 April 1937 (aged 25) 

 

Bulgaria

4              MF           Stoyan Kitov            27 August 1938 (aged 23)      

5              DF            Dimitar Kostov        26 July 1936 (aged 25)

1              FW          Dimitar Yakimov     12 July 1941 (aged 20)            

12            DF            Dobromir Zhechev  12 November 1942 (aged 19)

22            FW          Georgi Nikolov        1 May 1931 (aged 31)

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Update of the 1966 World Cup :
 
1966 – 121 survivors - No records whether alive or dead: North Korea

 

Soviet Union

3            DF           Vladimir Ponomaryov            18 February 1940 (aged 26)

7            MF           Murtaz Khurtsilava            5 January 1943 (aged 23)

8            MF           Yozhef Sabo            1 March 1940 (aged 26)

10           DF           Vasiliy Danilov            13 May 1941 (aged 25)

14            MF           Giorgi Sichinava            15 September 1944 (aged 21)

17            FW           Valeriy Porkujan            4 October 1944 (aged 21)

19            FW           Eduard Malofeyev            2 June 1942 (aged 24)

20            FW           Eduard Markarov            20 June 1942 (aged 24)

21            GK           Anzor Kavazashvili            19 July 1940 (aged 25)

 

Uruguay

4              DF            Pablo Forlan         14 Julyy 1945 (aged 20)

7              MF           Julio César Cortés    29 March 1941 (aged 25)

8              FW           Jose Urruzmendi    25 August 1944 (aged 21)

11              FW          Domingo Pérez       7 June 1936 (aged 30)

18            FW            Milton Viera            11 May 1946 (aged 20)

21            MF            Victor Esparrago      6 October 1944 (aged 21)

 

West Germany

3              DF            Karl-Heinz Schnellinger          31 March 1939 (aged 27)       

5              DF            Willi Schulz             4 October 1938 (aged 27)             

6              DF           Wolfgang Weber       26 June 1944 (aged 22)

10            FW           Sigfried Held     7 August 1942 (aged 23)

12            MF           Wolfgang Overath  29 September 1943 (aged 22)

13             FW            Heinz Hornig          28 September 1937 (aged 28) 

15              DF           Bernd Patzke          14 March 1943 (aged 22)   

16              MF            Max Lorenz          19 August 1939 (aged 27)   

17              DF          Wolfgang Paul          25 January 1940 (aged 26)   

21              GK            Gunter Bernard          4 November 1939 (aged 26)   

23              GK           Sepp Maier          28 February 1944 (aged 22)   

 

Chile

1              FW            Pedro Araya        23 January 1942 (aged 24)

4             MF            Humberto Cruz       8 December 1939 (aged 27)

6              DF            Luis Eyzaguirre        22 June 1939 (aged 27)

7              DF            Elias Figueroa        25 November 1946 (aged 19)

9             GK           Adán Godoy            26 November 1936 (aged 29)

13            GK            Juan Olivares       20 February 1941 (aged 25)

14            MF          Ignacio Prieto         23 September 1943 (aged 23)     

21            DF            Hugo Villanueva       9 April 1939 (aged 27)      

22            GK           Guillermo Yavar      26 March 1943 (aged 23)

 

Italy

1            GK           Enrico Albertosi      2 November 1939 (aged 26)   

8              DF          Aristide Guarneri    7 March 1938 (aged 28)

10            FW          Antonio Juliano            1 January 1943 (aged 23)

14            FW          Sandro Mazzzola      8 November 1942 (aged 23)

18            GK         Pierluigi Pizzaballa      14 September 1939 (aged 26)

19            FW          Gianni Rivera          18 August 1943 (aged 22) 

 

Switzerland                                                  

7           MF          Hansruedi Fuhrer  24 December 1937 (aged 28)

12           GK          Leo Eichmann              24 December 1936 (aged 29)         

14           DF          Werner Leimgruber             2 September 1934 (aged 32)          

15           MF          Karl Odermatt             17 December 1942 (aged 23)

16           FW          Rene-Pierre Quentin              5 August 1943 (aged 22)

17           FW          Jean-Claude Schindenholz              11 October 1940 (aged 25)

19           MF          Xavier Stierli              29 October 1936 (aged 25)

22           GK          Mario Prosperi             4 August 1945 (aged 21)

 

Brazil

6             DF          Brito             9 August 1939 (aged 26)

8              DF          Paolo Henrique             5 January 1943 (aged 23)

   11            MF          Gerson        11 January 1941 (aged 25)                   

12            GK           Manga               26 April 1937 (aged 28)                 

13            MF          Denilson            28 March 1943 (aged 23)

14            MF          Lima            18 January 1942 (aged 24)                          

17            MF          Jairzinho     25 December 1944 (aged 21)

20           MF          Tostao              25 January 1947 (aged 19)

21           FW          Parana              21 March 1942 (aged 24)

22           FW          Edu              6 August 1949 (aged 16)

 

 

Mexico

5              DF            Ignacio Jáuregui      31 July 1938 (aged 27)                              

6             MF          Isidoro Díaz             14 March 1940 (aged 26)

9             FW           Ernesto Cisneros        26 October 1940 (aged 25)                          

11             FW           Francisco Jara      3 February 1941 (aged 25)                         

15            DF          Guillermo Hernandez         25 June 1942 (aged 24)

16            MF           Luis Regueiro      22 December 1943 (aged 22)   

18             MF            Elias Munoz      3 November 1941 (aged 24)     

20            FW           Enrique Borja      20 December 1945 (aged 20)      

22             GK            Javier Vargas      22 November 1941 (aged 24)          

 

Spain

1              GK           José Angel Iribar     1 March 1943 (aged 23)               

3              DF           Eladio  18 November 1940 (aged 25)                   

7              MF         Jose Ufarte         17 May 1941 (aged 25)   

9            FW          Marcelino              29 April 1940 (aged 31)  

13           GK          Miguel Reina              24 January 1946 (aged 20)  

15            DF            Severino Reija         25 November 1938 (aged 28)  

17            DF          Gallego              4 March 1944 (aged 22)  

18            MF          Pirri              11 March 1945 (aged 21)

21            MF           Adelardo 26 September 1939 (aged 26)                

           

Hungary

1            GK           Antal Szentmihályi  3 June 1937 (aged 27)

2            DF           Beno Kaposzta   7 June 1942 (aged 24)

11            FW          Gyula Rákosi           9 October 1938 (aged 27)

15            FW          Dezso Molnar            2 December 1939 (aged 26)      

19            FW           Lajos Puskas   3 August 1944  (aged 21)

20            FW           Antal Nagy  16 May 1944 (aged 22)

21            GK           Jozsef Gelei  29 June 1938 (aged 28)

 

England

10            FW            Geoff Hurst    8 December 1941 (aged 24)

19            FW           Terry Paine         23 March 1939 (aged 27)           

20            MF          Ian Callaghan           10 April 1942 (aged 24).

22            MF           George Eastham     23 September 1936 (aged 29)

 

Argentina

3              GK           Hugo Gatti   19 August 1944 (aged 21)

6              MF          Oscar Calics       19 August 1941 (aged 24)                      

10            MF           Antonio Rattín        16 May 1937 (aged 29)

13            DF            Nelson Lopez      24 June 1941 (aged 24)

15            MF          Jorge Solari    11 November 1941 (aged 24)  

19            FW          Luis Artime    2 December 1938 (aged 28)            

21            FW           Oscar Mas      29 April 1946 (aged 19)                          

 

Bulgaria

5            DF            Dimitar Penev  12 July 1945 (aged 20)

6            DF            Dobromir Zhechev  12 November 1942 (aged 23)

8              MF           Stoyan Kitov            27 August 1938 (aged 27)      

13              FW          Dimitar Yakimov     12 July 1941 (aged 24)       

18            MF           Evgeni Yanchovski  5 September 1939 (aged 26)

 

France

1            GK            Marcel Aubour  17 June 1940 (aged 26)

5            DF            Bernard Bosquier  19 June 1942 (aged 23)

8            FW            Nestor Combin  29 December 1940 (aged 25)

9            FW          Didier Couecou     25 July 1944 (aged 21)       

11           DF            Gabriel De Michele  6 March 1941 (aged 25)     

12            DF           Jean Djorkaeff  27 October 1939 (aged 26)

14           FW            Gerard Hausser  18 March 1939 (aged 27)

15           MF            Yves Herbet  17 August 1945 (aged 21)

17           MF            Lucien Muller  3 September 1934 (aged 31)

19           FW            Laurent Robuschi  5 October 1935 (aged 30)

21           GK            Georges Carnus  13 August 1942 (aged 23)

22           GK            Johnny Schuth  7 December 1941 (aged 24)

 

Portugal

3            GK            Jose Pereira  15 September 1931 (aged 34)

4             DF           Vicente            24 September 1935 (aged 30)      

7            FW            Ernesto Figueiredo  6 July 1937 (aged 29)

8            FW          Joao Lourenco     8 April 1942 (aged 24)       

9            MF            Hilario  19  March 1939 (aged 27)     

11           MF           Antonio Simoes  14 December 1943 (aged 22)

12           MF           Jose Augusto  13 April 1937 (aged 29)

14           MF            Fernando Cruz  12 August 1940 (aged 25)

21           DF           Jose Carlos  22 September 1941 (aged 25)

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