Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

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Brazil

Head coach: Cláudio Coutinho

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Carlos	March 4, 1956	20	35	Ponte Preta	5	0	437	1	0
2	DF	Rosemiro	February 22, 1954	22	?	Palmeiras	4	1	246	1	2	1 Yellow
3	DF	Tecão	May 10, 1952	24	?	São Paulo	4	0	332	0	1
4	DF	Edinho	June 5, 1955	22	56	Fluminense	5	0	450	0	0	2 Yellow
5	DF	Júnior	June 29, 1954	22	88	Flamengo	4	1	360	0	0
6	MF	Alberto Leguelé	Feb 28, 1953	25	?	Bahia	4	0	304	0	1
7	MF	Marinho	May 23, 1957	19	?	Santos FC	4	0	318	2	0	1 Yellow
8	MF	Batista	Mar 8, 1955	22	38	Internacional	5	0	450	0	0
9	MF	Eudes	April 8, 1955	21	?	Portuguesa	3	0	214	3	0
10	MF	Erivélto	July 10, 1954	22	?	Fluminense	5	1	450	0	0
11	MF	Santos	Jul 07, 1957	19	?	Santa Cruz	4	0	172	0	1
12	DF	Mauro Cabeção	April 23, 1955	21	?	Guarani	4	0	299	1	0
13	FW	Júlio César	March 3, 1956	20	?	Flamengo	1	0	172	1	0
14	FW	Chico Fraga	Oct 2, 1954	21	?	Internacional	4	1	360	0	0	1 Yellow
15	FW	Jarbas	Sep 17, 1957	18	?	America (RJ)	5	2	154	0	4
16	FW	Edval	Feb 17, 1954	22	?	Campo Grande	2	0	118	1	0
17	GK	Zé Carlos	April 29, 1955	21	?	Botafogo	1	0	13	0	1

Canada

Head coach: Colin Morris

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Jack Brand	Apr 4, 1953	23	?	Toronto Italia
2	MF	Bob Bolitho	Jul 20, 1952	24	?	London Boxing Club
3	DF	Ray Telford	Nov 23, 1946	29	?	Nanaimo United
4	DF	Kevin Grant	Oct 24, 1952	23	?	Hamilton Croatia
5	DF	Tony Lawrence	Feb 2, 1946	30	?	Serbian White Eagles
6	MF	Jimmy Douglas	Oct 6, 1948	27	?	St Catharine's Heidelberg
7	FW	John McGrane	Oct 12, 1953	22	?	Simon Fraser University
8	MF	Robin Megraw	Aug 9, 1950	25	?	First Portuguese
9	MF	Carl Rose	Nov 25, 1952	23	?	Toronto Emerald
10	DF	Peter Roe	Sep 23, 1955	20	?	Toronto Italia
11	FW	John Connor	Jun 8, 1953	23	?	New Westminster Blues
12	DF	Mike McLenaghen	Jun 10, 1950	26	?	Pegasus
13	GK	Tino Lettieri	Sep 27, 1957	18	?	Quebec Selects
14	MF	Wes McLeod	Oct 24, 1957	18	?	Coquitlam Blue Mountain
15	DF	Garry Ayre	Oct 2, 1953	22	?	New Westminster Blues
16	FW	Jim McLoughlin	Feb 5, 1957	19	?	Toronto Emerald
17	FW	Ken Whitehead	Apr 11, 1955	21	?	Simon Fraser University

Cuba

Head coach: Sergio Padrón

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	José Francisco Reinoso	May 20, 1950	26	?	Azucareros
2	DF	Lorenzo Sotomayor	February 2, 1949	27	?	Granjeros
3	DF	Luis Holmaza	September 12, 1949	26	?	Industriales
4	DF	Antonio Garcés	September 2, 1950	25	?	Granjeros
5	DF	René Bonora	January 21, 1951	25	?	Granjeros
6	MF	José Luis Elejalde	January 1951, 14	25	?	La Habana
7	FW	Andrés Roldán	February 28, 1950	26	?	Azucareros
8	MF	José Cepero	May 27, 1953	23	?	La Habana
9	FW	Dagoberto Lara	April 16, 1953	23	?	Azucareros
10	MF	Luis Hernández	Aug 24, 1949	26	?	La Habana
11	MF	Francisco Farinas	April 2, 1948	28	?	Industriales
12	FW	Roberto Pereira	September 23, 1954	22	?	Azucareros
13	DF	Miguel Rivero	March 14, 1952	26	?	La Habana
14	MF	Regino Delgado	September 7, 1956	20	?	Azucareros
15	FW	Jorge Massó	February 16, 1950	26	?	La Habana
16	GK	Fermín Maderos	November 24, 1951	24	?	Granjeros
17	FW	Carlos Loredo	October 14, 1951	24	?	La Habana

East Germany

Head coach: Georg Buschner

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Jürgen Croy	Oct 19, 1946	29	?	BSG Sachsenring Zwickau
2	DF	Gerd Weber	May 31, 1956	20	?	SG Dynamo Dresden
3	DF	Hans-Jürgen Dörner	Jan 25, 1951	25	?	SG Dynamo Dresden
4	DF	Konrad Weise	Aug 17, 1951	24	?	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
5	DF	Lothar Kurbjuweit	Nov 6, 1950	25	?	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
6	MF	Reinhard Lauck	Sep 16, 1946	29	?	BFC Dynamo
7	FW	Gerd Heidler	Jan 30, 1948	28	?	SG Dynamo Dresden
8	MF	Reinhard Häfner	Feb 2, 1952	24	?	SG Dynamo Dresden
9	FW	Hans-Jürgen Riediger	Dec 20, 1955	20	?	BFC Dynamo
10	MF	Bernd Bransch	Sep 24, 1944	31	?	Hallescher FC
11	FW	Martin Hoffmann	Mar 22, 1955	21	?	1. FC Magdeburg
12	DF	Gerd Kische	Oct 23, 1951	24	?	Hansa Rostock
13	FW	Wolfram Löwe	May 14, 1945	31	?	Lokomotive Leipzig
14	MF	Hartmut Schade	Nov 13, 1954	22	?	SG Dynamo Dresden
15	FW	Dieter Riedel	Sep 16, 1947	28	?	SG Dynamo Dresden
16	GK	Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin	Sep 2, 1943	32	?	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
17	DF	Wilfried Gröbner	Dec 18, 1949	25	?	Lokomotive Leipzig

France

Head coach: Gabriel Robert

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Jean-Claude Larrieu	Mar 23, 1946	30	?	AS Cannes
2	GK	Henri Orlandini	Aug 9, 1955	20	?	Nîmes Olympique
3	DF	Patrick Battiston	Mar 12, 1957	19	?	FC Metz
4	DF	Claude Chazottes	Jan 7, 1949	27	?	Paris FC
5	DF	Francis Meynieu	Jan 9, 1953	23	?	FC Girondins de Bordeaux
6	DF	Michel Pottier	Jan 12, 1948	28	?	Tours FC
7	DF	Alexandre Stassievitch	Sep 20, 1950	25	?	RC Lens
8	DF	Henri Zambelli	Mar 9, 1957	29	?	OGC Nice
9	MF	Michel Cougé	Jun 11, 1954	22	?	Stade Rennais FC
10	MF	Jean Fernandez	Oct 9, 1954	21	?	Olympique de Marseille
11	MF	Michel Platini	Jun 21, 1955	21	?	AS Nancy
12	MF	Francisco Rubio	Dec 6, 1953	22	?	AS Nancy
13	FW	Loïc Amisse	Aug 9, 1954	21	?	FC Nantes
14	FW	Bruno Baronchelli	Jan 13, 1957	19	?	FC Nantes
15	FW	Éric Pécout	Feb 17, 1956	20	?	FC Nantes
16	FW	Olivier Rouyer	Dec 1, 1955	21	?	AS Nancy
17	FW	Jean-Marc Schaer	Jan 1, 1953	23	?	AS Saint-Étienne

Guatemala

Head coach: Roberto Pineda

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Julio Rodolfo Garcia	November 23, 1945	30	?	Tiquisate FC
2	DF	Julio Gómez	October 28, 1954	21	?	Aurora
3	DF	Carlos Monterroso	July 28, 1948	27	?	Municipal
4	DF	Luis Villavicencio	February 3, 1950	26	?	Comunicaciones
5	DF	Allan Wellmann	May 26, 1954	22	?	Comunicaciones
6	MF	Edgar Bolaños	February 20, 1951	25	?	Comunicaciones
7	FW	Óscar Enrique Sánchez	July 15, 1955	21	?	Comunicaciones
8	MF	Benjamín Monterroso	September 1, 1952	23	?	Municipal
9	FW	Selvin Pennant	January 4, 1950	26	?	Aurora
10	MF	Jorge Hurtarte	April 23, 1945	31	?	Aurora
11	FW	René Morales	February 22, 1953	23	?	Xelajú
12	MF	Marco Fión	January 17, 1947	29	?	Aurora
13	FW	Julio César Anderson	November 27, 1947	28	?	Municipal
14	MF	Sergio Rivera	November 28, 1955	20	?	Comunicaciones
15	FW	Peter Sandoval	April 22, 1947	29	?	Comunicaciones
16	MF	Felix McDonald	June 26, 1954	22	?	Comunicaciones
17	GK	Ricardo Piccinini	Sep 7, 1949	26	?	Comunicaciones

Iran

Head coach: Heshmat Mohajerani

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Mansour Rashidi	Nov 12, 1948	28	?	Taj
2	DF	Hassan Nazari	Aug 19, 1956	19	?	Taj
3	DF	Andranik Eskandarian	Dec 31, 1951	24	?	Taj
4	DF	Bijan Zolfagharnassab	Jun 7, 1949	27	?	Persepolis
5	MF	Parviz Ghelichkhani	Dec 4, 1945	30	?	Daraei
6	MF	Ebrahim Ghasempour	Sep 11, 1957	18	?	Shahbaz
7	MF	Ali Parvin	Sep 25, 1947	28	?	Persepolis
8	DF	Nasrollah Abdollahi	Sep 2, 1951	25	?	Rah Ahan
9	FW	Nasser Nouraei	Jun 16, 1954	22	?	Homa
10	FW	Hassan Rowshan	Dec 31, 1956	21	?	Taj
11	FW	Alireza Khorshidi	May 16, 1951	25	?	Homa
12	MF	Hassan Nayebagha	Sep 17, 1950	25	?	Homa
13	FW	Gholam Hossein Mazloumi	Jan 13, 1950	26	?	Shahbaz
14	DF	Sahameddin Mirfakhraei	Feb 4, 1951	25	?	Homa
15	FW	Ghafour Jahani	Jun 19, 1951	25	?	Malavan
16	MF	Alireza Azizi	Jan 12, 1950	26	?	Persepolis
17	GK	Nasser Hejazi	Dec 19, 1949	26	?	Taj

Israel

Head coach: David Schweitzer

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Yitzhak Vissoker	Sep 18, 1944	31	?	Hapoel Petah Tikva	4
2	DF	Avraham Lev	Aug 24, 1948	27	?	Beitar Tel Aviv	2
3	MF	Yaron Oz	May 10, 1952	24	?	Maccabi Tel Aviv	3	1
4	DF	Haim Bar	May 14, 1954	22	4	Maccabi Netanya	4
5	MF	Moshe Schweitzer	Apr 24, 1954	22	?	Maccabi Tel Aviv	4
6	FW	Vicky Peretz	Feb 11, 1953	23	?	Maccabi Tel Aviv	4	2
7	MF	Itzhak Shum	Sep 1, 1948	27	?	Hapoel Kfar Saba	4	1
8	DF	Eli Leventhal	Mar 18, 1953	23	?	Hapoel Haifa	4
9	MF	Rifaat Turk	Sep 16, 1954	21	?	Hapoel Tel Aviv	2
10	FW	Gideon Damti	Oct 31, 1951	24	?	Shimshon Tel Aviv	4
11	GK	Yosef Sorinov	May 17, 1946	30	?	Hapoel Ramat Gan	0
12	DF	Meir Nimni	Sep 29, 1948	27	?	Maccabi Tel Aviv	4
13	FW	Oded Machnes	Jun 8, 1956	20	?	Maccabi Netanya	2
14	DF	Avi Cohen	Nov 14, 1956	19	?	Maccabi Tel Aviv	3
15	MF	Yehoshua Gal	Jul 11, 1951	25	?	Maccabi Netanya	1
16	FW	Ehud Ben Tuvim	Aug 12, 1952	23	?	Bnei Yehuda	0
17	DF	Alon Ben Dor	Mar 18, 1952	24	?	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	4

North Korea

Head coach: Pak Doo-Ik

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Jin In-Chol	Feb 2, 1948	28	?
2	DF	Kim Gwang-Sok	May 20, 1950	26	?
3	DF	Kim Il-Nam	Jul 1, 1954	22	?
4	DF	Kim Myong-Son	Jun 10, 1948	28	?	April 25
5	DF	Kim Jong-Min	Apr 19, 1947	29	?	April 25
6	MF	Kim Mu-Gil	Apr 1, 1950	26	?
7	MF	Ma Jong-U	Dec 9, 1947	28	?
8	MF	Pak Jong-Hun	Mar 10, 1948	28	?
9	FW	An Se-Uk	Oct 29, 1946	?	?	April 25
10	FW	Hong Song-Nam	Feb 12, 1947	29	?
11	MF	Cha Jong-Sok	Nov 26, 1949	26	?
12	MF	Kim Sung-Gyu	Mar 12, 1949	27	?
13	FW	Yang Song-Guk	Aug 18, 1944	?	?	April 25
14	DF	An Kil-Wan	Aug 8, 1948	28	?
15	FW	Li Hi-Yon	Nov 7, 1947	28	?
16	MF	Myong Dong-Chan	Jan 8, 1948	28	?	April 25
17	GK	Park Kyong-Won	Aug 19, 1946	30	?

Mexico

Head coach: Diego Mercado

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Javier Regalado	Dec 3, 1955	20	?	Monterrey
2	MF	Gabriel Márquez	Feb 12, 1956	20	?	Monterrey
3	DF	Eduardo Rergis	Apr 20, 1956	20	?	América
4	DF	Bardomiano Viveros	Jan 10, 1955	21	?	Cruz Azul
5	MF	Carlos García	Jul 3, 1958	18	?	Monterrey
6	DF	Ernesto De La Rosa	Sep 14, 1955	20	?	Puebla
7	FW	Héctor Tapia	Jul 11, 1957	19	?	Cruz Azul
8	MF	José Luis Caballero	Jun 21, 1955	21	?	Cruz Azul
9	FW	Víctor Rangel	Mar 11, 1957	19	?	Guadalajara
10	FW	Hugo Sánchez	Jul 11, 1958	18	?	UNAM
11	FW	Rafael Toribio	Aug 21, 1958	18	?	Cruz Azul
12	GK	José Gomez	Jan 14, 1955	21	?	Cruz Azul
13	DF	Antonio Hernández	Apr 1, 1955	21	?	UNAM
14	DF	Jorge López Malo	Aug 14, 1957	18	?	Cruz Azul
15	DF	Mario Carrillo	Feb 1, 1956	20	?	Cruz Azul
16	MF	Alfredo Navarrete	Mar 31, 1955	21	?	Puebla
17	MF	Guillermo Cosio	Sep 15, 1958	18	?	Zacatepec

Note:Selections Mexicans Olympic 1972 and 1976 consisted of 100% amateur players none were professional at that time

Poland

Head coach: Kazimierz Górski

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Jan Tomaszewski	Jan 9, 1948	26	38	ŁKS Łódź
2	DF	Antoni Szymanowski	Jan 13, 1951	25	51	Wisła Kraków
3	DF	Jerzy Gorgoń	Jul 18, 1949	27	46	Górnik Zabrze
4	DF	Wojciech Rudy	Oct 24, 1952	23	4	Zagłębie Sosnowiec
5	DF	Władysław Żmuda	Jun 6, 1954	22	23	Śląsk Wrocław
6	MF	Zygmunt Maszczyk	May 3, 1945	31	32	Ruch Chorzów
7	FW	Grzegorz Lato	Apr 8, 1950	26	38	Stal Mielec
8	MF	Henryk Kasperczak	Jul 10, 1946	30	37	Stal Mielec
9	MF	Kazimierz Deyna	Oct 23, 1947	28	71	KP Legia Warsaw
10	FW	Andrzej Szarmach	May 10, 1950	26	31	Stal Mielec
11	FW	Kazimierz Kmiecik	Sep 19, 1951	24	21	Wisła Kraków
12	GK	Piotr Mowlik	Apr 21, 1951	25	3	KP Legia Warsaw
13	DF	Henryk Wawrowski	Sep 25, 1949	25	16	Pogoń Szczecin
14	MF	Henryk Wieczorek	Dec 14, 1949	25	7	Górnik Zabrze
15	MF	Lesław Ćmikiewicz	Aug 25, 1948	27	48	KP Legia Warsaw
16	MF	Jan Benigier	Feb 18, 1950	26	3	Ruch Chorzów
17	FW	Roman Ogaza	Nov 17, 1952	24	4	GKS 71 Tychy

Spain

Head coach: Ladislao Kubala

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Luis Arconada	Jun 26, 1954	22	0	Real Sociedad	2	0	180
2	DF	Isidoro San José	Oct 27, 1955	21	0	Real Madrid C.F.	2	0	174	1
3	DF	Pedro Camus	Jul 13, 1955	21	1	Racing Santander	2	0	110	1
4	DF	Francisco Sanjosé	Nov 12, 1952	24	0	Sevilla FC	1	0	90
5	DF	Mariano Pulido	Aug 22, 1956	19	0	Sevilla FC	1	0	90
6	MF	José Vicente Sánchez	Oct 8, 1956	19	0	FC Barcelona	2	0	76		2
7	FW	Juanito	Nov 10, 1954	21	0	Burgos CF	2	0	148	1		1 yellow
8	MF	Enrique Saura	Aug 2, 1954	21	0	Valencia CF	2	0	180
9	FW	Santiago Idígoras	Jul 24, 1953	22	4	Real Sociedad	2	1	180
10	MF	Alberto Vitoria	Jan 11, 1956	20	0	Real Madrid C.F.	2	0	135	1
11	FW	Esteban Vigo	Jan 17, 1955	21	1	CD Málaga	2	0	180			1 yellow
12	DF	Cundi	Apr 13, 1955	21	0	Sporting de Gijón	1	0	90
13	GK	José Manzanedo	Feb 10, 1956	20	0	Burgos CF	0	0	0
14	DF	Antonio Olmo	Jan 18, 1954	22	0	FC Barcelona	2	0	180
15	MF	Francisco Javier Bermejo	Mar 9, 1956	20	0	Atlético Madrid	1	0	90
16	FW	Miguel Mir	Mar 24, 1956	20	0	FC Barcelona	1	0	45		1
17	FW	Juani	Oct 3, 1955	20	0	UD Las Palmas	1	0	32		1

Soviet Union

Head coach: Valeri Lobanovsky

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Vladimir Astapovskiy	Jul 16, 1946	30	?	PFC CSKA Moscow	5	0	450	0	0
2	DF	Anatoliy Konkov	Sep 19, 1949	27	?	FC Dynamo Kyiv	2	0	112	1	0
3	DF	Viktor Matvienko	Nov 9, 1948	27	?	FC Dynamo Kyiv	5	0	450	0	0
4	DF	Mikhail Fomenko	Sep 19, 1948	27	?	FC Dynamo Kyiv	5	0	302	0	3
5	DF	Stefan Reshko	Mar 24, 1947	29	?	FC Dynamo Kyiv	4	0	360	0	0
6	DF	Vladimir Troshkin	Sep 28, 1947	28	?	FC Dynamo Kyiv	5	0	445	0	0	2Y/1R
7	MF	David Kipiani	Nov 18, 1951	24	?	FC Dinamo Tbilisi	0	0	0	0	0
8	FW	Vladimir Onischenko	Oct 28, 1949	25	?	FC Dynamo Kyiv	5	3	291	3	1
9	MF	Viktor Kolotov	Jul 3, 1949	27	?	FC Dynamo Kyiv	5	2	450	0	0
10	MF	Vladimir Veremeyev	Nov 8, 1948	27	?	FC Dynamo Kyiv	4	1	248	1	1	2Y/1R
11	FW	Oleg Blokhin	Nov 5, 1952	23	?	FC Dynamo Kyiv	5	1	433	1	0
12	MF	Leonid Buryak	Jul 10, 1953	23	?	FC Dynamo Kyiv	5	0	425	1	0
13	DF	Vladimir Fyodorov	Jan 5, 1956	20	?	FC Pakhtakor Tashkent	4	0	151	0	3	1Y
14	MF	Aleksandr Minayev	Aug 11, 1954	21	?	FC Dynamo Moscow	5	1	450	0	0
15	DF	Viktor Zvyagintsev	Oct 22, 1950	25	?	FC Dynamo Kyiv	3	1	251	1	0	1Y
16	FW	Leonid Nazarenko	Mar 21, 1955	21	?	PFC CSKA Moscow	2	1	112	1	1
17	GK	Aleksandr Prokhorov	Jul 18, 1946	30	?	FC Spartak Moscow	0	0	0	0	0

References

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