Talk:1978 FIFA World Cup squads
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Requested move[edit]
Football World Cup 1978 (squads) → 1978 FIFA World Cup (squads) – following the consensus of naming the World Cup articles as FIFA World Cup in Wikipedia, and consistency of naming the major international football tournaments.
Discuss here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Competitions#Requested move of Football World Cup articles. --Pkchan 10:51, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Italy Squad[edit]
The numbers were given following this scheme:
1 - First Goalkeeper (Dino Zoff) 12 - Second Goalkeeper (Paolo Conti) 22 - Third Goalkeeper (Ivano Bordon)
2 to 9 - Defenders in alphabetical order
10 to 15 - Midfielders in alphabetical order
16 to 17 - Flankers in alphabetical order
18 to 21 - Forwards in alphabetical order
Lionello Manfredonia[edit]
His caps was left blank in the table but from his Italian Wikipedia page I discovered he had played 3 times before the 1978 World Cup (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionello_Manfredonia).Statto74 (talk) 13:08, 7 June 2017 (UTC)