Talk:1978 FIFA World Cup squads

Requested move
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. --Pkchan 10:51, 4 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Moved per consensus. --Pkchan 14:03, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Italy Squad
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
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)