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Below are the rosters for the 1978 FIFA World Cup tournament in Argentina.
[edit] Group 1
Head coach: César Luis Menotti
Note that this squad is numbered alphabetically by surname, unlike traditional numbering systems where the goalkeeper has shirt number 1 and so forth.
Head coach: Michel Hidalgo
Head coach: Lajos Baróti
Head coach: Enzo Bearzot
[edit] Group 2
Head coach: José Antonio Roca
Head coach: Jacek Gmoch
Head coach: Abdelmajid Chetali
Head coach: Helmut Schön
[edit] Group 3
Head coach: Helmut Senekowitsch
Head coach: Cláudio Coutinho
Head coach: Ladislao Kubala
Head coach: Georg Ericson
[edit] Group 4
Head coach: Heshmat Mohajerani
Head coach: Ernst Happel
Jan Jongbloed wore number 8 because some of the players who had been in the Dutch squad at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, where the Netherlands used a purely alphabetical numbering system, were given the same numbers again in 1978. Hugo Hovenkamp withdrew from the squad before the tournament began, but after the deadline for naming replacement players had passed. The Netherlands thus went to the World Cup with only 21 players.
Head coach: Marcos Calderón
Head coach: Ally MacLeod
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