1972 in association football

- [UEFA European Football Championship](1972-uefa-european-football-championship) in Belgium (June 14 – 18 1972) 1. 1. 1. - Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany (August 26 – September 10, 1972) 1. 1. 1. and ## Births - January 1 - Christos Kiourkos, retired Greek footballer - Lilian Thuram, French international footballer - January 2 – Eduardo Pereira, Timorese footballer - January 3 – Manuel Martínez, Mexican international footballer - January 5 – Richard Sosa, Uruguayan former footballer - January 8 - Paul Clement, English footballer, coach, and manager - Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer - Esteban Valencia, Chilean international footballer - January 11 – Huub Loeffen, Dutch footballer - January 16 - Ruben Bagger, Danish footballer - Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov, Russian footballer - Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer - Alen Peternac, Croatian footballer - January 29 - Artur Belotserkovets, Russian former professional footballer - Joseph Oosting, Dutch footballer - February 11 – Steve McManaman, English international footballer - February 20 – Andrei Nemykin, Russian footballer - March 2 – Mauricio Pochettino, Argentine football player and manager - March 3 - Darren Anderton, English international footballer - Karel Poborský, Czech international footballer - March 17 - Mia Hamm, American women's soccer player - Antonis Papadimitriou, retired Greek footballer - March 23 – Daniel Prodan, Romanian international footballer (died 2016) - March 28 – Péter Lipcsei, Hungarian footballer - March 29 – Rui Costa, Portuguese footballer - April 28 – Jean-Paul van Gastel, Dutch footballer - April 28 – Wilmer Velásquez, Honduran international footballer - May 8 – José Alberto Guadarrama, Mexican footballer - May 10 – Radosław Majdan, Polish goalkeeper - May 13 – Gytis Padimanskas, Lithuanian professional footballer - June 15 – Marcus Hahnemann, American soccer player - June 23 – Zinedine Zidane, French international footballer - August 7 – Goran Vlaović, Croatian footballer - August 30 – Pavel Nedvěd, Czech international footballer - September 8 – Markus Babbel, German international footballer and manager - September 9 – Alexandre Clot, retired Swiss footballer - September 10 – João Carlos dos Santos, Brazilian international footballer - September 10 – Mariano Bombarda, Spanish footballer - September 29 – Björn Arens, retired German footballer - October 1 – Jean Paulo Fernandes, Brazilian footballer - October 2 – Jacob Eli Olsen, Faroese former footballer - October 11 – Hajnalka Sipos, Hungarian footballer - November 2 – Derlis Gómez, Paraguayan footballer - November 2 – Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer - November 4 – Luís Figo, Portuguese international footballer - November 11 – Nurmat Mirzabaev, Kazakhstani footballer - December 11 – Andriy Husin, Ukrainian international footballer and coach (died 2014) - December 16 – Aleksei Morochko, former Russian footballer - December 22 – Claudio Guerra, former Uruguayan footballer - December 29 – Losseni Konaté, Ivorian footballer - December 31 – Roberto Baldassari, retired Swiss footballer ## Deaths - June 9 – Caesar ten Cate, Dutch international footballer (born 1890) - September 16 – Jan de Natris (76), Dutch international footballer (born 1895) ## References ## References 1. ["Christos Kiourkos"](https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe491598/christos-kiourkos/). *HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG*. 2. ["Richard Sosa"](http://www.tenfieldigital.com.uy/TenfielDigital/servlet/hprfchjug?0,1655,,1,146). *Tenfield Digital*. 3. ["Artur Belotserkovets"](https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe670200/artur-belotserkovets/). *HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG*. 4. ["Mia Hamm {{!}} Biography & Facts {{!}} Britannica"](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mia-Hamm). 5. {{WorldFootball.net. antonis-papadimitriou 6. ["Gytis Padimanskas"](https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe57892/gytis-padimanskas/). *HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG*. 7. ["Alexandre Clot"](https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe230064/alexandre-clot/). *HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG*. 8. ["Björn Arens"](https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe41838/bjoern-arens/). *HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG*. 9. ["Jacob Olsen"](https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe93563/jacob-olsen/). *HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG*. 10. ["Hajnalka Šipoš"](https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe269901/hajnalka-sipos/). *HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG*. 11. ["Aleksei Morochko"](https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe676816/aleksei-morochko/). *HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG*. 12. ["Claudio Guerra"](https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe350143/claudio-guerra/). *HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG*. 13. ["Roberto Baldassari"](https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe94517/roberto-baldassari/). *HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG*. ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_in_association_football) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. 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