March
The African Nations Cup took place in Ghana and
the hosts were triumphant. Brazil and Argentina started their preparations with
many friendlies.
Tore Roeste Fossen managed Norway for the first time in a
friendly vs. Spain. He would remain in his post for a decade.
Date:
March 4, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Mar del Plata
Attendance:
Argentina
0-Uruguay XI 0
Date:
March 4, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Gzira, Empire Stadium
Attendance:
2,124
Malta
1-Tunisia ‘B’ 0 (Oliver Losco 7)
Date:
March 5, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Group A
Venue:
Accra, Ghana
Attendance:
Ghana
2-Zambia 1 (Afriye 21, Abdul Razak 55 / Kapita 8)
Date:
March 5, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Group A
Venue:
Accra, Ghana
Attendance:
Nigeria
4-Upper Volta 2 (Chukwu 17, Adekiye 31, Odegbami 44, 82 / Hien 50, Koita 52)
Date:
March 6, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Group B
Venue:
Kumasi, Ghana
Attendance:
Morocco
1-Tunisia 1 (Acila 29 / Kaabi 63)
Date:
March 6, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Group B
Venue:
Kumasi, Ghana
Attendance:
Uganda
3-Congo 1 (Omondi 1, Semwanga 31, Kisitu 81/ Mamounoubala 80)
Date:
March 7, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Attendance:
Israel
1- IK Skovbakken (Denmark) 1 (Shalom Avitan / ???)
Date:
March 8, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Group A
Venue:
Accra, Ghana
Attendance:
Zambia
2-Upper Volta 0 (P.Phiri 20, B.Phiri 88)
Date:
March 8, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Group A
Venue:
Accra, Ghana
Attendance:
Ghana
1-Nigeria 1 (Kluste 76 / Odegbami 33)
Date:
March 8, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Karl-Marx-Stadt, Ernst-Thälmann-Stadion
Attendance:
28,000
East
Germany 3-Switzerland 1 (Hans-Jurgen Riediger 4, Martin Hoffmann 25, 40 /
Claudio Sulser 32)
Date:
March 8, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Paris
Attendance:
France
2-Portugal 0 (Bruno Baronchelli 9, Marc Berdoll 40)
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 27, March 1978
(March 8, 1978, France 2-Portugal 0)
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 27, March 1978
(March 8, 1978, France 2-Portugal 0)
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 27, March 1978
(France squad, March 8, 1978, France 2-Portugal 0)
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Date: March 8, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Frankfurt –Waldstadion
Attendance:
55,000
West
Germany 1-USSR 0 (Rolf Rüssmann 47)
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Photo From: Chronik des deutschen fussballs, 2005
(March 8, 1978, West Germany 1-USSR 0)
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Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Daniel Antonio Escobar Riquelme)
(West Germany squad, Top, left to right: Hans-Hubert ‘Berti’ Vogts , Josef ‘Sepp’ Maier, Rolf Rüssmann, Manfred Kaltz, Rainer Bonhof, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Bernhard Dietz, Rudiger Abramczik, Klaus Fischer, Bernd Hölzenbein, Heinz Flohe, March 8, 1978, West Germany 1-USSR 0)
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Date:
March 9, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Group B
Venue:
Kumasi, Ghana
Attendance:
Tunisia
3-Uganda 1 (Labidi 36, Ben Aziza 38, 83 / Musenze 71)
Date:
March 9, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Group B
Venue:
Kumasi, Ghana
Attendance:
Morocco
1-Congo 0 (Acila 28)
Date:
March 10, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Group A
Venue:
Accra, Ghana
Attendance:
Zambia
0-Nigeria 0
Date:
March 10, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Group A
Venue:
Accra, Ghana
Attendance:
Ghana
3-Upper Volta 0 (Alhassan 3, 59, Mohammed)
Date:
March 11, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Group B
Venue:
Kumasi, Ghana
Attendance:
Congo
0-Tunisia 0
Date:
March 11, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Group B
Venue:
Kumasi, Ghana
Attendance:
Uganda
3-Morocco 0 (Kisitu 13, Nsereko 32, Omondi 36)
Date:
March 12, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Niterói – Estádio Caio Martins
Attendance:
Brazil
7- Rio de
Janeiro State Countryside XI 0 (Zico (5 goals), Nunes, Roberto Rivellino)
Date:
March 14, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Semifinals
Venue:
Accra, Ghana
Attendance:
Ghana
1-Tunisia 0 (Abdul Razak 57)
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Photo From: Mondial, old series, Issue 15, April 1978
(March 14, 1978, African Nations Cup, Ghana 1-Tunisia 0)
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Date:
March 14, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Semifinals
Venue:
Kumasi, Ghana
Attendance:
Uganda
2-Nigeria 1 (Nasur 11, Omondi 58 / Martin Eyo 54)
Date:
March 16, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Third Place
Venue:
Accra, Ghana
Attendance:
Tunisia
1-Nigeria 1 (Tunisia walked off 42nd minute, Nigeria awarded 2-0)
Date:
March 16, 1978
Competition:
African Nations Cup-Final
Venue:
Accra, Ghana
Attendance:
Ghana
2-Uganda 0 (Opoku Afriye 38, 64)
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Photo From: Mondial, old series, Issue 15, April 1978
(March 16, 1978, African Nations Cup, Ghana 2-Uganda 0)
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Photo From: Mondial, old series, Issue 15, April 1978
(March 16, 1978, African Nations Cup, Ghana 2-Uganda 0)
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 28, April 1978
(March 16, 1978, African Nations Cup, Ghana 2-Uganda 0)
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 28, April 1978
(March 16, 1978, African Nations Cup, Ghana 2-Uganda 0)
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 28, April 1978
(both squads, March 16, 1978, African Nations Cup, Ghana 2-Uganda 0)
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Date:
March 19, 1978
Competition:
Castilla Cup
Venue:
Buenos Aires, Coliseum Boca (La Bombonera) (Club Atlético Boca Juniors)
Attendance:
45,000
Argentina
2-Peru 1 (René Houseman 41, Rubén Paganini 66 / Percy Rojas
88)
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Photo From: Mondial, old series, Issue 15, April 1978
(March 19, 1978, Castilla Cup, Argentina 2-Peru 1)
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Photo From: Mondial, old series, Issue 15, April 1978
(March 19, 1978, Castilla Cup, Argentina 2-Peru 1)
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Photo From: Mondial, old series, Issue 15, April 1978
(Argentina squad, March 19, 1978, Castilla Cup, Argentina 2-Peru 1)
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 29, May 1978
(Argentina squad, March 19, 1978, Castilla Cup, Argentina 2-Peru 1)
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 29, May 1978
(March 19, 1978, Castilla Cup, Argentina 2-Peru 1)
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 29, May 1978
(March 19, 1978, Castilla Cup, Argentina 2-Peru 1)
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Photo From: kicker_WM-Sonderheft_1978
(Argentina squad, March 19, 1978, Castilla Cup, Argentina 2-Peru 1)
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Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer
(Peru squad, March 19, 1978, Castilla Cup, Argentina 2-Peru 1)
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Date:
March 19, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Goiânia – Estádio Serra Dourada
Attendance:
Brazil
3- Goiás State
Team XI 1 (Reinaldo I, Zico, Tarciso / Rinaldo)
Date:
March 22, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Charleroi - Stade Communal du pays de Charleroi
Attendance:
5,000
Belgium
1-Austria 0 (Willy Geurts 40)
Date:
March 22, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Curitiba – Estadio Major Antônio Couto Pereira
Attendance:
Brazil
1- Paraná
State XI 1 (Nunes)
Date:
March 22, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Thessaloniki- Kaftantzoglio (Iraklis)
Attendance:
15,000
Greece
0-Czechsolovakia 1 (Karel Kroupa 41)
Date:
March 22, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Letzebuerg (Luxembourg)-Stade Municipal de Luxembourg
Attendance:
3,000
Luxembourg
1-Poland 3 (Jeannot Reiter 85 / Włodzimierz Lubański 2, Andrzej Szarmach 7, 80)
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Photo From: Mondial, old series, Issue 18, May 1978
(March 22, 1978, Luxembourg 1-Poland 3)
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Photo From: kicker_WM-Sonderheft_1978
(Poland squad, March 22, 1978, Luxembourg 1-Poland 3)
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Date:
March 22, 1978
Competition:
Balkan Cup
Venue:
İstanbul –Ismet İnönü Stadyumu
Attendance:
10,000
Turkey
1-Romania 1 (Sedat Özden 15 / Dudu Georgescu 80)
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Photo From: Mondial, old series, Issue 17, May 1978
(March 22, 1978, Balkan Cup, Turkey 1-Romania 1)
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Date:
March 23, 1978
Competition:
Castilla Cup
Venue:
Lima- Estadio Nacional José Diaz
Attendance:
35,000
Peru
1- Argentina 3 (Juan Oblitas 53 / Leopoldo Luque 7, Daniel Passarella 25 pen, René Houseman 29)
Date:
March 29, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Buenos Aires, Coliseum Boca (La Bombonera) (Club Atlético Boca Juniors)
Attendance:
60,000
Argentina
3-Bulgaria 1 (Americo Gallego 9, Oscar Ortiz 13, Osvaldo Ardiles 66 / Nikolai
Grancharov 35)
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Photo From: El Grafico Nª 3052 04-04-1978
(March 29, 1978, Argentina 3-Bulgaria 1)
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Photo From: El Grafico Nª 3052 04-04-1978
(March 29, 1978, Argentina 3-Bulgaria 1)
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Photo From: El Grafico Nª 3052 04-04-1978
(March 29, 1978, Argentina 3-Bulgaria 1)
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Date: March 29, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Gijon-Estadio El Molinon
Attendance:
25,000
Spain
3-Norway 0 (Quini 6, Villar 22, Dani 60)
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Photo From: Todo Sobre La Seleccion Espanola, Flix Martialay, 2006
(Spain squad, March 29, 1978, Spain 3-Norway 0)
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Date:
March 31, 1978
Competition:
Friendly
Venue:
Caracas
Attendance:
Venezuela
0-China 1
( ?????)
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