International Season 1976/ 77, Part 7 (January 1977)

January

In South America most of the teams played friendlies (vs. clubs as well) in preparation for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers.

Date: January 4, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Montevideo- Estadio Centenario   

Referee: -

Attendance: -

Uruguay 1-Ecuador 1 (???)

Date: January 9, 1977

Competition: FIFA World Cup Qualifier-African Zone-Group 12- Preliminaries for Zone 2

Venue: Tunis

Referee: Hungerbühler (Switzerland)

Attendance: -

Tunisia 1- Morocco 1 (???) (Tunisia won 4-3 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Photo From: Onze, Issue 19, July 1977

(January 9, 1977, World Cup Qualifier, Tunisia 1-Morocco 1)

Date: January 9, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Asunción

Referee: -

Attendance: -

Paraguay 2-Ecuador 0 (Colman, Aquino)

Date: January 11, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Algiers-Peti Yuli

Referee: Ahmed Kaid (Algeria)

Attendance:          20,000

Algeria 1-Bulgaria 1 (Griche / Dinko Dermendjiev 54)

Date: January 11, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance: -

Israel 2-Bayern Munich (West Germnay) 0 (Viki Peretz, Gidi Damti)

Date: January 12, 1977

Competition: Artigas Cup

Venue: Asunción

Referee: -

Attendance: -

Paraguay 1-Uruguay 1 (???)

Date: January 12, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Asunción   

Referee: -

Attendance: -

San Juan de E. (Paraguay) 1-Ecuador 0 (???)

Date: January 16, 1977

Competition: FIFA World Cup Qualifier-African Zone-Group 12- Preliminaries for Zone 2

Venue: Lome

Referee: N'Diaye (Senegal)

Attendance: -

Ghana 0-Guinea 2 (P.Cámara, S.Sylla)

Date: January 16, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Bogota

Referee: -

Attendance: -

Colombia 0-Ecuador 1 (Liciardi)

Date: January 20 (or 22), 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Carcas

Referee: -

Attendance: -

Venezuela 1-Ecuador 0 (Moss)

Date: January 23, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: São Paulo- Estadio Cicero Pompeu de Toledo (Estadio Morumbi)

Referee: Oscar Scolfaro (Brazil)

Attendance:          67,608

Brazil 1-Bulgaria 0 (Roberto Dinamite)

Date: January 23, 1977

Competition: Artigas Cup

Venue: Montevideo- Estadio Centenario

Referee: -

Attendance: -

Uruguay 2-Paraguay 1 (Juan Vicente Morales, Alberto Raúl Santelli / Rafael Villazán (or Villalba))

Date: January 25, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: São Paulo- Estadio Cicero Pompeu de Toledo (Estadio Morumbi)

Referee: Dulcídio Vanderlei Boschila (Brazil)

Attendance:          -

Brazil 2- São Paulo State Team (Brazil) 0 (Gil, Palhinha I)

Date: January 26, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Roma –Lo Stadio Olimpico

Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

Attendance: 25,000

Italy 2-Belgium 1 (Francesco Graziani 24, Walter Meeuws (Own Goal) 77 / Christian Piot 85 pen)

Photo From: La Nazionale Italiana, 1978

(Italy squad, January 26, 1977, Italy 2-Belgium 1)

Photo From: Azzurri, Storia della Nazionale di calcio tre volte campioni del Mondo, 1910-1983

(January 26, 1977, Italy 2-Belgium 1)

Date: January 26, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional

Referee: Martínez (Paraguay)

Attendance: 20,557

Chile 4-Paraguay 0 (Julio Crisosto 9, 35, 75, Manuel Rojas 19)

Date: January 26, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Quito

Referee: -

Attendance: -

Ecuador 4- Colombia 1 (Liciardi 2 goals –Villafuerte, Rhon / ?)

Date: January 26, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Tel Aviv- National Stadium -Ramat Gan

Referee: Jan Redelfs (West Germany)

Attendance: 7,000

Israel 1-Greece 1 (Moshe Schweitzer 13 / Maik Galakos 1)

Date: January 28, 1977

Competition: FIFA World Cup Qualifier-Asia-Group 13-First Round-Group 3

Venue: Damascus

Referee: Fratz (France)

Attendance:  -

Syria 0-Iran 1 (Ali Parvin)

Date: January 30, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Rio de Janeiro - Estádio do Maracanã- Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho

Referee: José Roberto Wright (Brazil)

Attendance:          -

Brazil 1- Flamengo / Fluminense XI (Brazil) 1 (Palhinha I / Carlos Alberto Pintinho)

Date: January 30, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Levkosia (Nicosia)-GSP "Gymnastikos Sullogos ta Pagkypria"

Referee: Sotos Afxentiou (Cyprus) 

Attendance:          15,000

Cyprus 1-Bulgaria 2 (Gregory Savva 24 / Pavel Panov 59, Kiril Milanov 65)

Date: January 30, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Bogotá, Estadio Distrital Nemesio Camacho ‘El Campin’

Referee: Mario Canessa (Chile)

Attendance: 35,000

Colombia 0-Yugoslavia 1 (Dusan Bajevic 17)

Date: January 30, 1977

Competition: Juan Pinto Durán Cup

Venue: Montevideo- Estadio Centenario

Referee: Ángel Norberto Coerezza (Argentina)

Attendance: 20,000

Uruguay 3-Chile 0 (Nittder Pizzani 53, Fernando Morena 62, Darío Pereyra 75)

Date: January 30, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Banjul -Box Bar Stadium      

Referee: ??? (Gambia)

Attendance:          2,000

Gambia 1-Denmark 4 (Ndow Jie 6 / Johnny Hansen 5, Jan Sørensen (Frem) 60 pen, Allan Hansen 77, Gert Jørgensen 87)

Date: January 30, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Guayaquil

Referee: -

Attendance: -

Ecuador 2-CA Independiente (Aragentina) 2 (???)

Date: January 31, 1977

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Mar del Plata

Referee: -

Attendance: -

Argentina 2-Newell’s Old Boys (Argentina) 2 (Ricardo Villa 60, Humberto Bravo 89 / ??)