1951 in association football
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The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1951 throughout the world.
Events
Winners club national championship
Argentina: Racing Club
England: Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
France: OGC Nice
A.C. Milan
Netherlands: PSV Eindhoven
CCA București
Spain: Atlético Madrid
West Germany: 1. FC Kaiserslautern
International tournaments
- Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina (25 February – 8 March 1951)
- Gold Medal: Argentina
- Silver Medal:
Costa Rica - Bronze Medal:
Chile
- Gold Medal:
- 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi, India (5 – 10 March 1951)
- 1950–51 British Home Championship (7 October 1950 – 14 April 1951)
Births
- 1 January – Dante Garro, Argentine club footballer and manager (died 2008)
- 18 January – Renato Zaccarelli, Italian international footballer and manager.[1]
- 14 February – Kevin Keegan, English international footballer and manager.[2]
- 21 February – Wolfgang Frank, German footballer and manager (died 2013)
- 4 March – Kenny Dalglish, Scottish international footballer and manager
- 11 April – Jim Holton, Scottish international footballer (died 1993)
- 2 June – Antonio Benítez, Spanish international footballer (died 2014)
- 21 September – Bruce Arena, American soccer player and coach.[3]
- 23 September – Harry Lubse, Dutch international footballer
- 12 October – István Halász, Hungarian international footballer (died 2016)
- 3 November – François Bracci, French international footballer
- 9 December – Dominique Dropsy, French international footballer (died 2015)
- 17 December – Jed Reilly, Scottish former footballer[4]
Deaths
January
- 26 January - Henri Bard, French footballer (born 1892)
May
- 9 May - Leo Bosschart, Dutch footballer (born 1888)
July
- 14 July - Ben Verweij (55), Dutch footballer (born 1895)
November
- 13 November – Walter de Souza Goulart, Brazilian goalkeeper, semi-finalist at the 1938 FIFA World Cup(born 1912)
Reference
- ^ "FIFA.com - FIFA Player Statistics: Renato ZACCARELLI". 2008-07-21. Archived from the original on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
- ^ "BBC SPORT | FOOTBALL | Kevin Keegan factfile". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
- ISBN 9780824211134.
- ^ "Jed Reilly". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 8 June 2024.