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2 unusual facts about 1958 FIFA World Cup


Eddie Hopkinson

He earned 14 caps for the England national football team from 1957 to 1959, and was England's reserve goalkeeper at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Wales national football team manager

Jimmy Murphy is the only manager to have taken the team to any FIFA World Cup or European Championship finals, he managed to qualify for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, they reached the quarter-finals before being knocked by Brazil.


1957–58 in Belgian football

The Belgium national football team finished their 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign in the second place of Group 2, 2 points behind France, and thus did not qualify for the World Cup finals in Sweden.

Football in Argentina

Copa Suecia Only played in 1958, which was held when the league was interrupted by the 1958 World Cup and was won by Atlanta.

Jaime Belmonte

Jaime Belmonte Magdaleno (8 October 1934 – 21 January 2009), was a Mexican footballer, known as El Flaco (The Slim Man), He was also called El héroe de Solna (The hero of Solna), in reference to his goal scored vs Wales in the city of Solna during the 1958 World Cup earning Mexico's first point in a world cup.

Maurice Guigue

Maurice Alexandre Guigue (August 4, 1912 – February 27, 2011) was a football referee from France, who led the 1958 FIFA World Cup Final in Stockholm, Sweden.

Oreco

Valdemar Rodrigues Martíns, best known as Oreco, (born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, June 13, 1932 – April 3, 1985 in Ituverava, São Paulo) was an association footballer who was on the winning team of the 1958 FIFA World Cup.


see also

Richard Keith

Dick Keith, footballer who most famously played for Newcastle United and was member of the Northern Ireland 1958 FIFA World Cup team