The following are the association football events of the year 1979 throughout the world.
Events
Winners club national championship
Asia
Europe
North and Central America
Oceania
South America
International tournaments
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Births
- January 2 – Jonathan Greening, English footballer and coach
- January 4 – Shergo Biran, German footballer
- January 12 – Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
- January 15 – Martin Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
- January 26 – Maksym Kalynychenko, Ukrainian footballer
- January 30 – Possato (Alan dos Santos Possato), Brazilian footballer
- February 2 – Daniel Bierofka, German footballer
- February 4 – Dida, Brazilian footballer
- February 13 – Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
- February 19 – Steve Cherundolo, American soccer player
- February 20 – Denis Fladung, former Russian professional footballer
- March 2 – Damien Duff, Irish footballer
- March 4 – Vyacheslav Malafeev, Russian footballer
- March 14 – NeftalÃÂ Luna, Spanish retired footballer
- March 22 – Aldo Duscher, Argentine footballer
- April 3 – Christoph Spatzenegger, Austrian footballer
- April 5 – Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
- April 12 – Tobias Linderoth, Swedish footballer
- April 20 – Ludovic Magnin, Swiss footballer
- April 26 – Fereydoon Zandi, Iranian-German footballer
- May 2 – Michael Brunswijk, Dutch former footballer
- May 11 – Tomás Jiménez, Spanish retired footballer
- May 19
- Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer
- Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
- May 25 – Marek Klimczok, Polish former professional footballer
- May 29 – Arne Friedrich, German footballer
- May 30 – Fabian Ernst, German footballer
- May 31 – Jean-Pascal Biezen, Dutch retired professional footballer
- June 4 – Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer
- June 7 – Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer
- June 19 РJos̩ Kleberson, Brazilian footballer
- July 14 – Sergei Ignashevich, Russian footballer
- July 16 РJo̩ Flick, Luxembourgian footballer
- July 26 – Paul Freier, German footballer
- July 27 – Antonio Sarmiento, Spanish footballer
- August 7 – Pablo Salinas, Bolivian footballer
- August 12 РJ̼nior Izaguirre, Honduran footballer
- August 27 – Thierry Bayock, Cameroonian footballer
- August 28 – Bojan Gojak, Serbian former footballer
- August 29 – Amjad Al-Shuaibi, Jordanian footballer
- September 10 – Raúl Gaitán, Spanish retired footballer
- September 11
- Eric Abidal, French footballer
- Leon Cort, English footballer
- David Pizarro, Chilean footballer
- September 13 – Julio de León, Honduran footballer
- September 15 – Dadash Kazikhanov, former Russian professional footballer
- October 8 – Doyle Vaca, Bolivian footballer
- October 9 – Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
- October 15 – Paul Robinson, English footballer
- October 18 – Jaroslav Drobny, Czech footballer
- October 22 – Alex Matshameko, Motswana former footballer
- October 23 – Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
- October 30 – Simone Berardi, Italian former footballer
- November 2 – Marián ÃÂiÃ
¡ovský, Slovak footballer (d. 2020)
- November 5
- Patrick Owomoyela, German footballer
- David Suazo, Honduran footballer
- November 15 – Rowan Hendricks, South African footballer
- November 19 – Bentley Springer, Barbadian footballer
- November 20 – Dmitri Bulykin, Russian footballer
- November 21 – Vincenzo Iaquinta, Italian footballer
- December 7 – Diego Bengolea, Bolivian footballer
- December 14
- Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer
- Michael Owen, English footballer
- December 20 – Ashley Cole, English footballer
- December 26 – Stephano Wooding, Dutch former professional footballer
- December 30 – Hernán Boyero, Argentine footballer
Deaths
February
April
- April 11 â Mohamed Akid, Tunisian forward, capped 52 times for the Tunisia national football team. (29)
- April 18 â Pedro Arico Suárez, Argentine defender, runner up of the 1930 FIFA World Cup . (70)
- April 19 â August Sackenheim, German forward, capped 4 times for the Germany national football team. (73)
- April 22 â Amedeo Biavati, Italian midfielder, winner of the 1938 FIFA World Cup. (64)
- April 30 â Jaap Bulder, Dutch forward, bronze medalist at the 1920 Summer Olympics. (82)
July
August
December
Movies
References